SUPERNOVA - Piano Solo from STORIES OF STARS, VOLUME 1

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This collection of piano pieces begins with the birth of stars and now ends with
the death of massive stars as they age beyond the Red Giant phase. In such stars
the central core will undergo a rapid collapse and produce a tremendous short-
lived explosion! The energy released will blow off most of the outer parts of the
star leaving behind a very compact object – either a neutron star or a black hole.
From the Earth we witness this stellar death as a sudden brightening during
which that single star outshines the combined light of all the other stars in its
galaxy! If a neutron star is left, it will produce pulses like the rotating beacon of
a lighthouse. We call that neutron star a pulsar. This piano piece, Supernova,
starts with the central explosion and ends with the steady beating of the newly
created pulsar.

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