Our sun is too small to go supernova – it will turn into a red giant in about 5 billion years, but it is highly unlikely life will survive passed about another 600 million years because of a change in the atmosphere, and almost certainly not passed a billion years due to rising temperatures. Even if we could found a colony in another solar system I can’t see how we could develop the technology needed to harness a super nova, but this really isn’t my field so others might know things I don’t?
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