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No. The Sun is the wrong kind of star to become a nova or supernova.

It will turn into a red giant star in about 4,500,000,000 (four and a half billion) years though.

2007-06-18 17:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 0

No. The sun and stars like it will never become a supernova. The reason for this is that they simply are not big enough and do not burn enough hydrogen. It will however (as the hydrogen in the sun becomes to disappear completely) become something called a Red Giant. This means the sun will expand greatly, most likely engulfing earth in a dim expansion. The sun will then shrink again as gravity always wins in the end and become something called a white dwarf. A very dim, high energy/radiation type of star.

2007-06-18 17:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by Walter . 2 · 0 0

It can't. For a star to go supernova, it must be significantly more massive than the Sun. It will, however, become a red giant in around 5 billion years.

2007-06-18 17:44:28 · answer #3 · answered by clitt1234 3 · 0 0

not adequate mass. The sunlight's center fuses hydrogen into helium to generate power. whilst the hyrogen is long gone the middle will contract and fuse helium into carbon and oxygen. The center won't have the mass to generate adequate rigidity to fuse carbon and oxygen, yet will particularly settle right into a state of electron degeneracy. The center of a extra physically powerful mass famous person will exceed the full mass of our sunlight, and initiate fusing carbon into neon whilst this is compressed to a length slightly extra desirable than the earth. Fusion will proceed till iron is reached, and the middle will implode because of the fact iron is the decrease of power which could be attained with the aid of fusion. The shockwave of the imploding center will explode the famous person's outer layers.

2016-10-17 23:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

No. The sun would need to be many times larger for that to happen. The biggest it will reach is a red giant, before ejecting matter into space and dwindling down to a white dwarf.

2007-06-18 17:23:08 · answer #5 · answered by Me 6 · 0 0

possible that or a white dwarf but only after it becomes a red giant which would signal the beginning of the end of the suns life but that wount happen for a few a few billion years by then humans will most likely be extincted

2007-06-18 17:20:07 · answer #6 · answered by LUCKY 2 · 0 0

No, Are sun won't go super nova due to the fact that it doesn't have enough fuel, What it will do however, is go red giant, engulfing all the inner planets up to mars, after the red giant stage, are sun will shrink back down into a white drawf.

2007-06-18 17:21:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

no, if you watch the discovery channel, there was a special on it. but in about 5 billion years it will just baloon into a red giant engulfing the closest planets possibly stopping just before earth, than die down into a white dwarf where it will just burn off any residual fuel for another millions of years than completely extinguish.

2007-06-18 17:44:46 · answer #8 · answered by this g 2 · 0 0

all stars reach that time in their life, but current research shows that for the size of the sun(star) it will be another 10 billion years before it completely finishes the "Main Sequence" of it's life.

hope I could answer your question.

2007-06-18 17:20:03 · answer #9 · answered by Neonkttie 3 · 1 0

No, our sun is not massive enough.

2007-06-22 06:30:01 · answer #10 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0 0

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