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Micronova
Artwork depicting a so-called micronova. This is an entirely new phenomenon in astrophysics, reported by astronomers at the University of Durham in the UK. They are highly explosive events that occur in a subsclass of cataclysmic binaries called inte...
Keywords: accretion, accretion column, Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, binary, cataclysmic ...

Surface Mass Ejection
A surface mass ejection (SME), depicted in this illustration, is a relatively recently discovered phenomenon in stellar astrophysics. They are similar to coronal mass ejections but on a far larger scale. During an SME, a star can release hundreds of ...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, destruction, engulfed, gas giant, red giant, SME,...

PNe - V5
Artwork of an imaginary planetary nebula. This is a glowing shell of gas cast off by a star near the end of its life. The star can be seen at the centre of the nebula. The Sun will one day form a planetary nebula, once its internal stock of hydrogen ...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, death, exoplanet, extrasolar planet, planetary ne...

Synestia
Artwork of a synestia. This is a hypothetical torus of molten rock that is believed to form when two similarly sized rocky bodies collide - one may have arisen when the Earth was struck by a Mars-sized world called Theia, inside of which the Moon was...
Keywords: accretion, Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, birth, Blender 3D, collison, Earth, fo...

WD1054-226
The white dwarf WD1054-226 exhibits a constant stream of transits by debris and or dust in orbit about it, with an underlying period of 25.02 hours. Astronomers believe that the material orbits within the star's habitable zone, where the temperature ...
Keywords: accretion, Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, debris, dust, exoplanet, h...

Ice Planet - V1
Astronomers from Oxford University in the UK have observed this rocky exoplanet covered in an ocean od water with substantial prozen deposits of carbon dioxide. The planet orbits a cool red dwarf....
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, Earth-like, exoplanet, ice planet, oc...

Ice Planet - V2
Astronomers from Oxford University in the UK have observed this rocky exoplanet covered in an ocean od water with substantial prozen deposits of carbon dioxide. The planet orbits a cool red dwarf....
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, Earth-like, exoplanet, ice planet, oc...

Planet Collision
Astronomers from the University of Warwick and Leiden Observatory have observed an even which they believe is the first of its kind detected - the aftermath of a collision between two planets. The collision caused the two bodies to merge into a giant...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, collision, debris, impact, Leiden Obs...

Stolen Exoplanet
Scientists at Sheffield University, UK, used computational N-body simulations of star-forming regions to show that the 'BEAST' planetary systems - planets orbiting massive stars - can form from the capture of a free-floating planet, or the direct the...
Keywords: astrophysics, BEAST, Blender 3D, exoplanet, orbit, press release, Sheffield Univ...

PSR 1257+12 - V1b
Animation of the millisecond pulsar known as PSR 1257+12, located 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The star, with spins once every 0.006219 seconds, is also known as Lich. Surprisingly, this pulsar - a neutron star emitting beams ...
Keywords: Adobe After Effects, animation, astrophysics, Blender 3D, exoplanet, planetary s...

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