XPost: rec.pyrotechnics 
 From: dukerx_NG02@dukerx.no-ip.com 
  
 A supernova is ... created when a really large star that has depleted its 
 fusion fuel, wich is hydrogen, and can no longer maintain the nuclear fusion 
 reaction that has been going on inside the star for a very long time. This 
 lack of constant outward pressure makes the star collapse under it's own 
 weight, and it's mass is compressed into a very dense form, wich is not very 
 stable, and at some point in that process the pressure get too much and the 
 star is blasted into dust. 
     Note that this is a very simplified version what causes a supernova. 
 Also, there is much that is not known about this event in a star's life. 
  
 To make a supernova, you'd need to accelerate the fusion proces in the star 
 to make it spend it's fuel at a higer rate, or by magic or some other yet 
 unknown means remove the hydrogen fuel from the star. 
  
  
 Just a sub-note... I've heard that 30% of the american population doesn't 
 know that our sun is in fact a star, not very unlike the stars that can be 
 spotted on the night sky... This is a rumor here in the land of the Vikings, 
 but I would like to know if anyone else have heared such ... stories. 
 Somehow, I felt this was the right thread to post the last question... 
 "G.K. Konnig"  wrote in message 
 news:3ff97a0d.0409111847.6a5051f@posting.google.com... 
 > I have to blow up a few suns, how can I create supernovae and what do I 
 need? 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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