Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Confirmed: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova

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Our Sun may seem pretty impressive: 330,000 times as massive as Earth, it accounts for 99.86 percent of the Solar System's total mass; it generates about 400 trillion trillion watts of power per second; and it has a surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees Celsius. Yet for a star, it's a lightweight.



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