Thanks.

Fabulous.

so good.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second

sP

I wish Doc Edgerton had lived to see it.

http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/

You can see specific shapes in the clouds that retain their shape as the clouds appear to be expanding. I wouldn't expect that from a light echo.

Looking at the raw images, it doesn't look like the same features have moved outward, so it appears the morphing software did that to make a smooth video. Kinda misleading, though.

In light-years.

Thanks! Cool!

About 20,000 light years away. It's that the dust shell expansion is HUGE! (I wrote a paper on this back in 2006). The original outburst was estimated to be 600,000 times brighter than out Sun.

We still don't know for sure why V838 Mon had an outburst of this magnitude. But still pretty cool to see, no?