Space Weather: the coming solar micronova

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

As a man of science, this is a worry.

There is no reason why our sun couldnt produce a nova. The mechanism proposed here involves a magnetohydrodynamic kick and the sun becoming fouled by interstellar dust, and apparently vomiting off a huge mass of plasma and matter.
Evidence that it has in the past.

Not a planet killing event, but would certainly be a bad time. I read a while back about the black sun and the earth being bathed in violet light rather than inky black at night.

What does the dissensus hive mind think? Crackpot catastrophising, or imminent threat?

 

[luka]

if theres hell below
we're all gonna go

 

[Corpsey]

I don't want to think about it. And also I don't see much point cos I can't do anything about it.

I was reading about the sun last night as it happens. An Arthur c Clarke piece on it. How we can only appreciate a very small band of the energy it emits, i.e. the visible spectrum. How the current yellow light it emits will turn out to be an incredibly brief period in it's mostly dimmer redder history.

Cosmology is amazing but also depresses hell out of me