Time Lapse Movie of the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

[oopoo64]

It's coming right for us!!!

[Spookaduke100]

Its gohan powering up. Takes about as long.

[rommelfcc]

nice!

[700007123]

1:17 it's dragon!

[malygosc]

lol

[narungga]

damn universe, you scary!

[popnstart]

Those are some damn mad molecules and they are gonna burn somethin' if it gets in their way. Hey Honey, grab the bag of marshmallows and a couple coat hangars.

[xxxKERNKRAFT400xxx]

beautiful colors

[MaXG65]

AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL!

[ORE0789]

Light is electromagnetism

[heffenuts]

what I'd like to hear is an explanation of these occurences w/ something better than the modern day majority belief would suggest. Gravity? Supermassive blackholes? Exploding stars w/ 'hot gas' *plasma* traveling millions of miles per hour?? Where's electricity in all this talk eh? Did you know electromagnetic forces are trillions of times more powerful than gravity? And that 99% of the universe is plasma, a ionized gas with visible elctrical currents? thunderbolts for some truth

[EDDIEinWAR]

damn universe you slow.....not

[DaddyOD13]

OK..now show it from the beginning. ;)

[banner1835]

Is it being eaten by a black hole?

[WhoTouchMyGun]

At 1:25 you can see an Oni face. They happen to be very famous in Japanese culture.

[nakedchilli]

absolutely fantastic!

[HamishMcGreigh]

Is this a false color image, or is it visible light based?

[VarykGerai]

@HamishMcGreigh its prolly combined spectrum

[TheFaceOfJohnPants]

look at that white dwarf

[DonaldHat]

hey, the world might end in 2013 so why not live instead of being on youtube?

[TheSammyKaye]

*insert stupid Chuck Norris joke here*

[archados]

Almost seems to be pulsating.

[satmuts]

Is God there ? Perhaps he is sleeping there While people are dying because of hunger , and he don't give a shit about this , stupid motherfaker

[Joelskie20]

@satmuts ..shut the fuck up u fucking idiot...atheist assholle... satan is raring to meet you soon... FUCKIN' RETARD...

[Scanini]

@Joelskie20 lol @satan

[KirabellaAnonymous]

@Joelskie20 oh my, such language!

[120jack920]

@satmuts without sadness there would be no happiness

[IamTheoneWhodreams]

@120jack920 That doesn't even make sence. I think that what you are getting at is that without sadness there would be no joy. Happiness is something that we can only experience in heavan. Happyness is when there is no worry for anything, you feel completely safe all the time, everyone loves you, you are with god, and your at peace. No war, no rivalry, no hate. nothing but love.

[bonkswa]

@IamTheoneWhodreams lame christian

[poppyopi]

Here's some numbers on this. The blast (as we see it) is 300 years old. The star it happened to is 11,000 light years away (hence we're seeing an event that happened 11,000 years ago). The diameter of the cloud is now 10 light years across. This means that it is expanding at an average rate of about 12 million miles per hour (that's above 2% the speed of light) with 2 jets of debris travelling up to 32 million miles per hour. A great piece of time lapse over 7 years, if you think of the scale.

[archados]

@poppyopi Wow incredible. Thankks for putting it into perspective.

[Shazee083]

@poppyopi how did you calculate that all these number you use formula

[xdtnx]

@poppyopi Wait, so the speed of light is not the ultimate speed limit?

[MattJacxobs]

@xdtnx theoreticaly no. But to achive 'light speed' we would need a source of almost limitless power to achive limitless speed, the closest we will ever get is a sola sail that could get u up to 0.9x the speed of light using only star light or a fuck off big laser, or we could try and create anti-mater (yes its real not just in star trek) and use a mater anti-mater reaction to make that much power, but befor we do that we need to sort our shit out on this planet befor we go fuck up some more.

[poppyopi]

@xdtnx No, when I said "above 2%" I didn't mean 2% over the speed of light... I meant about 2% of the total speed of light, maybe a little bit more, like 2.1 or 2.2%... So I actually meant about 40 times slower than the speed of light.

[VarykGerai]

@xdtnx relatively to the space in which the object is it is. Look up Alcubierre drive

[mynameisradar]

@poppyopi wait am confused whats happening to the star.

