ANSWERS: 3
  • No, not really; it will probably eject a great deal of mass as nebular matter, which will probably be scooped up by another "stellar nursery" area, and thus some of it will indeed go on to form new suns and planets. However, the core of our sun will remain as a cool, dead "white dwarf" star.
  • As I wrote above (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/42178), the Sun will not explode. It will throw off a significant portion of its mass to form a planetary nebula, but this is not an explosion. The material thus thrown out will probably eventually cool and mix with other interstellar gasses and dust and even be incoporated into a new bunch of star systems. "Grandma Roses: Wow! I can hardly wait for it to be on Pay-per-view!! That should be some show!" Yes, it would be a great show. Unfortunately, we still have another 5 billion years before the sun will actually put it on. Even then the time span for it would be longer then the human life span. So, for now, we have to settle for looking at what other stars have done. The link in the above referenced answer will take you to a page where you can see a bunch of planetary nebulae.
  • We, people on the planet Earth will die. Any star in the in the Milky Way System has supernovaed. LOOK AT THE RED ONES.!

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