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...main types. A Type II explosion occurs when a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under its own weight. When its matter, falling in from all directions, meets at its center, a shock wave bounces back out in a tremendous explosion that blows apart the star's outermost layers. A Type I explosion occurs when a gravitationally powerful white dwarf star that is part of a binary star system draws gas from its nearby companion. When it accumulates too much, reaching a critical mass about 1.4 times as great as our sun's, it blows...
...Kites. To indulge those soaring spirits further, check out the goods at Outermost Kites (Faneuil Hall). For $4.95 they'll sell you a dragon kite with an 80-inch streamer tail. A limited edition Sanyo rokkaku kite, complete with Samurai warriors, sells...
...Triassic-Jurassic extinction, however, that evidence may exist. Less than 500 miles northwest of the Nova Scotia fossil find is the enormous Manicouagan impact crater, its outermost ring--clearly visible in satellite photographs--measuring more than 90 miles in diameter. Given the margins of error in dating, the age of the crater (about 214 million years) makes it suspect in the 200 million-year-old extinction...
Aumann and Gillett quickly realized that the heat was coming not from the star but from the region around it, extending out about 7.4 billion miles, or twice the distance to Pluto, the sun's outermost known planet...
...about 150 trillion miles. Scientists believe the star to be about twice the size and 60 times as bright as the sun, with the particles extending in an envelope or disk about 7.4 billion miles in radius, approximately twice the distance from the sun to the orbit of its outermost planet...