V838 Monocerotis revisited: Space phenomenon imitates art

[edisonxjdrh]

Creo que esa explosion arrasaria con este sistema solar sin dejar rastro alguno, me encanta esta estrella supergigante roja......

[tsns1]

Nice work, puts it into perspective.

[drtony999]

COOL! I LOVE IT!

[Algolei]

Nice!

[MrGnang]

Beautiful

[mvivian100]

The alien looking face in the lowerish left corner during the final frames is kinda cool! No im not suggesting anything, just saying its cool.

[Hewpie]

This highlights the different kinds of interpolation you can get - the simplest being frame blending, morphing, and 3-d interpolation. You would get the same effect as sweeping a band of laser light through wisps of smoke with 3-d interpolation.

It's a real pity the HST didn't image it every few days or so.

I've just had an idea on how to model this using plasticine - bear with me...

[systemcat]

I have a picture of this from NASA on my wall. It captured a beautiful moment of it.

[MaiL0MaN5]

oh dear lord

[JunCTionS]

hi!, nice video and quality. although correct me if I'm wrong... while morphing you're disregarding the phenomenon here. V838 is not a cloud expanding (as are normal supernovas) but light "echoing" (hitting different parts) of an interstellar cloud that shouldn't behave as morphing shows.

I wonder where I can get more equally spaced photos of this beautiful and amazing star/phenomenon

[alexmackrocks]

@JunCTionS OMG you know yur planets! where is Sirius? what galaxy is that from?

[AmyK007]

Wow, beautiful.

[ghanaiangurl]

dat looks so pretty