What would happen if you fell into a Wolf-Rayet star? These stars are not ordinary. They are the rarest and most enormous stars in existence. They shine and tear themselves apart with fierce stellar winds. Imagine diving into the blazing chaotic depths of one of these pre-supernova giants with Mind Astray. You would face instant destruction from waves of deadly radiation and unstoppable winds moving faster than the speed of sound. You’d encounter the star’s turbulent outer layers, its dense and violent core, and unimaginable temperatures in its center reaching tens of millions of Kelvin where heavy elements are formed. Learn about what makes Wolf-Rayet stars so extraordinary: their incredible energy brief lifespans, and essential role in creating the elements that make life possible. Prepare yourself to explore energy at its purest form complete destruction, and the origins of life itself.
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00:00forget stars that just shine even the bright o-type stars pale in comparison in the universe
00:15some stars don't just exist they roar ripping themselves apart in a chaotic battle against time
00:21these are wolf riot stars they are rare gigantic and throw pieces of themselves out into
00:29space in a wild display think of them as living breathing explosions waiting to happen
00:35now imagine the unimaginable what if by some disastrous twist of fate you were falling right
00:43into the middle of one of these massive dying stars this wouldn't be a simple fall it would be
00:50instant destruction complete conversion into pure energy swallowed by some of the universe's most
00:56intense forces this would be the ultimate unbeatable end a star can collapse when it uses up its fuel
01:07the core starts to shrink and the outer layers expand outward this can cause a massive explosion
01:14scientists refer to this as a supernova wolf riot stars act like the universe's greatest performers
01:22they are rare dazzling and burn through life before ending in dramatic fashion these massive stars
01:29weigh anywhere from 20 to 250 times as much as our sun they have already shed their outer hydrogen layers
01:37exposing cores rich in helium carbon and nitrogen this information comes from cosmos at swinburne university of
01:46technology their surface temperatures soar between 30 000 kelvin and beyond 200 000 kelvin according
01:54to a 2018 study from astro phco as for brightness they shine hundreds of thousands to millions of times
02:02brighter than our sun these stars are known for their powerful stellar winds which blow away mass equal to
02:09earth's about every few hundred years as detailed by eso on wolf riot stars sure please go ahead and
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02:27falling toward a wolf ray at star would mean in fast trip one beyond anything people could imagine
02:33the massive gravitational pull of a wr star grabs hold with incredible strength pulling you in with a force
02:40too powerful to resist according to university of oregon stellar evolution in just milliseconds your speed
02:49would soar to a fraction of light speed racing toward a spot where nothing not light particles or any trace
02:56of you could escape that overwhelming blazing blue white or maybe yellow glow from the star would be the
03:04last thing your senses experience after that there would be nothing long before gravity comes into play to seal
03:16your fate you'd run into the star's standout trait it's thick lightning fast stellar wind wolf ray at stars lose
03:25mass at rates that are millions of times greater than the sun throwing out material at speeds between
03:31one thousand and five thousand kilometers each second according to nature astronomy 2020 this isn't
03:38some gentle breeze blowing past it's like a violent storm of high energy particles if you were in a
03:45spaceship or even exposed in your own body this flood of charged particles and powerful photons would tear
03:52smash and vaporize you long before you'd ever get near the star
04:01the first layer you might encounter on a wolf ray at star is its corona coronal temperatures on such
04:08stars can shoot up into tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of kelvin the astrophysical journal
04:14in 2019 discussed b star corona often linking them to the extreme environment of o stars this plasma
04:22while spread is powerful and moving if you brought any shielding for protection or even dared to enter
04:29yourself it would be destroyed not turned into just gas but broken down into loose atomic nuclei and free
04:37electrons no solid object can survive there the extreme heat and energy would tear matter apart at its most
04:44basic level
04:50long before you'd even get close to the denser layers the overpowering blast of electromagnetic radiation from
04:56a wolf ray at star would destroy you intense waves of ultraviolet light x-rays and brutal gamma rays would rip
05:05through you not just damaging cells but breaking apart your molecules and atoms the very forces that keep your
05:12matter together would lose the fight leaving nothing of you but a flash of energy and light in mere seconds
05:19the disintegration would be so complete it defies everyday understanding according to national institute
05:26of standards and technology atomic spectra database
05:34wolf riot stars burn so and their winds blow so that they lack a clear photosphere like the sun
05:41their outer layers are packed with thick moving plasma making it impossible to identify a solid surface
05:48what we see as their surface is more of an illusion it's the point where their winds thin out enough
