Astronomy, can someone clear this up for me? Stars?

Stars, or a specific something inside of a star is heavier than ALL the elements on the periodic table of elements? Is that correct? What is that something?Astronomy, can someone clear this up for me? Stars?
This is incorrect. The heaviest element present in any star would be iron. Generally, most stars are composed of hydrogen and helium.





Now! Lets look at the example of something like a pulsar/neutron star. With that, it's composed virtually entirely of iron. The difference is that because there was once a star in it's place, the iron is compressed to a point beyond comprehension (one tablespoon of neutron star would weigh about the same as the empire state building!). However in the end, it's still just iron. Think about how you can have two weights of the same size, but one is heavier even though they're made of the same material. You can compress metals, but only to a certain point with current technology. It's kind fo rough to beat that Nuclear strong and weak force.Astronomy, can someone clear this up for me? Stars?
Elements heavier than iron, like gold and uranium, are created by stars, probably during a supernova. That is how they came to be here on earth.


Anything heavier than uranium is so unstable and short-lived, that even if it was created inside a supernova (and that is an event we cannot investigate, so we aren't sure what is created there), the half-life of it meant it decayed long ago.
The heaviest thing in a star is iron. If it gets too much iron the star will explode leading to a super-nova(when the star converts hydrogen to helium then it keeps converting until iron). Merging of iron atoms don't work so the star blows up.





Iron is not the heaviest element on the periodic table, it is far from it.





You might be talking about black holes. They are ';heavy';. Its gravitation field strength can even suck in light.
basically everyone is right (from what i glanced at) inside a ';living'; star the heaviest element possible is iron and that is just before the end of the star's life, a few slightly heavier elements are created before the star goes boom but most of the rest are created by the shockwave from the explosion hitting gas that the star puffed off earlier.





a neutron star (all pulsars are neutron stars but not all neutron stars are pulsars) is basically nothing but neutrons, about 10-15 km across but up to 8 times heavier than our sun. now that could be argued as the heaviest single thing.





but if the star is heavier it will collapse into a singularity. a singularity is a region of space witrh zero radius and infinite density. this thing would be the heaviest object possible since a singularity can weigh more than an entire galaxy but still only be of zero radius. the black hole around the singularity will get larger but the singulerity itself will not.





so i think that might be what you mean.
Kenny and his fan are exactly wrong. There are heavier elements than iron in stars because part of the star is made up of material from previous stars. Only the first stars were limited to iron and under. Neutron stars are not made of iron either. Once the matter degenerates to the neutron state, protons cease to exist, and there are no elements. Just neutrons.
Kenny there is exactly Correct.


I'm quite suprised. :D
No, that is not correct. Where did you hear that?