On 18/09/2015 10:59, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
One of my young carers came in when I was looking at the picture at
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150917.html
She asked what it was and I replied that it was the result of a star
exploding. She replied that it was lucky there are no stars near us. I
pointed at the Sun. Now she is worried about it exploding.
It isn't heavy enough to do that. It will eventually expand to a red giant and cook the Earth but she'll have to wait about 4bn years...
One of my young carers came in when I was looking at the picture at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150917.html
She asked what it was and I replied that it was the result of a star exploding. She replied that it was lucky there are no stars near us. I pointed at the Sun. Now she is worried about it exploding.
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