Phil PlaitPhil Plait
@BadAstronomer
Sep 4, 2020
There are few events in the Universe more violent than a supernova.
When a star explodes, the energy released is almost unimaginable. In seconds, billons of times the energy of the entire Sun is released; a wave of destruction moves through the doomed star from the inside out, blasting away an octillion tons of gas, sending it raging into space at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
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