The Ohio Players were an American funk, soul music and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their songs Fire and Love Rollercoaster.
A spaceship with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will blow up quite well in the vacuum of space. Chemical explosives will also explode in space since they function by breaking weakly bonded chemical components; no oxygen is necessary. Nuclear explosions can of course occur in space, too.
This supernova, as these explosions are called, happened about 5bn years ago. The wreckage from the explosion then crashed into a nearby cloud of gas, bringing together the ingredients for our solar system to form. Because the explosion was so energetic it made the dust mixture very hot and things began to cook.