Stars, exploding

An interesting characteristic of iron is that it is the heaviest element that can be formed by fusion of hydrogen in the sun and similar stars. Hydrogen nuclei can be squeezed in the sun to form all the elements with atomic numbers below cobalt ( Co), which includes iron. It requires the excess fusion energy of supernovas (exploding stars) to form elements with proton numbers greater than iron (jgFe). 

Today, it is generally thought that the Universe is open, by which it is meant that the expansion is eternal, and indeed, even accelerating. This strikes at the very heart of the old paradigm of eternal return. This announcement of a one-way diaspora originates from a certain type of exploding star, visible from... 

Exceptionally violent phenomena can nevertheless disturb this fine order. Some of them bring tremendous speeds into play, in both translational and rotational motions. Solar and stellar flares come to mind, along with exploding stars and spinning pulsars (neutron stars). If part of this well-ordered energy is conferred upon an atomic nucleus, it then becomes a cosmic ray. It is thus excluded from the community, whose gentle brethren are no longer able to retain it. 

Such radioactivity could not go unnoticed. Indeed, radiation from the exploded star was to carry its unmistakable signature. In order to realise the great importance of this comment, we must now leave theoretical limbo and refer to observation, so true, so beautiful and so irrefutable. Let us then rewrite this chapter in more concrete terms. 

When Cortez asked the Aztecs where they obtained the iron in their daggers, they pointed to the sky. Astrophysicists also suspected this to be the case and a startling confirmation was supplied by the 1987 exploding star, the long-awaited... 

The issue I want to discuss is this supernovae observed during their photospheric phases display three distinct kinds of spectra - but there are four distinct chemical compositions that should be considered for the outer layers of exploding stars. What is the correspondence between the observed supernova type and the chemical composition ... 

The light curve is sensitive to several critical parameters. Those are mainly the mass M and radius R of the progenitor star and the energy E of the explosion. Other important parameters axe the composition of the exploding star, on which depend the opacity and the details of recombination in the ejecta, the mass of 56Ni ejected and the energy which can be injected by a newly born pulsar. 

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Matter from exploding supernovas was blown throughout the galaxy, forming a new generation of stars and planets. Our own sun and solar system formed only about 4.5 billion years ago from matter released by former supernovas. Except for hydrogen and helium, all the atoms in our bodies, our planet, and our solar system were created more than 5 billion years ago in exploding stars. 

Bob looks up. Stars are still being born now but more in the spiral arms than in the core. The core stars formed early in the Galaxy s history and are late in their evolution. The exploding stars, or supernovas, in the arms are kicking out heavy elements like carbon that were manufactured in the stars. ... 

Sometimes the flotsam of the Big Bang and exploding stars can condense into a planet rather than another star, which is probably what happened in the case of our planet. Earth. From the abundance of elements on our Earth s crust shown in figure 1.2.8, it can be seen that the material of Earth is essentially that of the sun, depleted in the more volatile elements such as helium and hydrogen. 

Kirshner, Robert P. The Extravagant Universe Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 2002. 

We are discovering exciting parallels between man s experiments on earth and events in distant stars. For example, one of the heavy transuranium isotopes—californium-254, which decays by spontaneous fission with a half-life of 55 days —is now thought to account for the huge energy production in certain types of super-novae (exploding stars) whose intensity of light emission decays with a half-life of 55 days. 

Hartquist, Thomas W., and Williams, David A. (1995). The Chemically Controlled Cosmos Astronomical Molecules from the Big Bang to Exploding Stars. New York Cambridge University Press. 

The conditions in those innermost regions of a core-collapse supernova are closely linked to the working of the explosion mechanism. Since the latter is not yet fully understood, it is not yet clear whether the required conditions can actually be established. Therefore, a number of alternative scenarios are still discussed, such as jet outflows from asymmetrically exploding stars. The search for the site of the r-process remains a major focus of research. 

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