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    Supernovae (Clayton, Uhl)

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    A type I supernova occurs in a binary star system where a white dwarf star pulls mass from a nearby star, causing an explosion once it reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. A type II supernova results from a much larger star dying and exploding after exhausting its core, releasing great energy. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that occurred almost 1,000 years ago and contains a rapidly rotating pulsar at its core. After a supernova, a neutron star or black hole may be left behind, and supernovas are believed to have created heavy elements in the universe.

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    A type I supernova occurs in a binary star system where a white dwarf star pulls mass from a nearby star, causing an explosion once it reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. A type II supernova results from a much larger star dying and exploding after exhausting its core, releasing great energy. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that occurred almost 1,000 years ago and contains a rapidly rotating pulsar at its core. After a supernova, a neutron star or black hole may be left behind, and supernovas are believed to have created heavy elements in the universe.

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    A type I supernova occurs in a binary star system where a white dwarf star pulls mass from a nearby star, causing an explosion once it reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. A type II supernova results from a much larger star dying and exploding after exhausting its core, releasing great energy. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that occurred almost 1,000 years ago and contains a rapidly rotating pulsar at its core. After a supernova, a neutron star or black hole may be left behind, and supernovas are believed to have created heavy elements in the universe.

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    Supernovae (Clayton, Uhl)

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    A type I supernova occurs in a binary star system where a white dwarf star pulls mass from a nearby star, causing an explosion once it reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. A type II supernova results from a much larger star dying and exploding after exhausting its core, releasing great energy. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that occurred almost 1,000 years ago and contains a rapidly rotating pulsar at its core. After a supernova, a neutron star or black hole may be left behind, and supernovas are believed to have created heavy elements in the universe.

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    ASTRONOMY PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

    SUPERNOVAE
    By Jack Clayton and
    Caleb Uhl

    What Is A Supernova?
    A supernova is the explosion of a star at the
    end it’s life. The supernova can become billions of
    times brighter than the star before it and at maximum
    brightness can actually outshine an entire galaxy. It
    expels a huge amount of mass, exceeding ten times
    the mass of the star before the supernova, which
    creates a massive shock-wave. This shock-wave
    sweeps up an expanding shell of gas and dust which
    forms supernova remnant. Supernovas can occur
    in two different ways. Either a type one, or a
    type two supernova. The Crab Nebula:
    The Crab Nebula (above) is what is
    Type Two Supernova: remaining from a massive star that
    ended it’s life with a supernova. This
    Type One Supernova: A type two supernova is a
    result of when a star much supernova occurred almost one

    Type one supernovas bigger than the sun dies and thousand years ago when chinese
    occur in binary stars. A causes an explosion. When astronomers recorded it in 1054 in the
    binary star is two stars the core burns out and the
    constellation of Taurus. There is a
    that are very close to star dies it releases great
    forces of energy. In type II neutron star, or a pulsar, at the core of
    each other and orbit
    around each other. One supernovae, mass flows into the nebula that is rotating rapidly,
    of the stars is much the core making it larger
    energizing electrons that are emitting
    smaller than the other and causes it to explode.
    Because it cannot even radiation. The Crab Nebula is about
    star. The smaller star is
    called a white dwarf star. withstand its own weight. 6,500 light-years away from Earth and
    In a type one supernova Neutrons are the only thing 5 light-years across.
    a white dwarf pulls mass that can stop the implosion.
    from another star very But when this happens
    close to it and when it matter bounces off the hard
    reaches about 1.4 times iron in the cold and it turns
    as big as the sun it the implosion into an
    explodes. Type I explosion.
    supernovae show
    hydrogen lines while type
    II supernovae don’t show
    hydrogen lines.

    What Is Left Behind


    After A Supernova?
    After a supernova many different
    What Is Left Behind
    After A Supernova?
    After a supernova many different
    things can be created with the energy and
    matter the explosion expels. Sometimes a
    supernova leaves behind a small but very
    dense star made up of almost all neutrons
    or elementary particles called neutrons.
    This star is called a neutron star. When a
    neutron star becomes magnetized it rotates
    rapidly. This is a pulsar. Other times, the
    supernova creates an invisible object
    called a black whole, which has an
    incredibly powerful gravitational pull. Even
    light can not escape the clutches of the
    black hole. It is believed that supernovas
    created heavy elements like iron, gold, and
    uranium.

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