  We point out similarity of thermodynamic conditions reached in intermediate
energy nuclear collisions and in supernova explosions. We show that a
statistical approach, which has been previously applied for nuclear
multifragmentation reactions, can be very useful for description of
electro-neutral stellar matter. Then properties of hot unstable nuclei
extracted from analysis of multifragmentation data can be used for construction
of a realistic equation of state of supernova matter.
