{"id":159416,"date":"2016-03-23T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=159416"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:23:40","slug":"what-an-exploding-star-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/159416-what-an-exploding-star-looks-like.html","title":{"rendered":"What an exploding star looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been able to witness the first moments of a supernova for the first time, thanks to the Kepler space telescope, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/this-is-what-an-exploding-star-looks-like-for-realsies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Professor Peter Garnavich of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana were looking for supernovae in the Kepler data.<\/p>\n<p>They analysed data over a three-year period, during which time Kepler captured images every 30 minutes &#8211; covering over 500 galaxies and 50 trillion stars.<\/p>\n<p>They found Kepler had captured two Type II supernovae in 2011, but only one resulted in a shock breakout.<\/p>\n<p>When a star\u2019s core collapses, this explosion only lasts about 20 minutes &#8211; so capturing the event is a rarity.<\/p>\n<p>The research is available in full <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1603.05657\" target=\"_blank\">on arXiv<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0animation of what the supernova of KSN 2011d, located 1.2 billion light years away, looked like is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kLlILnQjGfc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More science news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/158679-can-humans-hibernate.html\"><strong>Can humans hibernate?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/157639-blackest-material-in-the-world.html\"><strong>Blackest material in the world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/157627-new-quantum-computer-based-on-five-atoms.html\"><strong>New quantum computer based on five atoms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/157279-how-many-spoons-of-sugar-your-favourite-snacks-and-drinks-have-in-them.html\"><strong>How many spoons of sugar your favourite snacks and drinks have in them<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/157497-the-most-remote-galaxy-ever-seen-in-the-universe.html\"><strong>The most remote galaxy ever seen in the Universe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kepler telescope has watched two supernovae break out of the surface of stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":159418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,7259,36246,36248],"class_list":["post-159416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-kepler","tag-ksn-2011a","tag-ksn-2011d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159422,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159416\/revisions\/159422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}