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Originally posted by Weepul 884:
**Get a huge explosive which can withstand the sun's heat, launch it into the sun, and the shockwave would spray plasma all over the system...poof! no more sun.
Lotsa ifs there though...
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It's called gravity, no amount of explosive would make the sun "blow up". In case you didn't realize, the sun IS "blowing up", its a nuclear reaction... the only thing keeping it a sphere is the gravity it creates my its massive size and density.
What do you think makes dense stars and blackholes? When the "explosion" is finally great enough to beat the gravity (when the star becomes unstable), then all the mass is sucked right back but into an even smaller size.
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