White dwarf star explosion into a Ia type supernova

3D simulation of the density and the reaction progress variable in the explosion of Ia type supernova with 6 km resolution for a 18 km initial bubble radius, 42 km ignition offset.

Movie from the paper "Three-Dimensional Simulations of the Deflagration Phase of the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae"
Jordan et al., 2007. Movies at 6 km resolution 3D supernova type Ia simulation.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ia
• supernova
• white
• dwarf
• star
• simulation
• combustion
• physics
• astrophysics

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@zepeake

An average sized star like our sun will eventually turn into a red giant and then when it completely runs out of fuel, into a white dwarf star. There will be no explosion during that process. However, if you dump a whole bunch of hydrogen onto that white dwarf star (from a companion star), it will explode like in the video.

Very large stars (the ones that explode by themselves) don't turn into dwarf stars. They supernova and turn into a neutron star or a black hole.