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Supernova: How To Blow Up a Star

Airdate: Monday, October 2, 2006
Running Time: 00:28:52
Listen: Windows Media | MP3

Astrophysicists are beginning to build the mathematical models complex enough to explain how stars explode. We talk with Thomas Janka of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany. Emily Lakdawalla's Q&A looks out to the time when the New Horizons probe will begin to send us images of Pluto that are better than any taken from Earth. And it's time for miniature golf -- on the Moon -- with Bruce Betts on this week's edition of What's Up! Hear about the night sky, enter the new space trivia contest, and catch the latest space headlines.

Guests

• Thomas Janka, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Related Information

• Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
• New Horizons Pluto Mission Website
• Thomas Janka's Scientific American article, "How to Blow Up a Star"