Supernovae ~ Professor Samuel Felle (University of Leeds)

A supernovae  occurs when a  star that is  too massive to  die quietly explodes at the end of its life. The energy released in this explosion is so great that the star becomes more than a hundred billion times as bright as  the Sun for  a period  of six months  to a year.   The talk describes these events and  uses the mathematical theory of explosions to illuminate  the relationship  between supernovae and  explosions on Earth, particularly nuclear explosions.