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    1. A red supergiant star approaches the end of its life as it runs out of fuel to burn. Its massive dense core collapses under its own weight. 2. The core collapse sends a shock wave through the star, compressing and heating its envelope. This produces a bright flash of light from inside the star. 3. The shock wave hits the surface of the star and blows it apart at 50 million km/h. The core becomes a neutron star while the hot glowing surface expands, making the fireball brighter in the following days.

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    1. A red supergiant star approaches the end of its life as it runs out of fuel to burn. Its massive dense core collapses under its own weight. 2. The core collapse sends a shock wave through the star, compressing and heating its envelope. This produces a bright flash of light from inside the star. 3. The shock wave hits the surface of the star and blows it apart at 50 million km/h. The core becomes a neutron star while the hot glowing surface expands, making the fireball brighter in the following days.

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    5 Stages in The Death of A Star

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    Joan Vianney Clare Judaya
    1. A red supergiant star approaches the end of its life as it runs out of fuel to burn. Its massive dense core collapses under its own weight. 2. The core collapse sends a shock wave through the star, compressing and heating its envelope. This produces a bright flash of light from inside the star. 3. The shock wave hits the surface of the star and blows it apart at 50 million km/h. The core becomes a neutron star while the hot glowing surface expands, making the fireball brighter in the following days.

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    Supernova: Five Stages in the Death of a Star

    1. Just before explosion A red super-giant star approaches the end of its life. There is no more fuel to burn and make it shine. Soon its massive dense core is bound to collapse under its own weight. 2. The first light flash The core collapses and sends a shock wave out. For a few hours the shock compresses and heats the envelope, thus producing a very bright flash of light from the inside of the star. 3. The flash has gone After hitting the surface at 50 million km/h the shock blows the star apart. The core turns into a neutron star, a compact atomic nucleus with the mass of the Sun but 10 km in size. 4. The proper Supernova The hot glowing surface expands quickly making the fireball brighter again. In a few days it will be 10x the size of the original star and will be discovered by supernova hunters. 5. A long time after The remains of the former star are spread over light years of space. They keep floating quickly, sweeping up interstellar gas here and there, leaving a faint beautiful glow behind

    Host galaxy

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    Supernova

    Schawinksi, Justham, Wolf, et al.: Supernova shock breakout from a red supergiant, published in Science 2008

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    Image of Veil Nebula a.k.a. Cirrus Nebula by Johannes Schedler and taken from www.universetoday.com/ am/uploads/veil_lrg.jpg Illustrations and text by C. Wolf Image composition by K. Schawinski Image sources (all data are public archives)
    Host galaxy NASA/HST, taken by COSMOS team Supernova NASA/GALEX

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