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Unlike lighter elements, fusing iron consumes more energy than it produces. This does not, however, cause a star to cool. Once a star gets to the point of fusing iron, the core stops producing energy and without the pressure from the heat it produces, the core collapses while the rest of the star is blasted away in an explosion.

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