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   Norleif Slettebų to G.K. Konnig   
   Re: How to create a supernova?   
   15 Sep 04 00:26:18   
   
   XPost: rec.pyrotechnics   
   From: dukerx_NG02@dukerx.no-ip.com   
      
   A supernova is ... created when a really large star that has depleted its   
   fusion fuel, wich is hydrogen, and can no longer maintain the nuclear fusion   
   reaction that has been going on inside the star for a very long time. This   
   lack of constant outward pressure makes the star collapse under it's own   
   weight, and it's mass is compressed into a very dense form, wich is not very   
   stable, and at some point in that process the pressure get too much and the   
   star is blasted into dust.   
       Note that this is a very simplified version what causes a supernova.   
   Also, there is much that is not known about this event in a star's life.   
      
   To make a supernova, you'd need to accelerate the fusion proces in the star   
   to make it spend it's fuel at a higer rate, or by magic or some other yet   
   unknown means remove the hydrogen fuel from the star.   
      
      
   Just a sub-note... I've heard that 30% of the american population doesn't   
   know that our sun is in fact a star, not very unlike the stars that can be   
   spotted on the night sky... This is a rumor here in the land of the Vikings,   
   but I would like to know if anyone else have heared such ... stories.   
   Somehow, I felt this was the right thread to post the last question...   
   "G.K. Konnig"  wrote in message   
   news:3ff97a0d.0409111847.6a5051f@posting.google.com...   
   > I have to blow up a few suns, how can I create supernovae and what do I   
   need?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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