May 29, 2011
This video is a musical record of over three years worth of Type Ia supernova bursts, which are caused when white dwarf stars explode. University of Victoria astronomer Alex Parker and UC Santa Barbara’s Melissa Graham assigned each blast an instrument and musical note depending on its properties. The result is the “Supernova Sonata.”
The researchers made use of data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, which detected 241 Type Ia supernovas between April 2003 and August 2006. The video shows each blast in chronological order, with each second of video corresponding to roughly two weeks of real time.
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