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... Elements in the Aftermath . ... CXC , NASA Explanation: Massive stars spend their brief lives furiously burning nuclear fuel. ... And so a supernova explosion , a massive star's inevitable and spectacular demise, blasts back into space debris enriched in heavier elements to be incorporated into other stars and planets (and people!) ... Cataloged as G292.0+1.8, this young supernova remnant in the southern constellation Centaurus resulted from a massive star which exploded an estimated 1,600 years ago...

An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . ... d) The Age of the Chemical Elements . ... Some isotopes (forms of the element with different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus) of these elements are radioactive; they change into other isotopes at a rate that can be measured accurately in the laboratory. ... The Ancient Universe - The Age of the Expanding Universe - The Age of the Oldest Stars - The Age of Light From Distant Galaxies - The Age of the Chemical Elements | ...

... 2001 October 26 . Elements in the Aftermath . ... CXC , NASA . ... And so a supernova explosion , a massive star's inevitable and spectacular demise, blasts back into space debris enriched in heavier elements to be incorporated into other stars and planets (and people! ... Just below and left of center, a point like object in the Chandra image suggests that the enriching supernova also produced a pulsar in its aftermath, a rotating neutron star remnant of the collapsed stellar core. ...

... The explosion of a star as a Supernova is certainly one of the most energetic events observable in the whole universe, and their radiation covers the whole band from radio to gamma-rays, accompanied with neutrino emission. ... Type Ia SNe are supposed to result from mass transfer inside a binary system consisting of a white dwarf star and an evolving giant star, which results in a termonuclear explosion. ... Core-collapse Supernovae . ... For comments please contact: gcresci@arcetri.astro.it . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... even the brightest star won't last forever.' ... The pressure and heat are so enormous inside the star's core that hydrogen is fused into helium. ... A star like the Sun has enough hydrogen to keep its fusion fires going for billions of years, but a star like Rigel, a massive star in Orion, burns its hydrogen so fast it may run out in just a few million years. ... The problem is, at this point something bad happens: silicon fuses to iron. ...