Supernova discovery - digital animation

This animation shows an artist's rendering of the shock wave discovered by Princeton University's Alicia Soderberg and a team of scientists. A supernova is born when the core of a massive star (the blue orb) runs out of nuclear fuel and collapses under its own gravity to form an ultradense object known as a neutron star. The shock wave erupts and ripples through the star, emitting X-rays (seen here as bright white light). The remnants of the explosion cool (the white light gets smaller), and then the visual light from the supernova glows (seen as yellow clouds). The fading white dot in the middle of the animation represents a newly born neutron star.
Courtesy NASA/Swift/Skyworks Digital/Dana Berry
Story at blogs.princeton.edu/paw

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• princeton
• supernova
• nasa
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• soderberg

[ChronicallyConfused]

that's a tough question to answer because it's pretty vague. You can do a lot with the spectrum. You can see light light it gives off, the elements its made of, in which direction it's moving. If you are wondering if we can see them only in infrared or xray wavelengths, or if we can see them in visible, the answer would be we can see them in the visible spectrum

[Larrymh07]

@ChronicallyConfused Thank you for reponding. I wonder what spectrum this light would be.

[ChronicallyConfused]

@Larrymh07 yes they still emit visible light. Pulsars for instance are spinning neutron stars that give off strong beams of light at their poles acting as city-sized lighthouses.

[Larrymh07]

@ChronicallyConfused Would a neutron star emit visible light?

[nelworksbizz]

Is this done with Adobe After Effects

[ChronicallyConfused]

It can be a black hole or a neutron star. A white dwarf does not occur with supernovas, only planetary nebulae.

To be a little more precise, supernovas are caused from supergiant or red giant stars ONLY. Once they go supernova, the remnant will be a neutron star if its mass is above 1.4 solar masses. Or the remnant will become a black hole if the remnant is above somewhere around 3 solar masses

A planetary nebula occurs with a star that is smaller than the two types mentioned above.

[bonnome2]

a white dwarf star?

[hyrael2]

Not really it's mostly a pulsar.

[fuckjump]

it can be a black hole

[MrCARC]

whats the thing that remains?