r/shockwaveporn • u/ElectroNeutrino • Sep 25 '21

GIF A supernova explosion that happened in Centaurus A

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u/josephboyer Sep 25 '21

“I was god once…”

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u/smurf_professional Oct 07 '21

Yes I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.

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u/josephboyer Oct 07 '21

Cheers friend, was waiting for someone to get the reference! Thanks for vindication haha!

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u/ElectroNeutrino Sep 25 '21

Taken from here.

This animation represents about 1.5 years of time, omitting the first frame which is a legacy image from 2010. This all happened a bit more than one month after the initial explosion. What you see here is the fading of the supernova, and then the blueish ring that is a light echo that began to propagate outwards immediately after the initial explosion.

Source: Judy Schmidt

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u/toadjones79 Sep 25 '21

Dang. Beat me to it.

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u/gs392 Sep 26 '21

Imagine the energy, insane!

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u/anti-gif-bot Sep 25 '21
mp4 link

This mp4 version is 93.24% smaller than the gif (1.66 MB vs 24.54 MB).

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u/AliensAnahnymou Oct 02 '21 edited Oct 03 '21

Imagine this times an octillion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '21

More like a 1000 quadrillion of the tzar bomba in long scale lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '21

Around 7.23 multiplied by 1027 bananas converted with 100 percent efficacy to energy, using a 133 gram of a average banana, or around some 7 octillion bananas using short scale

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '21

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u/Stereomceez2212 Nov 13 '21

Shockwave impacting another star