Supernovae explosions (VIDEO)

Trinity College Dublin

Caption

Each star is a SN exploding with the size indicating how bright it appears and the colour indicating the colour of the supernova, they go from blue (hotter) to yellow (cooler) as they grow older and cool.

Credit

Mickael Rigault.

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