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Hubble Illuminates a Supernova - NASA Scientific Research

.Several transformative paths can easily trigger a supernova surge. One is the death of a supermassive star. When a supermassive celebrity runs out of its hydrogen gas, it starts a stage where it fuses the remaining components to bigger as well as much heavier ones. These last blend reactions produce less and much less external pressure (radiation tension) to balance the celebrity's gravitational pull inward. As heavier elements form in the celebrity's primary, the core itself begins to fully fall down under its own gravitational force, and the star's external layers blow up away in a supernova explosion. Depending on the star's original mass, its own primary might break down to nothing but neutrons, leaving a neutron celebrity, or its own gravitational force may be therefore great that it falls down to a great void.

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