What happens when a star dies?

It burns heavier elements until iron accumulates, leading to a collapse.

Electrically neutral particles created during a star's collapse.

How are neutrinos detected?

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the South Pole.

An equation that calculates the energy deposited during a supernova.

Ghostly neutrinos would vaporize everything on Earth before any light reached us.

Neutrinos, created during a star's collapse, carry 99% of a supernova's energy and are weakly interacting particles that can pass through matter without impact, posing a significant threat during a supernova event.
The novae equation can calculate the energy deposited into a human volume during a supernova, revealing a lethal dose of radiation, highlighting the potential catastrophic consequences of a supernova event, such as the sun going supernova and vaporizing everything on Earth before any light reaches us.

What happens when a star dies?
It burns heavier elements until iron accumulates, leading to a collapse.
What are neutrinos?
Electrically neutral particles created during a star's collapse.
How are neutrinos detected?
Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the South Pole.
What is the novae equation?
An equation that calculates the energy deposited during a supernova.
What would happen if the sun went supernova?
Ghostly neutrinos would vaporize everything on Earth before any light reached us.

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Every 50 to 100 years, a star in the Milky Way explodes in a supernova, outshining all other stars combined for weeks to months.
Our sun, though it will expand into a red giant, is not heavy enough to go supernova; it would need 10 to 100 times its current mass.
The process of a star dying involves burning heavier elements like carbon, neon, and oxygen until iron accumulates in the core, leading to a collapse.
Neutrinos, electrically neutral particles, are created in massive quantities during a star's collapse, carrying 99% of a supernova's energy.
Neutrinos are extremely weakly interacting particles, passing through matter without impact due to their minuscule effective collision area.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the South Pole uses a cubic kilometer of ice to detect neutrinos, which are otherwise hard to detect.
During a supernova, the neutrino flux from the sun increases drastically, with higher energy and impact area, posing a lethal threat to life on Earth.
An equation, the novae equation, calculates the energy deposited into a human volume during a supernova, revealing a lethal dose of radiation.
If the sun went supernova, the ghostly neutrinos would vaporize everything on Earth before any light from the explosion reached us, leading to a silent apocalypse.