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Novas, or supernovas. Tycho Brahe coined the phrase "nova stellarum" when a "new star" appeared in the night sky. We now know that he was observing a supernova, the death throes of a very massive star.
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Technically, the Sun will never explode as with some stars. [See related question] The probability that the Sun will die, is 100%, sometime in the next 5 to 6 billion years.
The first stars to form after the "Big Bang" were made just of Hydrogen and Helium. They were very large and died young, exploding to leave a little metal (heavier elements) in the universe - these stars are called "Population III" stars.The next stars to form incorporated a little metal from the older stars (but are still very low in heavy elements) and are called "Population II" stars. Stars in globular clusters are this sort of star (globular clusters are old and have not produced new stars for a long time). We can tell this form their metallicity and the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for Globular clusters.Most stars contain a lot of heavy elements (high metallicity) and are quite young (like our Sun). These are called "Population I" stars.
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Believe in christ, not exploding stars. Believe in christ, not exploding stars.
Its called a Supernova.
Supernova and nova.See related questions.
Space Patrol - 1950 The Exploding Stars 4-38 was released on: USA: 13 November 1954
The stars you see at night still exist.
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Supernovas. A 'shooting star' is not a star at all, it is a meteor glowing as it enters the earth's atmosphere.
V. G. Gorbatskii has written: 'Exploding stars and galaxies' -- subject(s): Astrophysics, Evolution, Stars
Planets are not formed by exploding stars!Planets are formed of the material left behind as a star forms from the dust and gasses of a collapsing molecular cloud.A distant exploding star may provide the initial compression wave that triggers the collapse of the molecular cloud leading to the formation of new stars and the planets around them. But there are other mechanisms having nothing to do with stars that might trigger this also.
Mostly heavy elements are created inside stars and then spread when they go supernova and recondense into new stars and planets.
The earth itself is the main source - ultimately everything but hydrogen came from exploding stars.
There are no exploding stars (supernovae) in our solar system. Supernovae occur in distant parts of the galaxy, outside our solar system. The nearest known supernova to Earth was Supernova 1987A, which was located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.