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I read the Astartes Index and the 8th edition of the necrons.
In the first Night Lords destroyed the planet by shooting at a weak point.
In the second, Necron destroyed the planet using a space station for bombardment.
Because of this, I want to ask a rather strange question. What requires more firepower from the Imperial fleet: Destroying the planet or destroying the most powerful imperial battleship or station, taking into account all sorts of shields used by them?
Can one ship destroy a planet?

Depends how you define "destroy a planet". Most Exterminatus weapons just kill off all life (or strip the atmosphere) for example, leaving the planet a dead rock.

beast_gts wrote:
Depends how you define "destroy a planet". Most Exterminatus weapons just kill off all life (or strip the atmosphere) for example, leaving the planet a dead rock.

I mean destroy planet like they destroy Nostramo or destroy it like Death Star/Planet Killer

A ship is pretty much always going to be easier to kill than a planet.

Regardless of its shielding.

Unless you are using Abaddon's "Planet killer" ship, which did both with equal facility.

Wahid Namdar wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
Depends how you define "destroy a planet". Most Exterminatus weapons just kill off all life (or strip the atmosphere) for example, leaving the planet a dead rock.

I mean destroy planet like they destroy Nostramo or destroy it like Death Star/Planet Killer

Your standard Imperial warship hasn't got anywhere near the firepower to tear a planet apart. As vast as the ships are, planets are even bigger and that's before you consider that a world might well have orbital stations, shields, ground to air weapons and all other kinds of protective measures.

So destroying another ship is a lot lot easier.

Unless, as said, you bring a ship with weapons specifically designed to blow up planets.

Definitely.
Nostromo is a special case - seismically unstable and with most of a legion battlefleet bombarding the fracture point.

One ship achieving a 'biosphere kill' and leaving a dead rock? Easy.

Making the entire planet 'not there anymore'? The planet killer is the only human-wrought ship to ever do that, and that took an 'overcharged' shot compared to its normal armageddon gun fire.