Type ia supernova — Free Astrophysics Illustration

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Type ia supernova

A compact, fairly symmetric Type Ia supernova depicted as a nearly spherical thermonuclear stellar explosion with an intensely bright white to white-yellow central flash or white-hot core. Surrounding it is a clean, highly luminous expanding shell of glowing ejecta, roughly circular overall, with layered, slightly jagged shells transitioning from pale blue or blue-white in the inner regions to yellow, orange, and pale red toward the outer edges. The outer boundary is ragged but still round, with clumpy arcs, wispy filaments, fine speckled ejecta, and short starburst-like radiating spikes extending outward in all directions. The overall appearance is crisp, high-energy, and much more regular, uniform, and minimally filamentary than a core-collapse supernova. Flat vector clipart style with crisp edges, minimal shading, and a bright blue-white to yellow-orange palette.

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