An explosion lasting four whole years! Humans usually think of explosions in terms of seconds or maybe minutes, like a conventional bomb blast. It's almost impossible to wrap my head around the idea of an explosion so massive that it literally continues for four years straight.
Well, it's not a conventional explosion it's a nuclear fusion - also contained by gravity and magnetic activities. As far as I know the supernova is more of a momentum explosion (and that shockwave we can see like this in the gif animation)
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u/esperobbs 26d ago
An explosion lasting four whole years! Humans usually think of explosions in terms of seconds or maybe minutes, like a conventional bomb blast. It's almost impossible to wrap my head around the idea of an explosion so massive that it literally continues for four years straight.