Supernovas
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A very large star explodes, somewhere in the unfathomable space of our galaxy. The star's core collapses. The monstrous pressure crushes its atoms and smashes their electrons into the nuclei. There, the negatively charged protons change to neutrons and neutrinos. Billions of neutrinos particles, ....
Middle of paper
.... as an entire galaxy. One of the most energetic explosive happenings known is a supernova. occur at the end of a stars lifetime, when its nuclear fuel is exhausted an it is no longer supported by the release of nuclear energy. If the star is particularly massive, then its core will collapse and in so doing will release a huge amount of energy. This will cause a blast waver that ejects the stars envelope into interstellar space. The result of the collapse may be, in some cases, a rapidly ro ....
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