Freaky Fzx Friday - Death of a Big Star

Our sun will die a boring death but other stars end their normal fusion cycle with in spectacular ways.

Very large stars can become black holes.  Slightly smaller ones might become neutron stars after exploding.

Those pulsating neutron stars were originally discovered by the regular beams of energy they spin out.

Be glad that some stars supernova.  Stars are where elements larger than hydrogen are made but the normal fusion process of stars can only create elements up to atomic number 26.

Everything above iron is formed in the violent process of the supernova.

So it seems that we are a second generation star system.  All those elements above iron on our earth can only have come from the huge gas cloud resulting from a supernova.  We are stardust.