Dave
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Dave
@Davedibble1980
Manchester Utd fan, dad of 3, husband to 1, joiner by trade
Warrington, England Katılım Nisan 2024
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We just saw the exact moment a star exploded for the first time ever.
Astronomers have achieved a rare feat: imaging the exact moment a massive star detonated—and the explosion was anything but spherical.
SN 2024ggi, a supernova located 22 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 3621, was detected a mere 26 hours after ignition. This extraordinarily early discovery allowed researchers to train the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile on the event while it was still in its infancy.
Using the technique of spectropolarimetry—which analyzes the polarization of light to reveal geometric structure—the team uncovered a surprising truth: the expanding shockwave was distinctly aspherical, elongated into an “olive” or prolate shape along one primary axis.
This asymmetry means the catastrophic rebound following the star’s core collapse did not propagate uniformly in all directions, directly contradicting the long-standing assumption that the deepest layers of a core-collapse supernova explode spherically.
The progenitor was a red supergiant 12–15 times more massive than the Sun that had exhausted its nuclear fuel, triggering gravitational collapse of its iron core. In most supernovae, the initial shape of this breakout is quickly obscured as the blast wave slams into the star’s outer envelope. Here, however, astronomers captured polarized light signatures of the still-unobscured ejecta, freezing the explosion’s geometry in time.
The discovery carries far-reaching consequences. It strongly suggests that asymmetry is common, if not universal, in the earliest phases of massive-star deaths. Current theoretical models, which often assume spherical symmetry at the core, will need significant revision. Moreover, these distorted explosions could help explain observed peculiarities in supernova remnants, the production of gamma-ray bursts, and the kicking of neutron stars and black holes to high speeds at birth.
By catching a star in the act of dying asymmetrically, SN 2024ggi has given us a vivid glimpse into the violent, chaotic physics that govern the final heartbeat of the universe’s most massive stars.
[🎞️ Artist’s animation of a supernova explosion]
[Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection. ESO, 2025]
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@RickyDoggin You gotta be bat shit crazy to stick your face next to that dogs face.
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@HermanaSleven @Tgarratt10 Shut up motherfucker.. neymer is miles ahed of that fat shit Rooney
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Neymar and it’s not that close if we’re being honest. And I love Rooney.
george@StokeyyG2
Let’s settle this. Neymar or Wayne Rooney?
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@Tgarratt10 What hahahahhahahahahha jus fuck right of you stupid cunt
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@its_The_Dr Were they ever able to find the astronauts bodies?? I can’t remember. 😢
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@quiggers22 @poetscorneruk Yeah there best player by a fucking mile
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@poetscorneruk To be fair Ireland were brilliant at that world cup after he fucked off
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@poetscorneruk Mick would’ve KO’d him if he’d carried on
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@PaisleySteelman It’s means your a woke prick who loves women getting raped by Muslims
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When the Irish dwarf Stephen Laxley Lennon hates what Motherwell FC are doing within the local community. We know we are doing the right thing 😎👍
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra
Motherwell football club becomes the latest to suffer the islamic wailing. It's all by design.
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Would much rather these kinds of people in my clubs stadium, than racist, bigoted and ignorant fuds like Tommy Robinson.
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra
Motherwell football club becomes the latest to suffer the islamic wailing. It's all by design.
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@Davedibble1980 I'm sorry to hear that.
I hope you find comfort somewhere soon 🙏🏼✨
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Another great result for the anti vaxers!
Morons
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 PICTURED: Students at the University of Kent queue for meningitis antibiotics
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