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Originally Posted by mental4astro
 I hadn't noticed that!
But no, not exploded stars as in super novae. A Planetary Nebula is what our Sun will produce, but won't explode. The ejection of the layers that surround the core I guess could be considered an explosion, but this is not the same thing as a star going super nova. |
Yeah, that was my understanding. Lovely sketches, by the way.