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For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a star’s explosion at its earliest stage.

The feat was achieved by ESO's Very Large Telescope just a day after the detection of this supernova, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.

This brief initial phase wouldn’t have been observable a day later. This will help shed light on how massive stars go supernova.

eso.org/public/news/eso2520/

Illustration: ESO/L. Calçada

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A digital illustration of a star going supernova, surrounded by a gaseous disc in orange and red tones. The star is seen exploding in an olive shape, directed above and below the star.

Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
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They added that wave thing to Star Wars decades later because they were jealous of how it looked in Star Trek 6 😆

(This isn't a joke, the original Star Wars explosion was just a normal explosion without the wave thing. They only added the wave 20 years later with lots of other CGI crap.)

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The weirdest part is the Star Trek one had a specific plot reason for having a wave and it plays a major role in the following scene, but the Star Wars one didn't. It's like Lucas just copy-pasted effects from other films that had come out in the 90s and wasn't really thinking if they fitted well.
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