Krii8

Krii8 t1_irq7ggj wrote

Reply to comment by jpo234 in What would happen if our star became a supernova by CocoLog1

The way you phrase it I agree. I don't know how he asked the original question, it's deleted. But I think it would've been rephrased something like

> If the sun could go super nova (thus, if we changed the size, mass, orbits etc relatively) what would happen from this distance (instead of light years away)

Or

> What happens to the planets with life around a star that goes super nova

Some people say words like "earth" because they don't know the lingo. They hear for the first time stars can go super nova and obviously try to grasp it. But people keep shooting them down. It's not alright. Be flexible.

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Krii8 t1_irlskeg wrote

Reply to comment by jpo234 in What would happen if our star became a supernova by CocoLog1

It does. It's like asking what would happen if the earth suddenly stopped spinning. It'll never happen, it can't happen, but you can still do some of the math/physics.

Just because there's a singularity at the end of a black hole, doesn't mean you can't calculate what happens before that...

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Krii8 t1_irlrblm wrote

Reply to comment by CocoLog1 in What would happen if our star became a supernova by CocoLog1

Actually. There are systems found in which planets seem to have survived their star's super nova. Planets have been found orbiting pulsars/neutron stars. They're just ultra burned to a crisp. Now, it is possible they all started orbiting after it happened. But who knows how common that is.

You might actually find interesting how the first exoplanet was found

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