Explosion 10 Times As Bright As Supernova Discovered In Space

Supernova Explosion Discovered From 2.5 Million Years Ago

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A red supergiant star was watched for 130 days before it collapsed into a Type II supernova.

Photo shows star about to become supernova

S U P E R N O V A • • • SUPERNOVA: Most chemical elements are made in a supernova. The normal process inside stars, stellar nucleosynthesis, fuses hydrogen to create the elements, from helium through the periodic table to iron. To create the heavier elements through to uranium, however, requires something exponentially hotter and more energetic even than the core of a star – those forces typically found in the instant of a supernova. Not all supernovae destroy stars. Some stellar explosions don’

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