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.A Universe Without Supernovae .A Universe Without Supernovae

Use this active game to illustrate the value of supernovae in the universe. Visitors discover that almost all elements that make up the Earth and all its living things were made inside stars that go supernova. Without supernovae to disperse these elements, the universe as we know it couldn't exist.

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