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One relative said everyone was traumatised by the news of the deadly explosion.

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This moment revealed the shape of the explosion during its earliest stage, a phase so brief that it would have disappeared from view within a day.

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Fire officials said crews responded at 3:44 p.m. to an explosion in the 4200 block of Sierra Vista Drive.

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It's followed immediately by the rattle of anti-aircraft fire, the distant thud of explosions, then finally the ominous klaxon call of ambulance and fire sirens.

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The surrogate was trained using high-resolution supernova simulations and learned to predict how gas spreads during the 100,000 years following a supernova explosion without requiring additional resources from the main simulation.

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