About the CCA Home Image

The image is based on a visualization courtesy of Joseph A. Insley of Argonne National Laboratory for “Luminous Blue Variable Outbursts from the Variations of Helium Opacity,” by Yan-Fei Jiang, Matteo Cantiello, Lars Bildsten, Eliot Quataert, Omer Blaes and James Stone. Nature, September 27, 2018. For a narrated video of the visualization, see “Simulations of Stellar Geysers from Luminous Blue Variable Stars.”