[03/24/2016]
were only 20 minutes in a place of space at more than 1,200 million light years from Earth, but NASA did it. As seen on YouTube, the space telescope ‘Kepler’ captured the first images of an exploding star.
The KSN 2011d superstar is 500 times larger red supergiant than our Sun and 20,000 times brighter , according to NASA he said in a statement. But it is also the protagonist of file shared on YouTube the NASA channel’s Ames Research Center.
The professor of astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame Peter Garnavich, said in a NASA statement, quoted by BBC, that “to put these sizes in perspective, the Earth’s orbit around the sun would fit comfortably within these colossal stars”.
the prized pictures in the file YouTube correspond to first taken to the blast caused by the explosion of the star. It lasted 20 minutes and was rescued by a team of scientists from the observations stored by the’Kepler ‘, according to the Spanish newspaper “El Pais” he said.
CNN said the video sharing on YouTube should to the international team of researchers analyzed about 50 billion stars. The images were taken during three years of monitoring ‘Kepler’ 500 distant galaxies. The aim of the scientists was always to find supernovae.
The supernova is the phenomenon that happens when a star runs out of fuel its hydrogen. The core implodes and produces a shock wave, the same busting on the surface. This is what occurs at the end of his life and that gives a “last brightness” before shutting down forever.
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