The Death of a Star: Type Ia Supernova Simulation

[TheWhatify]

looks like an evil parasite...

[bygota]

looks like a jellyfish.

[Igorgitirana]

Kame- Hame- ha!!!!!!!!

[89990000]

wow good video. thanks!

[Geoffry7575]

Does one have an explanation why the explosion goes only in 1 direction? It's not isotopic, one should think it would go simular to all directions. --> The center of the star is not the center of mass? Is that the explanation why it choses the direction of the lowest density? I can think of a situation where there are multiple ways to go to.

[Helge129]

@Geoffry7575 They started the simulation slightly off-center. In such a case, the high density of the star causes the explosion to "cone out" into one direction.

[JRod8885]

3 people couldn't overcome the 1.4 the solar mass chandrasekhar limit.

[usemoselnitro]

POPCORN!!

[kiwininja100]

what are you useing?

[RSKullcrusha]

im not doubting that there are different types of supernovae from many different sized stars, but my question is: "ASH" from what??? "ash" made of what? how can there be ash on a white darf?

[RSKullcrusha]

@RSKullcrusha carbon?

[eightmillion]

@RSKullcrusha Yes, ash in this situation means nuclear ash, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and other elements; what's left over when a star has spent its fuel of hydrogen and helium.

[CrazyVideoGamer815]

mmmm popcorn

[whitenoise201]

looks like lice :)

[dinoalberini]

It's not a supernova, now is it? Unless the white dwarf has a very bad attitude... However, this asymmetrical proliferation is really refreshing, compared to standard artistic symmetrical representation based just on a hunch. I'd put my money on the computers. Thanks for sharing.

[tenninja1]

It is a supernova, a Type Ia, to be specific. Different from the more well-known Type II supernova, the so-called 'core collapse' supernova.

[dinoalberini]

You' re right, I checked it out afterwards, since I was being not so up to date. Great thing science, not sticking to any dogma, like religion.

[ericsbuds]

oh yeah, this video is what im lookin for. very cool.

[DharokDude]

FAKEE

[arsenal2wins]

This is not Fake, science men did this in a program that they did, it took 5 years to do this

[SuprXer0]

@DharokDude

dude get your facts straight, scientist used many super-computers to actually create this.

[ultrachri]

@DharokDude

yea man, before you yell fake at everything cool on youtube, you might want to see where this actually comes from, this took years to do and over 5000 hours of calculations by an array of supercomputers running something like 28 thousand CPUs back in 2006

[DharokDude]

@ultrachri youre informasion is very wrong i did reserch on this and its fake.

[timberman78]

i loved the music :)

[gongwongton]

is that a popcorn?

[MJDsignTV]

lol this is fake

[beatboxrapper]

yes its a SIMULATION!

[Helge129]

It is called SIMULATION. S- I- M- U- L- A- T- I- O- N

spoken "SIMIULASHUN"

[gyrocam]

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[greengreg418]

for a second it looked like a muffin

[thepostaromana]

no joke. just a boring death of a white dwarf, simulated by a 128.000 processors computer in 60.000 hours of processing. fo real. there are no jokes about astronomy. No. Wait. I know one, Hhaha - One day Venus passes close to the earth and says: What's wrong with you sister?, you look ill !! - I have Homo Sapiens! - What's that? is it bad? - No!, some kind of flees, but it will pass quick! :) fo real

[EarHustlEnt]

lol

[DanielDouradoF]

@thepostaromana A with dwarf dont die like that.

[agentdarkboote]

Hmm... Popcorn, anyone?

[DanielDouradoF]

I assume you are an asshole...

[attributionerr]

looked like an alien head

[geocam2]

That was interesting. I assumed that the carbon detonation expanded spherically from the center of the core. Is this just another example of RT instability?

[ultrachri]

the chances of the reaction starting even near the center is very very rare, seeing as how the core is so compressed. and as soon as the reaction starts, it reaches out of the star to get out of the high pressure were the reaction can proliferate

[Ultrabluu]

Just another asshole !

[Ultrabluu]

You mean you are potty mouth !

[Ultrabluu]

Supernovas are all fiction!

[beaarrrr]

umm...then how come we observe them?

[4cellar2door0]

Go to wikipedia, and look at the picture on the supernova article.

It was taken from Chandra.

Eat shit.

[Ultrabluu]

Brain DEAD !

[Uaeb223]

your a fuckin idiot

[thepostaromana]

:))

[artvandelay13]

it looks like a jellyfish :)

[christianbakker1991]

woow

[pobinr]

Music, for want of a better word, doesn't seem appropriate somehow.

[Unclesamslair]

oh wow, the people at scifi need to study these simulations before they go off making cgi for supernovas.

[exjedi74]

Thanks. iTunes here I come.

[exjedi74]

Anyone know what the music is?

[eightmillion]

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts 1 Track 1