Physics 212 Project
Super Novas

An image of pulsar winds in the Crab Nebula, caused by supernovas

For my web project I chose to research supernovas. Supernovas peeked my interest as a kid playing video games. Seemed like every bad guy had some 'supernova' ability to launch stars at me and explode my face into oblivion. When I learned that a Supernova was a real thing and was what happend to a dieing star my curiosity was peeked. When I learned that black holes are remnants of supernovas my curiosity never stopped. Now I'll dive into a brief description of supernovas as we know them in space, then explore in detail the various types of Supernovas.      To be more precise a Supernova is what occurs when a star is destroyed in space. The force of the explosion creates a luminous burst of radiation, or gamma ray bursts, and then continues to implode on itself untill all that remains is a black whole. The resulting shock wave is the dieing star spewing its mass out into the universe at a velocity of 30,000 km/s, or 10% of the speed of light. Supernova's generally occur into ways. One way for a Supernova to start is if the star collides with a neighboring star or large mass. The force from that collision creates such force that it triggers a nuclear reaction that continues until the star and the neighboring mass explodes into a Supernova; these are known as Type II Supranovae. The other way a Supernovas are triggered is when the star burns out of its nuclear energy. The result is affect that causes the star to implode creating the gamma ray bursts.

An image of Supernova remnants

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Properties of Supernova

Supernovae Type I

Supernovae Type II