One of the most powerful explosion events in space is known as a supernova. These occur at the end of a star's lifetime when a star runs out of nuclear fuel and it is no longer supported by the nuclear energy. When a star explodes star start the births of new stars and the formation of solar systems like our own. Stars live 10 million years burning hydrogen into helium and helium into oxygen. The energy of the explosion is equal to all the energy the Sun gives out in a 10 billion year lifetime time’s 100 and put out in 1 second. Supernova release as much light and energy as our star will in 10 billion years, but there are hardly any supernovas events in our galaxy.
Scientists stated yellow ring around a supernova is gas and dust warmed by
The main idea for paragraphs 6-8 in When Stars Explode is how stars do explode. Here are some details: according to the text,“But these nuclear reactions do not make as much energy as hydrogen did. Within a few million years, the star has nothing left." The text also said “So the star's center collapses, scrunching itself into a small, dense object. Meanwhile, the star's outer layer shoots into space at millions of miles per hour. The star has exploded!"
However, this has not happened and it’s starting to make secular scientist themselves admit that our sun is special and unique in design, because it does not emit these monster super flares like the ones produced by Proxima Centauri. The question is, could our sun send out such a flare powerful enough to even melt the ice on Jupiter’s moon’s, destroy earth’s ozone layer and even obliterate all our satellites? Well the answer is yes. Scientist have studied other sun like stars in our galaxy and discovered that they produce these super flares about once a century. But, they have no explanations as to why our sun does not produce such solar
On the other end of the spectrum, the death of a super-massive star is one of the most brilliant displays of pure power in the universe which includes an amazing light show which has no equal. A super-massive star is exactly what it sounds like, a star so big that it dwarfs our own star in every way. When a super-massive sun begins to run out of out of hydrogen it begins to collapse, but due to its immense gravity and size, the collapse produces such an abrupt implosion that the last remnants of nuclear fusion remaining push all the mass of the star back out into space (Britt, 2007). This can be compared to someone jumping onto a trampoline whose elastic has enough elasticity to force one back into the air. This occurrence is known as a supernova explosion, which is the largest explosion in the known universe. A supernova explosion can even be seen from other galaxies, as scientists have done witnessed from observations using the Hubble telescope. The star is so big, however, that it only blows its outer atmosphere away, still leaving a massive amount of matter that is doomed to collapse again, and this time it will be a one-way ticket to oblivion. The super-massive star finally collapses and its own incredible mass crushes it’s internally and now turns it into a neutron star. An average neutron star is about ten miles in diameter, or the size of Manhattan. Although this
I’m bummed I’m probably going to miss out on these events because, for a few weeks, it’ll look almost as if Earth has two Suns. Despite being hundreds, thousands of light-years away, their supernovas will shine brighter than the full moon at night and will be visible even during the day. But the REAL sky show comes in 3.75 billion years. Our galaxy is full of stars, viewed from the surface of the Earth, they look like tiny drops of milk in the sky. Which is why we call it the Milky Way Galaxy. But all galaxies are named after milk. Milk, lactose, lactic, GA-lactic, galaxies. And every drop of milk that you see in the sky, every star that you can see, is inside our galaxy the Milky Way. But there’s a blurry distant shape. It’s not a star, it’s not a cloud of gas in our galaxy, but it is an entirely different galaxy - the Andromeda
Similar to when nuclear fission occurs, the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts. In Supernova, by Jeffrey C. Hall (2004), he states that a Type I supernova is the explosion of a dead star that consists mainly of the element, Carbon. In a Type II supernova,
On the cold morning of January 28, 1986, when the temperature hung ten degrees below freezing with the excessive wind chill, The Challenger was set to launch from Cape Canaveral Florida. On board, seven crew members, including the first civilian set to go to space, teacher Christa McAuliffe, awaited the final order to launch. As thousands of children watched on television, the shuttle left the platform, and seconds later, erupted into a plume of smoke, killing all on board. Even though the explosion of The Challenger was a tragedy for America’s space program, the disaster taught NASA many new lessons, a promised a bright future for space exploration,and reinforced the importance of science and math in school.
After a star lives for about 1 million years, it becomes a main sequence star. Once it becomes a main sequence star, it will then go through a proton-proton chain reaction. Since the force of gravity goes inward, the force of fusion will then go outward from the core. This process will continue for about 10 billion years even when the star is "burning" Over those ten years, the stars will eventually slowly run out of hydrogen. After it runs out of hydrogen, the core will fill up with helium.
