Animation: The Early Flash of an Exploding Star, Caught by Kepler
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The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave—what astronomers call the “shock breakout” -- is illustrated in this cartoon animation. The animation begins with a view of a red supergiant star that is 500 times bigger and 20,000 brighter than our sun. When the star’s internal furnace can no longer sustain nuclear fusion its core to collapses under gravity. A shockwave from the implosion rushes upward through the star’s layers. The shockwave initially breaks through the star’s visible surface as a series of finger-like plasma jets. Only 20 minute later the full fury of the shockwave reaches the surface and the doomed star blasts apart as a supernova explosion. This animation is based on photometric observations made by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. By closely monitoring the star KSN 2011d, located 1.2 billion light-years away, Kepler caught the onset of the early flash and subsequent explosion. Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kepler/caught-for-the-first-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star Credit: NASA Ames, STScI/G. Bacon
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Great... another ANIMATION! So exciting! -_-
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In did fat at school 😝
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I wonder if this happens to our sun
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So...in other words...we're screwed in the next X amount of light years
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if it was captured by Kepler, why does it need to be animated? ...........
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Голубая сфера это термояд по фронту идёт?
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Is this real footage or only an animated reproduction ?
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Where's the actual footage? [not interested in an animation]. The animators/software could interpret something wrong & we won't even know it.
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It doesn't disappear how come?
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Very cool, even with the CGI. So is this a flare, a Nova or a Supernova?
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cool
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how many light year telescope capture this explode ?
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I see that Frieza has destroyed the sun 😂😂😂
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So why do we get this image created with computer software, instead of the actual footage from the camera that actually caught this event?
This is all I can find, this stupid yet informational video. -
its kinda like popcorn... kinda just ...pops... :o
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Why couldn't they show what they got on camera instead of simulating what happened? Kind of misleading to me.
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How come the deep shockwave doesn't merge internally to be a smooth sphere at its first exit—are breakthroughs at each inner layer destabilized by mixed-speeds at the interfaces and-or speeding-up and 'refracting' momentum (lens-like) in each next-up lower-Z fusion...
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CGI garbage is all you gonna get from NASA. Good luck finding a real photo of Earth, satellites or any other outter space object. The lie is coming to an end, the Earth is flat with a dome above it, there is no "outter space" and planets are stars, which are lights in the Firmament. Amazing how anyone would believe NASA after the obvious Apollo 11 scam.
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Imagine the tan lines this would cause. Would defo need some kind of super strength 'after Sun' cream.
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Like squishing an orange and getting the juice in your eye.
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