Showing posts with label Cassiopeia A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cassiopeia A. Show all posts

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Exploding Star Depicted in Renderings


Have you ever seen a star explode before? Most likely, not. But this is the next best thing. In this series of renderings, you can actually see how a star turns nova or supernova. This star is, or was, Cassiopeia A and it has taken 325 years to explode. See, it's not that different from how planets are depicted to explode in movies.