QuickTime Animation of Solar Impact
QuickTime Animation of Solar Impact
If an object impacts a star like our sun, what would happen? I've created an animated GIF of this happening:
In the first few frames of this animation, an object -- such as an asteroid or comet -- is moving towards the star from the left. The star's core is a ball-of-light. Its outer envelope of material has been primarily made by induction from the core. The rest of the material has been gravitationally accreted. As the object impacts the outer plasma envelope: a splash of material is ejected to the left, and a massive wave sweeps around the outer envelope to the right. This massive wave is made of ionized plasma. (It is assumed for this example that the impacting object is not big enough nor has enough energy to penetrate the outer envelope and hit the core. The Ball-of-Light Particle Model predicts this is one cause of Supernovas.) The moving electromagnetic field in the wave induces waves on the core of the star. One such wave is represented by a vertical black line that moves across the core -- initially from left to right. As the outer wave reaches the right pole, material from the outer envelope could splash off the pole, but the majority of the wave's energy would rebound and travel back to the left. As the wave on the stellar core reaches its right pole, balls-of-light are ejected. Some of them may explosively decay within the outer plasma envelope creating a solar mass ejection. Some of them may be ejected with enough force from the core to pass through the outer plasma envelope and pop out of the surface of the star -- as is depicted in the middle frames of this animation. Some of the ejected balls-of-light decay explosively and are depicted here as small black crosses. Ejected plasma is depicted by dots of gray. The largest ejected ball-of-light is depicted as gray because it is "fizzling" as it decays -- essentially creating a very thin outer plasma layer similar to a white dwarf star. Not only does the wave in the plasma of the star rebound, the wave on the core rebounds and travels back to the left. As it reaches the left pole of the star the wave ejects more balls-of-light.
I have created a new animation depicting how a larger object -- such as our moon -- would affect a star, if it impacted the star with enough velocity to puncture through the outer plasma envelope of the star and hit the core. I believe, this is how a pulsar is created.
