Today’s wallpaper shows an artist’s depiction of what the early stages of a Type Ia supernova might look like. The image of the “exploding” star shows at its edges the asymmetrical shape of the resultant blast cloud. Using data gathered while making spectro-polarimetry observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the McDonald Observatory’s Otto Struve Telescope, … Continue reading Wallpaper Wednesday
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