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Originally Posted by AG Hybrid
I seriously doubt the human race will be around anywhere near the time our sun goes nova. If we are around, we will be long away from here.
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Hi Adrian,
Our Sun won't go Supernova, instead its demise will be long and unspectacular. The links below show and explain this nicely.
Space Junkey you are right on a universal scale Supernova do blink out of existence but from our view point it can take months to even years for the light from the SN to fade. I can say that finding a "new" star in my image and then getting confirmation that it is indeed a supernova is extremely exciting. Like you it makes me wonder just what was happening around that star when it met its doom and there is a strange experience that goes with this, just knowing you were the first to "see" this in an image is very moving.
But what goes around comes around, and those SN I discovered happened some 150-200 million years ago, the new gases and dust from the furnace that created them will no doubt interact with the same from other bygone stars and who knows, after all a bit of star dust, gravity and a lot of time were the key ingredients needed to enable us to post here on Ice In Space.
PeterM.
http://www.michielb.nl/sun/leven.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/guide-t...e-suns-future/