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pnalsing@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 6:42:18 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Sam Wormley wrote:
> > >
> > > On 6/7/15 2:40 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > > > The stars, our sun...is 'aware' of the earth. In other words, the sun has ...consciousness.
> > >
> > >    You don't say -- hopefully our sun wound puff up and vaporize
> > >    the earth someday.
> > >
> >
> >
> > but you wrote: "That leaves our sun with no possibility of exploding."
> >
> >
> > ain't you contradicting yourself??...
> >
> >
> > without links, you're lost...ain't you?
> 
> A star the size of the Sun will indeed "puff up" near the end of its life, and become a planetary nebula... but this is not at all the same thing as exploding. You want a link, no problem...
> 
> http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/balick/WFPC2/
> 
> "95% of all stars that we see in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, will ultimately become "planetary nebulae". This includes the Sun.
> 
> Much as a butterfly emerges when its chrysalis is ejected, planetary nebulae are formed when a red giant star ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminescent gas, revealing the dense, hot, and tiny white dwarf star at its core.
> 
> The other 5% of stars -- that is, those born with masses more than eight times larger than our Sun -- end their lives as supernovae."
> 
> So, only 5% of all stars, the largest and heaviest, explode in a supernova.
> 
> You need more links? No problem...
> 
> http://www.cosmotography.com/images/planetary_nebula_formation.html
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula
> 
> http://www.space.com/17715-planetary-nebula.html
> 
> https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2010/stars2010/Presentations/4March/Zijlstra_ESO2010.pdf
> 
> Happy reading, I hope you learn something new today. This is fascinating stuff!
> 
> \Paul A


the craziest topics you guys have is this...'fate of the universe'
thing....why would anybody want to know what will happen a trillion
years from now?

Shouldn't yous be more concern with...today, instead of escaping to a
trillion years from now? Good pot can do the same thing..

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Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-05 12:40 -0700
  Re: Stars Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-05 14:50 -0500
  Re: Stars Sesiom <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-06-05 15:45 -0500
    Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-05 14:22 -0700
      Re: Stars "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2015-06-05 17:52 -0400
        Re: Stars Sesiom <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-06-05 16:54 -0500
        Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-05 15:41 -0700
        Re: Stars William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-06-05 18:52 -0400
    Re: Stars "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2015-06-05 17:47 -0400
    Re: Stars Forehead <head@4the.hills> - 2015-06-05 18:24 -0500
      Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-05 23:35 -0700
        Re: Stars "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2015-06-06 04:12 -0400
        Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-06 12:32 -0700
          Re: Stars Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-06 15:04 -0500
          Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-07 00:12 -0700
            Re: Stars Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 08:37 -0500
              Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-07 12:40 -0700
                Re: Stars Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 20:33 -0500
                Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-07 18:43 -0700
                Re: Stars Sesiom <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-06-07 20:58 -0500
                Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-08 13:48 -0700
                Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-08 13:55 -0700
                Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-08 13:56 -0700
                Re: Stars Sesiom <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-06-08 21:54 -0500
                Re: Stars The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-08 18:14 -0700

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