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Not to be confused with a supernova - [See related]
In a few hundred days a nova pumps out as much energy as the sun does for more than a million years.
The Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima exploded with an energy of about 15 kilotons of TNT (~6 × 1013 joules)
During the Cold War, the United States developed hydrogen bombs with a maximum theoretical yield of 25 megatons (~1015 Joules)
A nova releases as much energy as the Sun emits in a million years or 1034 joules
which is about ten quintillion megatons of TNT (~1018 joules)
So you'd need about 17,000 of the most powerful hydrogen bombs to equal a nova.
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