What Are Supernovae...Really?

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From SdC's Top Story today. More "unexpected" results: "...NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...recently examined a supernova that exploded in 1970, called SN 1970G...<br /><br />"Instead of finding glowing interstellar gas, as they expected, the researchers concluded the remnant’s glow comes from a wind of charged particles that emanated long ago from the dying star. The material was shed by the star thousands to million of years before it went supernova, and the shock of the explosion is overtaking all the previously ejected particles. <br /><br />"That collision heats the material and creates the X-ray glow...<br /><br />"'We have to rethink this notion that a shock wave from the supernova crashes into the interstellar medium to create a supernova remnant,' [the investigative team leader] said. 'The luminous supernova remnants that we see can be created without the need of a dense interstellar medium. In fact, our study showed that all supernovae detected in X-rays over the past 25 years live in a low-density environment.'"<br />More: <b>Surprising End to a Supernova</b><br /><br />So, clearly, something else is going on there that they have not yet figured out. Maybe they're just not asking the right questions.<br /><br />Compare and contrast the above with the following approach: "In the Electric Universe view, a supernova is also an exploding star. But an electric star is a power-consuming 'pinch'—a load—in a galactic circuit of Birkeland currents. The circuit drives the pinch, just as circuits in a house drive the electric lights.<br /><br />"Because the power comes from the circuit, the radiation and 'wind' of an electric star are the effects of the arc discharges that make up the corona, chromosphere and photosphere. Fluctuations in these discharges generate 'double layers' (DLs), which can become unstable and explode into flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs)...<br /><br />"In <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>