Stars explode like fireworks

The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published a picture of an explosion in the universe that has the same color and shape as a brilliant firework display.

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Brilliant fireworks display in the universe

GK Persei was born from the explosion of a white dwarf . In this explosion, white dwarfs were not completely destroyed, so GK Persei was not a supernova.

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The explosion in the universe resembles a colorful firework display.(Photo: NASA)

According to NASA, it exploded in 1901 . Once one of the brightest stars in a few days, it then faded quickly. In 2000, NASA scientists studied GK Persei with the help of the Chandra X-ray space observation device.

One of the results they obtained was a large sphere around the dwarf exploded, shaped like a beautiful firework display . Blue is the X-ray from Chandra, yellow is the optical data from the Hubble telescope, the data from the observatory measures pink radio interference.

" Over the years, when Chandra data expanded, GK Persei's fragments spread at a rate of more than 1 million km / h," said NASA's RT. They hope this discovery could help better understand a star's explosion in the universe.