{"id":14222,"date":"2015-05-10T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14222"},"modified":"2015-05-09T19:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T02:31:32","slug":"watching-this-simulated-star-die-is-mesmerizingand-good-science-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/watching-this-simulated-star-die-is-mesmerizingand-good-science-too","title":{"rendered":"Watching This Simulated Star Die Is Mesmerizing\u2026and Good Science Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 SingularityHub<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oxGajNoPz8c\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Traditionally, we\u2019ve done science by observing nature in person or setting up experiments in the lab. Now, a relatively new scientific technique is proving a powerful tool\u2014simulating nature on supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">A few years ago, Caltech astrophysicists released a supercomputer simulation of a supergiant star\u2019s core collapsing just prior to going supernova. Apart from a stunning visual, simulations like this hinted that Type II supernova explosions were asymmetrical\u2014a guess just recently backed by empirical observation.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/05\/09\/watching-this-simulated-star-die-is-mesmerizingand-good-science-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 SingularityHub Traditionally, we\u2019ve done science by observing nature in person or setting up experiments in the lab. Now, a relatively new scientific technique is proving a powerful tool\u2014simulating nature on supercomputers. A few years ago, Caltech astrophysicists released a supercomputer simulation of a supergiant star\u2019s core collapsing just prior to going [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}