../index.html Astronomy for Everyone Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 ../index.html#comment-182145 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:56:04 +0000 http://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=126#comment-182145 […] About 7,000 light years away from Earth lies the aftermath of a massive star that went supernova. In its wake we see gorgeous wispy interstellar gases spreading out in a non-uniform manner. The way this happened is a massive star (at least 8 times larger than our Sun) went through stellar death process (where it exhausts all its hydrogen it works its way through heavier elements like helium>carbon>oxygen etc.) and eventually the star’s core collapsed when it lost stability. This resulted in one of the most spectacular explosions in the universe – a supernova. (Want more details on how supernovae happen? Read my article here). […]

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