Supernovae are beacons that allow us to measure the universe itself. Since they can be seen at vast distances, we can use them as milestone markers, determining their distance even when they lie billions of light years away. Type Ia supernovae explode with a pretty well-defined total energy, which means that each one has a predictable maximum brightness. In the case of astronomy, our past experience with exploding stars ( some very similar to 0519 indeed) helps us understand each new one we find, but it’s more than that. The white dwarf explodes, briefly lighting up the Universe, capable of outshining an entire galaxy for a few days.Ĭome to think of it, there’s another similarity between astronomers and medical examiners: Over time, we both build up a body of knowledge that helps us solve future cases. When enough of the material piles up, it undergoes catastrophic nuclear fusion, which can disrupt the structure of the entire star. If this bizarre dead star has a companion star, it can siphon off material and collect it on its surface. All that’s left is the naked, exposed core of the star, an über-dense object called a white dwarf. It’s past the red giant stage, having used up all the fuel in its core and blown off its outer layers. The key player is a star that is a bit more massive than the Sun, which is at the end of its already long life. A supernova from a young massive star emits X-rays differently than a supernova from an older star, and in the case of 0519, it’s clear it was the latter, what we call a Type Ia event. Astronomers do that to, but instead of sending X-rays through it, we look at the X-rays coming from it. When trying to figure out what happened to a body, an ME might X-ray it. It crushes any achievements of humanity into microscopic dust. That’s a speed dozens of times faster than the fastest speed ever achieved by a human-built space probe, and we’re talking about something like an octillion tons of matter blasting outward at that velocity. What you’re seeing is the debris from the event, already about 25 light years across, expanding at several thousand kilometers per second. Good for us it’s located over 160,000 light years away! It’s in another galaxy, in fact: the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf companion galaxy to the Milky Way. This supernova event was huge, releasing as much energy in a few days as the Sun will over its entire lifetime-in other words, it was many, many billions of times more luminous than the Sun. I say seemingly, because gentle it is not: It is the rapidly expanding remains of a star (SNR stands for Super nova Remnant) that exploded some 600 years ago.
Grombrindal has a number of traits and abilities which make him a unique Legendary Lord. Thus clad, he is a formidable force of the battlefield. Grombrindal has no less than four quest-chains, bestowing him with the Rune Helm of Zhufbar, the Armour of Glimril Scales, the Rune Cloak of Valaya, and the Rune Axe of Grimnir.
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Like all Legendary Lords, Grombrindal unlocks a series of unique quests as he levels up, each of which rewards him with his legendary wargear. Either way, he is a powerful living symbol of hope and pride for the Dwarfs and, in times of dire need, he may appear in the flesh to help the Dawi through their tribulations. Some say he is the living incarnation of Snorri Longbeard himself others that he was betrothed to the goddess Valaya, protector and bestower of magical resistance.
Grombrindal: The White DwarfGrombrindal, The White Dwarf himself, is a hero from the time of legends. Grombrindal is now available as a Legendary Lord in Total War: WARHAMMER, taking his place alongside Thorgrim and Ungrim as a leader of Dwarfen campaigns!
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