Stellar Explosion Quotes

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.

Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.

If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.