Double-Detonation Supernova (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Double-Detonation Supernova

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"Outflows" (red), regions where plumes of hot gas escape the intense nuclear burning at a star's surface, form at the onset of convection in the helium shell of some white dwarf stars. This visualization depicts early convection on the surface of white dwarf stars of different masses.

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Adam Jacobs, Stony Brook University

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