Hi! I'm a huge fan. I have a question of curiosity. I read that once a star has iron in it's core, further fusion cannot take place, and so the iron just builds in size as more hydrogen/helium/etc smashes into it. This is the death-call of a star.
If we somehow sent a huge mass (I know huge for us would be minuscule in the Sun, over 1 million times the size of Earth) of iron into the sun...would we accelerate our sun's death?
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Hi! I'm a huge fan. I have a question of curiosity. I read that once a star has iron in it's core, further fusion cannot take place, and so the iron just builds in size as more hydrogen/helium/etc smashes into it. This is the death-call of a star.
If we somehow sent a huge mass (I know huge for us would be minuscule in the Sun, over 1 million times the size of Earth) of iron into the sun...would we accelerate our sun's death?
Thanks!
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