[dralocon]

@mynameisradar it went boom over 300 years ago

[UshoZeek]

@poppyopi How do you know the blast is 300 years old? It could be 300,000,000 year old light that's been distorted by quasars or even black holes in our own galaxy, and what we're seeing appears to be 300 years old. That's what it is right? It's only a reflection of what might have or have not even happened yet. We do live in the Milky way, where the epicenter is controlled by a super massive black hole, that might /appear/ to have died from insanely massive gravitational forces.

[VarykGerai]

@UshoZeek basis for your estimation?

[pudgimelon]

@poppyopi Yeah, doesn't look like much to the uninformed, but when you consider the scale involved it's pretty frigg'n impressive that we're seeing ANY change at all in seven years. Ten light years across in less than 300 years, HOLY CRAP that's FAST. For comparison, it would take our fastest rockets hundreds of thousands of years to fly across this thing. Dang, that's one BIG explosion.

[ashleylovesdaddy]

Too bad we don't have photos for the last 300 years. Next supernova, we gotta start taking pictures straightaway.

[greenjack7922]

@Reav420

LOL YA, and Jesus buried dinosaur bones to test our faith.... Rofl

[d3st88]

@greenjack7922

Dude, have some respect, jesus must've had a hell of a time digging and burying all those dinosaur bones and fossils with old age technology (shovel and a pick axe, baby!).

[Tobywan83]

@poppyopi

Great info, thanks for explaining.

[d3st88]

@poppyopi

Would you please remove your comment and update it with the correct numbers?

People looking at it get incorrect information. Otherwise it's very helpful. I'll come back and thumbs up it.

[SweetSoundOfGrace]

@poppyopi - doesn't look like it is moving THAT fast. pretty mind boggling numbers...

[MultiParabellum]

@OPOCHKA

Compared to what? Do you know the scale involved?

[HamishMcGreigh]

@MultiParabellum

According to its wikipedia entry, the supernova explosion is more than 10 light years across. If you slice the image into ten parts and compare the rate of movement with the amount of a light year it represents, the stellar debris on the edge of the nova is REALLY moving at almost an 8th of a light year or so/ 2 years.

[MultiParabellum]

@HamishMcGreigh And that's no very fast? Do you have a car that goes faster? :)

[puretroubleman]

I'm sure if you was to put a car in a super nova it would go as fast.

[alpha56667]

this has to be fake right

[Reav420]

It is. Jesus put it here to test your faith.

[lokihsdf036]

i see spider man the 1st time they zoom in .. lol

[marcgian66]

wow... image how much energy is in there

[FeastedUpon]

That neutron star is fucking small and dense. Is that what the explosion really looks like?

[yootubematt]

i wonder how big this explosion is...

cause even though it doesn't look like its moving much, its got to be expanding millions of miles an hour every day.

[KenoshiAkai]

According to the Wikipedia entry the nebula is currently around ten light years in diameter, and that the cloud is expanding around 12 million miles per hour (over 3300 miles per second), with two opposing jets of material moving at 32 million miles per hour (nearly 8900 miles per second).

[yootubematt]

cool thanks.

[mrqcrew]

What's that white spot at the center of the pic?

[Gabronthe]

A neutron star.

[ronpack]

the star that went nova. it's a lot smaller now. all that stuff going outwards came from that star.

[EvolutionIXRR]

look like a color wheel to me

[Surakon58]

Now that is Fantastic!

[fugbot4560]

Hopefully we have a nice long time before the sun goes supernova -.-

[ervin2]

About 5 billion more years.

[Watchoutnub]

and the sun won't be a supernova

[fugbot4560]

Really?

[Verixus113]

Not to mention, our world would've been incinerated by the sun as it expanded long before it went supernova.

[Gabronthe]

Yes the sun is to small to super nova but we can still be incinerated though we would die of the heat before the the earth being like a mars in the far future.

[Chris43FMAH]

-_-"

[jadenplaunt]

looks like a bunch of halo 3 power ups stacked together :P

[SwingingDickOfDoom]

@jadenplaunt dipshit

[Lissette200]

@jadenplaunt ha

[badboyg316]

@jadenplaunt how the hell you post that 2 years ago when this vid was only up for 1 year

[jkand]

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!

[blobrana]

this is just taken off the Chandra X-Ray Observatory site

[MistMrE]

this is just taken off new scientist

[Chris43FMAH]

mmm whats the center called and does it ever move?

[Leeroy49]

yes it does move... every known object of barion matter in the universe does.

[yottaparsec]

neutron star

[Chris43FMAH]

1st dude to watch!