Thanks for posting, Red Badger.
This is the most concise and best written essay on supernovas I have read.
My previous knowledge was just the BOOM basics.
Photos of the Mass Ejection are completely amazing.
Betelgeuse is the only star that can be seen as a ‘disk’ through a earth telescope because of its huge size, as big as the orbit of Jupiter, and its relatively close proximity of 600 LY......