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[NoblesseOblige]

Everyone realizes that footage in the OP is an artistic render of it, right?

Shh. It's hilarious seeing people think it's a legit recording.

 

[eggandI]

This thread 😂😂😂😂

 

[GhostWriter24]

Wow, that gif in OP is really tremendous, and it's not even animated!

 

[Stormhammer]

supernova goes pop

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

For those who are interested in this kind of thing, was watching just today a youtube video of a computer simulation of the initial stages of a Type 1a supernova:

https://youtu.be/_zw6Eih7QG0

Pretty sure that's popcorn dude.

 

[Azoor]

I find it amazing that the nature of space makes us see events that happened 1.2 billion years in the past.

 

[KarmaCow]

I'm aware of that, by caught i ment captured the data on the nearby stars fluctuating from the result of this. We're talking one of, if not the most powerful forces in the known universe going off, it has to have a noticable effect on nearby system, if not outright destroying them (though I doubt another star can be easily blown apart, Im curious what actually happen to it.

There have been investigations of then effect of supernovas on the surrounding environment but that's significantly easier to do when it's in our galaxy. For reference, the center of our galaxy is ~25 000 lightyears away, and Andromeda is 2.5 million lightyears away, and the local group of galaxies the Milky Way and Andromeda is apart of is a little over 3 million light years across. The galaxy that this supernova was detected is 1.2 billion light years away. They're not going to be able to resolve much when all they're really getting is an immense change in brightness, such that it was enough to stand out compared to the rest of the galaxy for <1 hour.

 

[Nilaul]

So what happens after the supernova?

So the thing still gives of heat and it's a million times brighter?

 

[Makai]

 

[E92 M3]

 

[metalmania4evr]

Pretty sure that's planet Namek.

Damnit, I was going to say this!

 

[SimleuqiR]

It's an animation, guys. Read source article:

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Ke...rst-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star

This is what they mean by 'catches'

Did they get Snyder to animate the gif?

 

[Nokterian]

This is just to awesome..what a time to see stuff like this going past Pluto and from the animation showing that a supernova really happened.

 

[Venture]

Just be glad it's an animation. If we were close enough to see a supernova in that detail we'd all be vaporized by now.

 

[orochi91]

GIF lookin like a FFVII Summon

+1