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Probability.... Need I say more?! (literature.cafe)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't our sun too small to explode at all? IIRC the sun will expand enough to engulf the earth's orbit but will eventually shrink to a dwarf.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too small to supernova and black hole, yes. But large enough to have a decent boom. Probably at least red giant, then a nova (explosion casting off outer layers) leaving a white dwarf remnant.

If I'm around by then, my model of medical science progress is wrong ;)

E: I'm wrong. That casting off of the outer gas envelope is not a nova. It's just a death throe of some sort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update bro!