My gradeschool teacher taught me that there are 2 ways a star can die. [From what I remember], a star can turn into a blackhole or it can explode and be a hmmm some kind of dwarf.
I remembered getting scared because I knew (from the
previous semester) that the sun is a star. If it died, it could suck all the 9
planets around it or it could explode and kill us all. When I told my teacher
all my fears, he laughed at me and said that it won't happen for a million
years. That didn't comfort at all.
Just recently, a particular star had died. It was very
unique because it started being a blackhole for a while but then towards the
end, it finally exploded.
Blackhole phase: Everything the star touched, it sucked
towards its unending revolution. Everything the star sucked stayed around it
until it was satisfied. The star felt guilty that it was drawing everything
towards it involuntarily. It felt like the star had no choice but to feed off
of everything around it. It fed off of everyone’s life, light, and happiness. I
guess this was the star’s way of surviving death because a blackhole, you see,
is not really a dead star. It’s dying. And no one knows when the blackhole will
stop pulling everything towards it or if it ever will.
Explosion phase: Then something happened that made the star
stop imbibing everything that had life. It finally got satisfied and exploded.
It exploded hard and loud. It was strange because the star that was supposed to
be dying, never felt more alive as it was exploding. Another unexpected thing
that happened was the explosion did not hurt anything around it because there
was no one, nothing. The star had already sucked everything. There was nothing
to lose. The star, finally contented, had died.
Death phase: After the big explosion, everything was quiet.
The star did not have the energy to shine and twinkle as before. It did not have
life. At long last, the star’s life has ended.
Somehow, this made me sad. It made me sad because it was the
end. It sucked and obliterated everything around it and in the end, it died. Finished.
Now the star that once shone and twinkled for everyone is just a Thing
in space. It has no contribution whatsoever to anyone or anything. A Thing that
cannot do anything. A Thing that only 2 people on Earth will recognize as
Something that was once amazing. Once was beautiful. But now dead.