05:55to allow light to shine through according to royal astronomical society 2017. if you tried to land
06:04there wouldn't be an actual surface to hit you'd dive straight into a chaotic mass of super hot ionized
06:11particles shaped by their intense radiation and winds
06:19if you dove deeper into the theoretical layers you'd reach the star's colossal radiative zone
06:25energy from the core moves outward here as photons bouncing around and absorbed by the
06:31star's thick plasma in a wr star this process works with ruthless efficiency to you it would feel like
06:40being swallowed by a dazzling ultra dense energy field every part of your body would be a non-stop
06:46chaotic interaction with countless photons trapped in unbearable heat and crushed by intense pressure
06:53according to nasa living with a star program
07:00the pressure in a wolf ray at star defies anything humans can understand these stars weigh tens to
07:07hundreds of times more than our sun the forces they generate are billions or trillions of times stronger
07:14than anything on earth gravity there would crush fundamental particles packing
07:20them into densities we can imagine their very structure would break down under the star's extreme pull
07:27leaving no trace of what they once were according to california institute of technology stellar physics
07:40in the end your journey takes you straight to the core of the star
07:44here lies the most intense furnace where nuclear fusion happens at unimaginable speeds
07:51while younger stars focus on fusing hydrogen the core of a wolf ray at star actively fuses helium into
07:58carbon and oxygen it may even form heavier elements like neon magnesium or silicon according to astrophysical
08:07journal 2021 the core burns at temperatures reaching hundreds of millions of kelvin under pressures that
08:14defy comprehension inside the wolf riot core the idea of you would dissolve at the tiniest level
08:27electrons would separate from your base particles turning them into part of a blazing plasma made of exposed
08:33nuclei these particles would dive straight into nuclear reactions producing not helium but also heavier and
08:40heavier elements through the cno cycle and similar processes you wouldn't just disappear your atoms would
08:48merge into the chaotic process of creation and destruction forever becoming part of the star your essence would
08:56transform into some of the densest elements in the universe such as iron cobalt and nickel which the star would
09:04later scatter through a supernova explosion falling into a wolf riot star would happen so quickly
09:14and that it goes beyond anything we think of as death it would wipe you out erasing everything
09:21the extreme radiation crushing weight and intense stellar winds would destroy all matter down to its core
09:29in less than a fraction of a millisecond you would become nothing more than a tiny invisible flash of energy
09:35and ionized gas wolf riot stars burn through their lives at an astonishing pace their lifespan stretches a few
09:47hundred thousand to a few million years according to the european southern observatory these stars use up
09:54their nuclear fuel at an intense rate shining before fading fast when their time ends they explode as either a
10:02type ibe or type ike supernova after the explosion they collapse into something dense like a neutron star or quite
10:11often a black hole along the way they spread heavy elements that are critical to making planets and life
10:24because of their intense brightness and strong stellar winds wolf ray at stars don't have a habitable zone
10:32any planet circling one would face constant deadly radiation and lose its atmosphere due to
10:38those fierce winds according to planetary habitability laboratory university of puerto rico at arecibo these
10:48stars are not places where life can begin instead they act as cosmic factories that create materials needed for
10:55stars and galaxies in the future
10:57this chilling idea sheds light on the intense and destructive cycles shaping the universe wolf riot
11:09stars play a key role in cosmic growth these stars produce most elements heavier than helium like carbon and
11:17oxygen and even create elements up to iron before meeting their explosive end when these stars go supernova
11:25they spread these elements throughout the galaxy this process creates the building blocks needed to create new stars
11:32planets and life including us
11:42facing the overwhelming power of a wolf riot star goes beyond simple wonder it makes our existence feel
11:49insignificant like a faint whisper lost in a deafening cosmic storm it shows us that massive and uncaring
11:57forces shape the universe and reveals the intense violent energy behind the creation of everything familiar to us
12:09the curiosity of humans our need to ask what if and imagine even the wildest scenarios drives
12:17scientific progress exploring these extraordinary situations not helps us understand the amazing
12:23physics inside the most powerful stars but also increases our respect for the thrilling and sometimes
12:30frightening beauty of the universe
12:37taking a hypothetical trip into a wolf ray at star brings an astonishing final moment
12:43you wouldn't just face fire crushing gravity extreme heat and a roaring stellar wind would all come
12:50together with the violent forces of active nucleosynthesis this trip would result in an instant
12:56and total merging with one of the universe's most mysterious powerful and fleeting stellar giants
13:03what part of this thrilling and intense dive into a wolf ray at star surprised you the most
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