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You could do it with regular iron (if you just want to kill the star) but you'll need much, much more than a Charon full.

More ideas for the love of gods! Who needs titans when you have sun slayers :3

Wow, Decent Read, Nothing to add tho.

Well.... maybe.... Call Mythbusters?

Lots of iron. Depending on mass, it may not blow up, but it will be a big problem.

I'm not sure anti-matter is the answer, and there are simpler solutions. It is quite possible to disrupt or change the lifespan of a Sun. It would require a very great deal of matter though.

Anti-matter won't have the effect you think. That is, it won't cause the Sun to 'Blow up'. Rather, the anti-matter will change both Helium and Hydrogen in differing proportions as it comes into contact with them. I won't pretend to know what that change will be, but suffice to say, the result will be the Sun density decreasing proportionally with respect to those elements.

This basically means that, while the Sun may increase in overall density, it will simply lose some of both of the particular elements that make up the majority of it's outer mass. Helium on the Sun is simply the product of fusion and is responsible for the expansion of the Sun and cooling of its mass as it increases in proportion to the quantity of Hydrogen and other elements. Hydrogen is the element that, through Fusion, creates the energy that makes the Sun what it is while itself becoming Helium in the process.

So less of both equals what exactly? A Smaller Sun with less potential for fusion and greater density, all dependent on the proportions of each that were removed, and what the product of that removal was. There will always be a product, even of Anti-matter and matter. It's also feasible to speculate that there are as many varieties of anti-matter as matter.

Of course, anti-matter is only a hypothetical possibility anyway, and what scientists think may be anti-matter, may in fact be something else.

Edit: honestly, I don't believe in anti-matter; the whole idea is absurd. Matter is what it is; it's either one type or another, but it is still matter. Electrons and Protons are different yes, and opposing, yes, but does that mean one is anti- to the other. Of course not, they work in conjunction and do so quite effectively, such that the entire Universe relies on their function and existence.

If you wanted to find a hypothetical case for this scenario, take the Neutron, Electron, and Proton and compare them to Dark Matter, Anti-matter, and Matter respectively. Their function in relation to each other is likely to be essentially the same, except on a different scale and in another environment.

What Environment? The galaxy would be a good start, with Dark Matter at it's core and Anti-matter and matter encircling it and reaching out to the expanse of its envelope. Anti-matter could of course move between galactic environments freely, as electrons do in atomic environments, provided suitable conditions are met.

Really, who's to say, but it's more likely than some 'anti' matter.

They opened a wormhole to a black hole and threw it into the sun. The black hole's gravity and time dilation held the gate open longer than normal and also sucked plasma through the opening and out of the sun. After enough matter was removed, the star's internal equilibrium between energy production (that pushes it out) and gravitation (that pulls it in) was disrupted to the point that the star built up an internal velocity inward. The result is typically an implosion shockwave and subsequent explosion of most of the star's outer layers as the shockwave rebounds. There would likely have been some kind of stellar remnant left behind, either a neutron star or a black hole (possibly even a still burning sun depending on the dynamics of the explosion). There's a few other ways a star could die, and they mostly depend on mass and composition.

I am a scientist. AFIK, the EVE universe doesn't have the kind of technology that you would need to get a large quantity of antiparticles close enough to most stars to explode it. Other people have suggested conventional weapons or matter like iron. Beyond the fact that at least our sun has a crust of iron on its surface, conventional matter in nearly any quantity would be instantly converted into plasma once in contact with a star's photosphere. Laser weapons of any size so far as discussed in EVE would have no effect; their energy would simply be absorbed and reemitted as undetectable fluorescence or a sunquake. Maybe you'd get a solar flare or something.
Perhaps with very advanced shields, you could get a ship close to something like a brown dwarf or a very old red supergiant, but the quantity of antimatter required to do any appreciable damage to such a star would be enormous.
Unstable celestial bodies like neutron stars or magnetars might be one idea, but these entities have tremendous electromagnetic and gravitic fields that would definitely bend the physics assumed behind any type of weapon discussed in EVE.

The scientists that have produced antimatter in labs around the world would like to have a talk with you about your lack of physics knowledge.

Also, the anti-particle of an electron is a positron, not a proton. You can check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparticle if you really care about the science.

If, as I suspect, you choose to remain clueless about the subject at hand, feel free to continue spouting nonsense while the rest of us point and laugh.

Ever thought of an alternative way of destroying a star. Ever heard of vampire stars? Just pull one near the star and it would cipher away all the fuel, leaving it to go super nova, destroying both stars.

Build something that can interfere with the magnetic field and gravitational forces of a sun. I'm not astrophysicist but I think it would just melt like ice-cream sundae if you can somehow **** with it's rotation and/or slice a big enough hole in its magnetic field.