Explosion

Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)The Hubble Space Telescope captured this spectacular image of a stellar explosion throwing out sheets of debris in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy on July 7, 2003. Since its 1990 launch, Hubble has changed our fundamental…

While it has been a favorite disaster movie theme, nuking an incoming asteroid in the real world has been touted as a very bad idea.While a nuclear bomb could possibly obliterate a smaller asteroid, nuking a larger asteroid would only break it into pieces. Those pieces would still threaten our planet, and perhaps even makes things worse by producing multiple impacts across the planet. But is using nuclear weapons on an incoming asteroid really a bad idea? If the right technique is used, a nuclear blast could possibly be…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) again made a big discovery courtesy Astrosat space telescope by capturing a massive gamma-ray explosion. These gamma-ray bursts are considered as being the most powerful explosions known in the universe. Astrosat space telescope is India's first multi-wavelength space telescope. The burst that was captured is the telescope's 600th detection of such a massive GRB explosion. Experts believe that gaining further knowledge of the phenomenon can provide more understanding of…

SpaceX's uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have been lost minutes after lifting off on Saturday in a second test after its first attempt to reach space ended in an explosion.The two-stage rocketship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company's Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas, soaring roughly 90 kilometres above ground on a planned 90-minute flight into space.But the rocket's Super Heavy first-stage booster, though it appeared to achieve a…

Four Niagara-area border crossings closed after vehicle exploded Border crossings between Canada and the United States have been shut down following a vehicle explosion at the Niagara Falls Rainbow Bridge.  Ron Rienas, General Manager of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, told ABC News that, out of an abundance of caution, all four border crossings in the Niagara area have been closed as authorities investigate the scene.  In a statement issued on X, formerly Twitter, the…

November 22, 20233 min readScientists still can’t explain what is causing unusually bright explosions in space—but a surprising observation might offer cluesBy Nature magazine & Jonathan O'CallaghanAn artist’s impression of an LFBOT explosion. An explosion in space nicknamed the Tasmanian devil has confused astronomers by flashing at peak brightness more than a dozen times, months after the initial event. The observation, while posing new questions, could help to narrow down what might cause such explosions, which are…

A truly strange and rare kind of cosmic kaboom just got a lot more peculiar.An explosion some billion light-years away observed in 2022 known as the Tasmanian Devil (AT2022tsd) has been caught repeatedly flaring with the strength of 100 billion Suns – the same power as the initial explosion – for months following the initial flash.The explosion belongs to a rare category known as luminous fast blue optical transients, or LFBOTs, of which only a handful have been discovered. And the repeat behavior of the Tasmanian Devil…

Updated Nov. 18, 2023 1:46 pm ETSpaceX’s second test flight of its massive Starship rocket ended early Saturday when the uncrewed vehicle’s spacecraft blew up, though the launch made it farther than the company’s previous attempt.SpaceX said it lost contact with the Starship spacecraft about 15 minutes after launching from the company’s spaceport east of Brownsville, Texas, around 8 a.m. ET. A self-destruct mechanism appeared to trigger after contact was lost, exploding the craft, according to a SpaceX…

SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket and spacecraft launched for the second time early Saturday morning, making it through lift-off and a planned separation of the uncrewed ship and rocket booster before both ended up exploding.The massive Starship rocket launched around 5:03 a.m. Pacific from SpaceX’s launch facility near Boca Chica, Texas. On a livestream of the launch, SpaceX employees tempered viewers’ expectations, warning that the company didn’t expect to recover any hardware for future re-flight from either rocket…

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket just took off shortly after 8AM ET from the company’s Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas. A few minutes after the launch and a planned “hot stage” separation, the Super Heavy booster exploded instead of continuing its planned descent and water landing, but Starship itself continued into space. Minutes later, the SpaceX team said it had not received any signal from the booster and that they may have lost the ship. That far into its flight, the craft was likely no longer in range…