The Death of a Star: Type Ia Supernova Simulation
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Uploaded by eightmillion on May 7, 2008
This animation shows a thermonuclear flame burning its way through a white dwarf star. The flame produces hot ash, which buoyantly rises as the flame burns. The ash breaks out of but remains gravitationally bound to the surface of the star and collides at a point on the opposite side of the star from the breakout location. The blue shows the approximate surface of the star and the orange shows the interface between the star and the hot ash produced by the flame.
Credit: DOE NNSA ASC/Alliance Flash Center at the University of Chicago.
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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
2 years ago 8
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It is called SIMULATION. S- I- M- U- L- A- T- I- O- N
spoken "SIMIULASHUN"
2 years ago 4
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looks like an evil parasite...
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looks like a jellyfish.
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Kame- Hame- ha!!!!!!!!
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@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.
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wow good video. thanks!
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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.
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3 people couldn't overcome the 1.4 the solar mass chandrasekhar limit.
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POPCORN!!
11 months ago 2
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what are you useing?
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@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.
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