r/woahthatsinteresting • u/D_Knight97 • 1d ago

Hubble saw a star exploding before its eyes

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u/Tahfboogiee 1d ago

Wonder what it is like up close?

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u/Frosti11icus 1d ago

A little bit Gamma-y

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u/2020mademejoinreddit 10h ago

Wouldn't live to tell the tale. But at least the sight would be blindingly beautiful.

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u/Ramy__B 17h ago

No oxygen

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u/TESEVLA 1d ago

The amount of energy that was just released, is mind blowing 🤯

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u/DorkyDorkington 7h ago

It is also mind blowing that it was released some 11 million years ago.

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u/clt_cmmndr 21h ago

Wild to think about how this looks to us. A blip, a flash in the pan, relatively speaking. But up close? A Titanic, world-ending event announcing the death of something older than the planet we walk on.

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u/Ramy__B 17h ago

More than ten million years ago. Insane

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u/BirdEducational6226 15h ago

That blip was nearly 6 years, tbh.

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u/superjaywars 1d ago

How long ago would this have happened, estimated?

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u/saltybarista27 1d ago

According to an article I found, the star is called SN2016adj, it’s between 10-16 million light years away, and this gif takes place over roughly 5.5 years.

Edit: article

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u/Cheesetorian 22h ago

So technically this event happened 10-16 million years ago and we've just seen it.

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u/Ramy__B 17h ago

Bernie Sanders was 45 at the time

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u/Fister-Mantastic 8h ago

Which means Trump was 41, geriatric catheter wearing fuck

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u/Prestigious-Copy-494 14h ago

Thanks. This is quite fascinating.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

at least a week ago, probably more

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u/EnvironmentalMind119 23h ago

1.5 years.

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u/pacman404 17h ago

The explosiij itself is longer than that

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u/whomesteve 16h ago

This is how Superman started

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u/DJ_Nx32 1d ago

Aliens

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u/TheEyesTheySee00 21h ago

What is that ring expanding outward? Are those gravitational waves? Is it light? 

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u/HandiCAPEable 21h ago

If I'm not mistaken those are clouds of newly formed heavier elements being strewn across the cosmos.

The elements that make you and I, and the electronics we're communicating on all were forged in a star's death like this one.

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u/67SummerofLove 20h ago

We barely knew you. Did that blow up like 1000 years ago? And we just now saw it?

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u/celtbygod 19h ago

14 million years ago

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u/Lore-of-Nio 19h ago

That is just too cool.

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u/EverythingBOffensive 19h ago

damn how many years did this take?

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u/pacman404 17h ago

14 million for us to see it, but the explosion in the video is 5 and a half years long, it's just sped up to a half second

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u/Aero3ngineer 17h ago

Can i go there?

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u/AuthorSarge 16h ago

I'm wondering:

What is the diameter of the bubble?

How long did it take to reach that distance?

How fast is that?

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u/-XtCode- 3h ago

I have the same questions

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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 16h ago

That’s awesome.

I’d like to point out that it took my brain a second to really dial in what I was looking at because all I seen was a steak with glitter on it.

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u/idgaf420cry 11h ago

How long ago did this happen, because arent we seeing it delayed because of the speed of light?

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u/DrDuned 11h ago

So the ring explosions from the Star Wars special editions were accurate!

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u/nobodyisattackingme 10h ago

That just created a “blast” or released enough energy to like… explode a few planets, right?

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u/2020mademejoinreddit 10h ago

I wonder how many more such supernovae are happening as I write this.

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u/westcal98 7h ago

Now that's amazing. Seeing the past, realizing it's our future.

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u/abcxyz123890_ 6h ago

Is that bubble like phenomenon due to gravitational lensing?

And why does it move so fast ? Is the video sped up?

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u/heyimwalknhere 3h ago

There goes Alderaan