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they say the sun would explode in about 5 billion years, how come the stars don't explode they just fall..

2007-03-14 04:40:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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all stars are not a Sun. The Sun is a name that we have given the star in our solar system.
All stars super nova (explode) at the end of their life. This is caused by their cores collapsing and the gasses on the surface exploding.
Falling stars are not actually stars at all. It is just a name given to a meteor streaking across our atmosphere causing the appearance of stars falling.

2007-03-14 04:49:29 · answer #1 · answered by wanna_be_md 3 · 0 1

All stars are like the sun.

The 'falling stars' we see are really bits of dust entering our atmosphere at very high speeds, heating up & usually burning out as they go.

A few rocks are large enough that they can actually survive the melting & heating and land on Earth's surface, but the smaller bits we see are as small as the head of a pin.

2007-03-14 04:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0 0

Stars don't fall. What people call falling stars are rocks burning up in the atmosphere.

2007-03-14 04:43:14 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 1 0

"Falling stars" are misnamed. A falling star is actuallt a comet or meteor falling into our atmosphere. That bright streak of light you see is the rock burning as it passes through our atmosphere.

2007-03-14 04:45:38 · answer #4 · answered by andrea_bocelli_fan1 3 · 0 0

The falling stars are not stars they are asteroids. Stars don't fall.

2007-03-14 06:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by Raven 3 · 0 0

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