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Label
Stellar Swirls
Artist
Ezra Brooker
Description
Turbulent eddies, or swirls, in a box of white dwarf star plasma that is partially "burning" via carbon fusion. This research is part of an effort in understanding the explosion mechanism of Type Ia supernovae, the cataclysmic deaths of white dwarf star corpses.
Type
Simulation
Artist Affiliation
Graduate Student
Department
Scientific Computing
Area of Research
Type Ia Supernovae Explosions (Astrophysics)
Date
2020
IIIF Manifest
https://fsudrs.github.io/artinSTEM/img/derivatives/iiif/obj01/manifest.json