After being postponed twice, in March 2009 finally tore the Kepler mission, an artificial satellite equipped with a space telescope that aims to orbit the sun in search for exoplanets. The mission was expected to last three years, with possibility of extension up to six, but in 2013 the mission failed and had to restart the telescope, is currently in a period that will last 83 days monitoring one area, this before turn and start a new scan.
Precisely in this period of observation, Kepler and CCD camera 95 million pixels of resolution, have managed to capture the explosion of a star, an event that only theories and previous research had, so this is a historical fact and never before seen.
a shock wave was responsible
KSN 2011d is the star that exploded a few months ago, is a larger red giant 500,000 times our sun, 20,000 times brighter and was located 1.2 billion light years away.
the explosion was carried out by a shock wave for two weeks caused the star became larger and brighter, which meant that the core of the star was not able to support nuclear fusion in inside and was about to collapse. The first signs are seen on the surface as a series of outbreaks of plasma and from that moment, and for only 20 minutes, is seen as the accumulation of energy is released, which reaches to the neighboring star that make a chain reaction , causing a large explosion comparable with the power of a supernova.
Unfortunately NASA has not posted images of this event as they are trying to adapt so they can be visible. Meanwhile, they have posted a video animation based on photometric observations of Kepler, which gives us an incredible approach to this impressive phenomenon
taken from. xataka
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