{"id":3924262,"date":"2026-03-05T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-goes-on-inside-a-massive-star-before-it-explodes-as-a-supernova\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:03:28","slug":"what-goes-on-inside-a-massive-star-before-it-explodes-as-a-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-goes-on-inside-a-massive-star-before-it-explodes-as-a-supernova\/","title":{"rendered":"What goes on inside a massive star before it explodes as a supernova?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When most people think of a supernova, they&#8217;re thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They&#8217;ve used up their supply of hydrogen and continue fusing heavier elements until the star can&#8217;t support its own mass. The core collapses and they explode, outshining their entire host galaxy for months.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-massive-star-supernova.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people think of a supernova, they&#8217;re thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They&#8217;ve used up their supply of hydrogen and continue fusing heavier elements until the star can&#8217;t support its own mass. The core collapses and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}