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2007-05-07 12:48:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Sort of. Medium stars gradually swell up as they start to run out of fuel, and then collapse. Sort of a slow motion explosion, if you want to think of it that way.
2007-05-07 13:06:07 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Our sun will sputter through a white dwarf phase after having spend a few million years as a red giant, 4 to 5 billion years from now.
The sun does not have the mass to go supernova, it would have to be about twice as heavy or more.
2007-05-07 19:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our planet will be swallowed up by our Sun long before we have to worry about the Sun going boom. And long before it is swallowed up it will be uninhabitable as the conditions to sustain life leave our world behind. One crisis at a time, just take a number.
2007-05-07 20:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by Glytch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way..! Our sun would have to be at least 1.5 times more massive to go "kaboom!"
2007-05-07 20:04:49 · answer #4 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not any time soon.
2007-05-07 20:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