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The document 'Dying Stars and the Birth of the Elements' serves as a student manual for an introductory astronomy lab exercise, focusing on the life cycle of stars, particularly their death and the subsequent formation of elements through supernova explosions. It provides background information on X-ray astronomy, specifically using the XMM-Newton Observatory to observe supernova remnants like Cas A. The manual includes instructions for using software to analyze X-ray spectra, guiding students through observing astronomical targets, collecting data, and interpreting results to understand elemental abundances and physical properties of gas in supernova remnants.

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What are the elements in a dying star?

After the hydrogen in a stars core is exhausted, the star fuses helium to form progressively heavier elements, such as carbon and iron. As this fuel runs out, the star either explodes into a supernova, seeding the universe with those elements, or violently collapses, creating neutron stars and black holes.

What does a dying star produce?

When the core runs out of hydrogen, these stars fuse helium into carbon just like the sun. However, after the helium is gone, their mass is enough to fuse carbon into heavier elements such as oxygen, neon, silicon, magnesium, sulfur and iron.

What does the death of stars have to do with the birth of stars?

The expanding supernova remnant, rich with heavy elements, including mass injected by the now-dead stars giant and supergiant winds, finds its way back to the interstellar clouds. Its detritus becomes the material that will ultimately make new stars, thus completing the cycle.

What element will trigger the death of a star?

But once their core has turned entirely to iron, no more fusion will happen there. The outward pressure drops and the tremendous gravity of these enormous stars takes over. Everything collapses inwards toward the core.

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