At times, enough gas builds up for the dwarf to collapse, leading its carbon to fuse nearly instantly and the dwarf to explode in a Type I supernova, which can outshine a galaxy for a few months.

有时，足够的气体会积累起来导致这颗矮星发生坍缩，使得它的碳原子几乎能立即聚合，而爆炸成为I类超新星，它在几个月内的亮度能超过一个星系。

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All that carbon and oxygen — byproducts of the helium fusion process — build up in its core. At that point the star will shed its outer layers and the core will form a White Dwarf.

所有氦聚变中的附产物碳和氧在它的核心逐渐积聚，这期间它将失掉较外层物质，核心最终枯萎成为白矮星。

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And in 2004, they found that a white dwarf near the constellation Centaurus, BPM 37093, wasmade of crystallized carbon weighing 5 million trillion trillion pounds.

2004年，他们在半人马星座附近发现一颗白矮星，将其称之为“BPM 37093”。 这颗白矮星由晶化碳构成，重量为500万*1万亿*1万亿磅。

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And we don't make the connection that gasoline, once burned, turns into its chemical sibling, carbon dioxide, whose effects on our environment will globally dwarf the catastrophe happening in the Gulf.

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