Can the Sun blow up any time?
The Sun won’t explode. Eventually (in five or seven billion years time), the Sun’s life will come to an end. Our star will swell up, becoming something called a “Red Giant” star. It might even get so big that it swallows the Earth whole.
What is it called when the sun blows up?
The sun is a star, and when a star explodes it’s called a supernova. These types of explosions are very bright, and very powerful. They release lots of dust into space, which is used to make more stars and planets. Our solar system was made using stuff from these explosions.
What would happen if Sun exploded?
The Sun will get hotter and brighter, and it will start to expand. During this process, it will lose its outer layers to the cosmos, leading to the creation of other stars and planets in the same way that the violent burst of the Big Bang created Earth.
Will the sun burn out or explode?
The Sun as a red giant will then… go supernova? Actually, no—it doesn’t have enough mass to explode. Instead, it will lose its outer layers and condense into a white dwarf star about the same size as our planet is now. A planetary nebula is the glowing gas around a dying, Sun-like star.
Will the Sun eventually explode?
No, the Sun will not explode. To explode indicates that the internal forces will eventually overcome gravity and violently tear the Sun apart. This is not the fate in store for the Sun. As Clark described, the Sun will eventually start to burn helium to produce Carbon. However, that is as far as it will go.
Why would the Sun explode?
So the Sun will never explode (even though more massive stars can and do). The difference is that the Sun isn’t massive enough to ignite anything past helium in its core. More massive stars continue nuclear burning until they start making iron. This creates an unstable core which will then explode in a supernova explosion. Last updated Feb. 10th 2016
When will Earth become uninhabitable?
As the Sun matures into a Red Giant, the oceans will boil and Earth will become uninhabitable . Credit: Fsgregs, CC BY-SA In a few billion years, the sun will become a red giant so large that it will engulf our planet. But the Earth will become uninhabitable much sooner than that.