• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not to be that guy… But stars and planets definitely have the potential to affect all of our lives, just not in any positive w-- the sun goes supernova

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      1 year ago

      Our sun will never go supernova because it’s too small for that. As hydrogen runs out, it will grow to a red giant by burning off the helium it produced and will expand to about Mars’ orbit. When the helium runs out too, it will then collapse to a white dwarf and release dust clouds into what formerly was our solar system and then it just huffs out like a candle in the wind.

      To go supernova, our sun would need about 10 times its mass.