Taken from this article:
http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-re...exploding-with-the-energy-of-100-million-suns
Supernova 1987A, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Reminds me of the one of many rings.
CAST IT INTO THE FIRE!
ISILDURRRR!!!!
Astronomy / Space We have a picture of a supernova now!
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Taken from this article:
http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-re...exploding-with-the-energy-of-100-million-suns
Supernova 1987A, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Reminds me of the one of many rings.
CAST IT INTO THE FIRE!
ISILDURRRR!!!!
Very cool but not what I expected a supernova to look like.
I prefer the OP's picture, I would REALLY panic if I jumped into a system and saw that!
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is probably right.
*sigh.
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Having read the article properly now, NASA > Wikipedia, woot!
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Stars rotate and the spin affects the explosion material's vectors.
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Jumping into system with supernova? .... Well you would realisticly be dead several LY's away, due to all nasty rays and stuff. Supernovas are exterminators 
But it is fun to thing that the gold ring on your finger originally comes from a supernova a long, long time ago
Cheers Cmdr's
But it is fun to thing that the gold ring on your finger originally comes from a supernova a long, long time ago
Cheers Cmdr's
Yes. And as the the explosion is preceded by rapid compression, conservation of angular momentum means the exploding mass is spinning very fast indeed.
One ring to rule them all...
I hate to put a dampener on the OP's enthusiasm but ...
There are many, many pictures of supernova remnants.
The rotating image posted is just an animation of a 3-D model of the shock-wave.
The interesting thing about the paper presenting the model is that SN1987A has had a good deal of study since it's discovery and so permitted modelling of the various features of this supernova.
There are many, many pictures of supernova remnants.
The rotating image posted is just an animation of a 3-D model of the shock-wave.
The interesting thing about the paper presenting the model is that SN1987A has had a good deal of study since it's discovery and so permitted modelling of the various features of this supernova.
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Yes!
Question for you: Did it bother you when George Lucas added the ring to the Death Star explosion? It bothered me, the death star wasn't spinning. Even if you make an argument that the core was, the mass of the station would have obscured the ring from us and we still would have just seen an explosion, though it would probably have been asymmetric secondary to variations in density of the station.
More pictures of supernovas does not damper my enthusiasm at all. It makes me even more excited.
You have me confused with someone who hates astronomy for some reason.
The three dimensional gif of the remnant though would make for a great starting point for Frontier to add some remnants into the game, at least. But make them colorful!
1. Glad to hear it.
2. I don't see how you can make that assumption, I was just clarifying the situation where your thread title implied that you were not aware of pre-existing supernova remnants being imaged.
Don't take my comments as a criticism when in fact they were intended to be informative.
Its the Darksign!
Probably has to do with centripetal/centrifugal forces and the fact the star's mass is spinning as it explodes. Centripetal forces might tend to bend the flight paths of ejected material into the plane of the star's spin.
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