The most violent explosive event our sun is likely to take part in is its eventual transformation into a __.?
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the sun will eventually become a white dwarf, but the most violent explosive event may be the helium flash.  this occurs after the sun's core have compressed and heated and its outer layers have expanded and cooled and helium fusion begins.
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Alomost all types of minerals and gasses including oxygen. Everything the man enjoys now has come originally from volcanic disturbences millions of years ago to support the living beings today.\nThe sun, with all the plannets, is orbiting around a massive black hole in the centre of milkeyway gallaxy at a speed of 275 km/sec, with an eccentric path.Completes one revolution by 225 million years.\nIn the above process when the sun with earth and all the plannets reach other side of the orbit near the black hole    will induce higher volcanic activities over the earth. Every thing over the earth will sink back deep under the crust.   This will be preparation for next cycle of life over the earth in the next orbit.
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Sun explode. Sun go out. Ceres-sized bolide hit Earth.\n\nNo disease, weather or ecological phenomenon could completely wipe us out. Even we couldn't wipe ourselves out; we are just to numerous and smart.
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Well, very interesting question I must say. Our Sun was formed about 4600 million years ago and will continue to give out energy for an equal period of time. So, the earth is safe for the next 4600 million years. Phew!!\n\nBut, if you want to know what will be the fate of our sun (or any star for that matter) after it enters the final stages of its life, then read on.....\n\n(1) The first phase will be THE RED-GIANT PHASE. In this phase, the fusion reactions in the core of the sun will stop and it will start shrinking, this will disturb the equilibrium of our sun and it will start expanding like crazy to re-adjust it. Its color will change to red & it will become very very VERY big!\n\n(2) Now, the second stage will be the WHITE DWARF STAGE. Here, the expanding outer shell will be removed eventually and the shrinking Helium core will shrink into an extremely dense ball of matter due to gravitation. The helium nuclei will start to fuse together to form Carbon nuclei & will release tremendous amount of energy in the process & the sun will start glowing white.\n\n(3) Ultimately, the helium fuel will burn out & the sun will fade into space as a dense lump of matter.\n\n\nBut, if we consider the case of a much bigger star (even bigger than our sun), we'll find more final stages. Those stages will be- \na) Supernova- exploding star\nb) Neutron star- After explosion\nc) Pulsar- A spinning neutron star\nd) Black hole- Formed by an indefinite contraction of a heavy neutron star.\n\n:) Hope you enjoyed all the info :)\nHave a nice day
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The sun is about 4.5 billion years old and about 1/3 rd the way through it's expected life. Scientists have given us a glimpse of what to expect as the sun ages.\n\n1.1 billion years or so, it will become 10% brighter. This will cause the earth to become super heated, all life will be destroyed and the oceans will boil away. Then in another 6.5 billion years, it will double in brightness and burn its supply of hydrogen fuel in its core. The sun will swell and become bigger than what we see today.\n\nAt around 8 billion years or so, the size will increase to 166 times and reach as far as Jupiter. The color will be red and it will be known as a Red Giant, but once the hydrogen fuel is depleted and the sun has reached the outer regions of Jupiter, it will start to shrink, losing both energy and brightness as it quickly consumes it's helium in  in 100 million years or so..\n\nThen, at around 12 billion years, the sun will eject much of its outer layers and become a smoldering, collapsed core that scientists would call a White Dwarf, but this is not the end, for it has one more transformation. It eventually will become a Black Hole.\n\nIf you would like to see what the sun will look like when it becomes a White Dwarf, go to:\nhttp://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/m2_9_large.jpg
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There is no fire on the sun.  Our star is converting hydrogen into helium (which is nuclear fusion and thus creates heat) because it is so massive that the atoms its made from are being compressed by its own gravity.\n\nEventually, it will run out of fuel and stop "burning" all together, becoming a white dwarf, then a black one.\n\nLarger stars will explode and disperse their materials (the things you and I are made of) across the universe.  The largest will become black holes and try to fix the mess created by the others.
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Depends on the size of the comet, many just disintegrate on the atmosphere. A really big one could create:\nShift in the orbit, heat from the explosion, smoke and dust from the explosion covering the Sun. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions from shift in magnetic field due to orbit shift. Basically extinction of many forms of life, possibly even human.
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It will - every sun eventually burns out it is simply a huge star.  It will burn out in like a billion years or something lol.
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probably not.  Unless the sun explodes
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It's a Chemical/Fusion reaction...
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Pure oxygen, it would just explode. Very dangerous.
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The moon would eventually collide with the Earth if it weren't for the fact that both the Earth and the Moon will be incinerated by the expanding Sun before that happens, making this kind of question academic.
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If the world suddenly turned into a tangerine, it would burn up and start to "fall/move" twords the sun.  It would probably split apart, and no life would survive.\n\nHowever, the chances of that happening are very, very slim, and If I were you, I wouldn't worry about it.  I mean really, really don't worry about it, there is a better chance of the world turning into an overcooked Mud Pie, so that is what you should be worried about instead.
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The sun will expand and engolf the Earth before it explodes.  This means we will never watch the explosion, we would burn up first, but it is not going to happen in our lifetime.
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I would say false.  The gravitational pull of the sun would pull it to it's doom.
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ok there are solar flares that reach us but earth's magnetic field sort of protects us.\nso what we need is a combo of some sort\nso how about we go for\nEarth's magnetic pole flipping\nSolar flare(big) or solar increase\nMeteor\nComet\nput them all in the blender and mix\n\nso at the same time the magnetic pole flips\nthe field will drop to zero(not sure on how long)\nat this time a solar flare hits us making the entire sky look like the northern lights(very beautiful at sun set)\nbecause the atmosphere starts to ionize.\nand on the night side a comet heading straight for earth\nbut the comet is over taken by a large meteor that smashes the comet creating a lot of small comets of ice and rock and one mostly untouched meteor about 150-200km or larger in diameter. the meteor can crash in the middle of the pacific right on top of hawaii taking it out and creating a large tsunami that kills most of the people in the costal areas. then the ice covered meteors from the comet will at some time over the next 48 hours end up taking out most of the major urban centers of the world and the farms as well.\nalso the ensuing earthquakes can completely teraform the landscape in to a more mountainous terrain.\nand the electro magnetic serge caused by the solar flare launches all of the armaments across the globe at random GPS co-ordinates.(nuklear, chemical, biological, ETC...)\n\nhows that for a disaster waiting to happen.
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"In about five billion years, the Sun will use up most of its hydrogen fuel. It will enter the final stages of its life. It will collapse, and then the outer layer of the Sun will expand. It will form a red giant.\n\nIt will be so big that some of the planets will be inside it. These planets will burn away. Which planets get destroyed will depend on how much mass the Sun loses."\nhttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Solar_System/Solar_System#What_will_happen_to_the_Solar_System.3F\n\n\nThere's more interesting reading and some illustrations here.\nhttp://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Lectures/vistas97.html