{"id":139343,"date":"2022-05-14T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/hubble-captures-beautiful-aftermath-of-supernova-explosion"},"modified":"2022-05-14T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:03:05","slug":"hubble-captures-beautiful-aftermath-of-supernova-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/hubble-captures-beautiful-aftermath-of-supernova-explosion","title":{"rendered":"Hubble captures beautiful aftermath of supernova explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-captures-beautiful-aftermath-of-supernova-explosion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supernovas might spell the end for the star they happen to, but they aren\u2019t only destructive phenomena. When a star approaches the end of its life and runs out of fuel, it explodes in an enormous outpouring of energy, leaving behind a small, dense core that becomes a black hole or a neutron star. This explosion, though destructive on an epic scale, can also leave behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/space\/hubble-supernova-remnant\/\">beautiful remnant<\/a> created by the explosion\u2019s shock wave.<\/p>\n<p>A image recently released by the Hubble Space Telescope team shows one such supernova remnant, called DEM L249. Captured by Hubble\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument and located in the constellation of Mensa, this delicate structure is formed from dust and gas ejected outward from the star\u2019s location by the force of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis object \u2014 known as DEM L249 \u2014 is thought to have been created by a Type 1a supernova during the death throes of a white dwarf,\u201d the Hubble scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/esahubble.org\/images\/potw2219a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">write<\/a>. \u201cWhile white dwarfs are usually stable, they can slowly accrue matter if they are part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/space\/nova-explosion-magic-telescopes\/\">binary star system<\/a>. This accretion of matter continues until the white dwarf reaches a critical mass and undergoes a catastrophic supernova explosion, ejecting a vast amount of material into space in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supernovas might spell the end for the star they happen to, but they aren\u2019t only destructive phenomena. When a star approaches the end of its life and runs out of fuel, it explodes in an enormous outpouring of energy, leaving behind a small, dense core that becomes a black hole or a neutron star. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}