Through comprehensive analysis, we identified the root cause of the explosion of Challenger space shuttle. We referred www.nasa.gov and many other websites to learn more about the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster and gather domain knowledge. We referred the NASA report “http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm” to go in depth of the Space Shuttle concept and development phases. All the issues with the project can be categorized into two problem groups. Mechanical and administrative problems. The direct cause of the Challenger explosion was technical - faulty O-rings. But, the decision to launch the Challenger despite the identified risks was a combination of poor communication and a difference in the evaluation of the risk. We are sure
In June of 1908, a fireball descended towards Earth leaving a fiery white trail in its path. It landed in Siberia but it wasn’t like any other asteroid. This one appeared to have exploded in mid air causing Hiroshima like effects. There is no evidence that it hit Earth, but there is a crater shaped lake about five miles from where the suspected spot it landed. The fire ball left thousands of trees on fire, seemingly blowing over millions. This force killed local people as well as animals and there is only one thing that we can conclude about it… it was an asteroid.
Type II supernova results from the rapid collapse and explosion of a massive star. For a star to explode as a type II supernova it must be several times more massive than the sun. it is estimated that their mass must be at least 8 times greater than that of the sun, but no more than 40-50 times the suns mass.
This article talks about how a star explodes. When a star explodes, it either completely blows up or it leaves a black hole behind. Some stars explode with titanic explosions called Supernovae. Supernovae are put into two categories, Type I and Type II. A well known Type I is called Type Ia. Type Ia is when a white dwarf star blown up. One theory as to why this happens is called stellar cannibalism. This is when a white dwarf star has a star that is near it, it might steal gas from the star. Type II supernovae however, are most likely born in galaxy spiral arms. Type II supernova's brightness usually stays bright for up to two months. Then it goes down over the next few months. I would definitely like to read more about the explosion of stars,
Supernovae turn out to be splendid and cause a colossal burst of radiation that can surpass a whole system (galaxy) before vanishing. The upheaval for the most part keeps going about a month and removes a lot of a star's staying matter at a greatly high rate of speed (regularly around 1/10 the speed of light). This makes a stun (shock) wave that impacts the interstellar medium in the region of the supernova. Supernovae are greatly uncommon – happening just once like clockwork inside a cosmic system the extent of our own Milky Way. They can just happen when a maturing enormous star can no longer produce vitality from atomic combination (fusion) (a response in which at least two nuclear cores approach enough to frame at least one diverse nuclear cores and subatomic particles (neutrons or potentially protons). The distinction in mass between the items and reactants is showed as the arrival of a lot of vitality) and experiences a fast gravitational disintegrate. This collapse discharges potential vitality that warms up and diverts from the external layers of the star as a tremendous
A supernova is a marvelous thing that happens in space, and scientists are trying to use these explosions of stars to learn more about our expanding galaxy with the debris and elements that explode from the supernova, the largest explosion in space which can outshine many galaxies. Since the stars is a large distance away, when the supernova does happen, it would have actually happened a couple hundred years ago, because the light takes many years to reach our eyes. A supernova can happen in two different ways, known by a Type 1 supernova and a Type 2 supernova.
Supernovas are the explosion of a star when it reaches the end of its life. There are two ways a star can go supernova. The first way or a Type I supernova occurs in the Binary system which is when two stars orbit the same point. The two stars are a white dwarf and a red giant. A white dwarf is a small dense star that is around the size of a planet and a red giant is a star at its last stages of life. If these two stars are close enough, matter will be transferred to the white dwarf from the red giant. When the star’s core reaches its limit of matter, a thermonuclear detonation will occur leaving nothing behind unless there were leftover elements in the white dwarf or there were elements made in the supernova explosion. One of the elements made in the explosion is radioactive nickel.
Main sequence stars like our own sun enduring in a state of nuclear fusion during which they will produce energy for billions of years by replacing hydrogen to helium. Stars change over billions of years. When their main sequence phase ends they pass through other states of existence according to their size and other characteristics. The larger a star's mass, the shorter its lifespan is. As stars move toward the end of their lives, much of their hydrogen will be converted to helium. Helium sinks to the star's core and raises the star's temperature—causing its outer shell to expand. These large, puffy stars are known as Red Giants. The red giant phase is actually a prelude to a star shedding its outer layers and becoming a small, dense body called a White Dwarf. White dwarfs cool down for billions and billions of years, until they finally go dark and produce no energy at all. Once this happens, scientists have yet to observe, such stars become known as Black Dwarfs. A few stars avoid this evolutionary path and instead go out with a bang, exploding as Supernovae. These violent explosions leave behind a small core that will then turn into something called a Neutron Star or even, if the remainder is large enough, it is then turned into something called a Black Hole.