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Andy Howell

@d_a_howell

Astronomer at Las Cumbres Observatory, faculty at UCSB. Film critic at Film Threat, Copernicus at AICN, Sometime TV dude, one half of @ScienceVsCinema.

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A shock wave explodes the star, and when it "breaks out," it heats the outer layers to hundreds of thousands of degrees. That produces high energy photons, which turn the gas around the star into a plasma, producing a characteristic signature.