Caught For The First Time: The Early Flash Of An Exploding Star

[julianh72 (Julian)]

The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave—what astronomers call the “shock breakout”—has been captured for the first time in the optical wavelength or visible light by NASA's planet-hunter, the Kepler space telescope.
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The shock breakout itself lasts only about 20 minutes, so catching the flash of energy is an investigative milestone for astronomers.

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kep...exploding-star

Amazing!

[xelasnave]

My head is spining.
Is the vid real time.

[bojan]

It isn't.
The movie shows 120 minutes (see diagram at the bottom right side)

[speach (Simon)]

it's just an animation and not in real time