(very large) Star collapses, forms neutron star

[phantom power]

So, this thing ejected almost all of it's mass before it could collapse, and so it was left with enough mass to become a neutron star, but not a black hole.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Astronomers announced Wednesday the discovery of a star 40 times the mass of the Sun that collapsed to form a neutron star instead of a black hole.

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When very massive stars turn into neutron stars instead of black holes, they have a greater influence on the composition of future generations of stars, scientists said. Instead of having most of its mass trapped by a black hole, the star sends more than 95 percent of its mass into the surrounding space, scientists told space.com.

"This means that enormous amounts of heavy elements are put back into circulation and can form other stars and planets," said J. Simon Clark of Britain's Open University.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20051102-15350700-bc-us-star.xml

[SammyBlue]

1. Stop! As a Christian fundamentalist, I cannot accept this

IT was all G-d's will and Jebsus' divine right that this happened!

<puts fingers of ears and eyes> la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. . .I can't hear you. la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
:sarcasm:

[malaise]

3. Hehehehe

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[RethugAssKicker]

2. Is this just a theory...??

Can we teach the alternative... that God sometimes just likes to blow things up now and then!

[htuttle]

4. So theoretically...

...the next thing that will happen (long after I'm dead) is that the expelled matter will form into an accretion disk and ultimately planets?

I hope they find one a little farther along at some point. It would be fascinating to get more data on a planetary system in the process of forming.

[SteppingRazor]

6. Yes, and then...

That stardust that formed the planets will then form the rock of that planets. Life forms eventually. That life evolves into us. We really are made of stars.

[NNadir]

5. I think that the creation of the elements is one of the most beautiful...

things in the universe.

The old Joni Mitchell line "We are stardust, we are golden..." has never become jaded for me, even after Dennis Kucinich plaguerized it.

I love being a fragment of some old star's interior.