Explosions

Two neutron stars begin to merge in this artist’s concept, blasting jets of high-speed particles. Collision events like this one create short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: Sonoma State Univ./A. Simonnet; NASADiscovered inadvertently, GRBs have become key to understanding cosmic events, from black hole formation to the universe’s structure, through their immense power and the study of their afterglows.The most powerful events in the known universe – gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy…

Early in the new Australian film Christmess – a bittersweet drama about an alcoholic actor trying to turn his life around – one character asks a question familiar to many cinephiles: what’s the best Christmas movie? The protagonist, Steve Le Marquand’s Chris, delivers an answer familiar to anyone who has been on the internet in the past two decades: Die Hard, the damn fine, explosive Bruce Willis classic that has been igniting debate about what exactly constitutes a Christmas movie since yuletides of yore.If Christmess –…

SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday's test flight.The rocketship reached space following liftoff from South Texas before communication suddenly was lost. SpaceX officials said it appears the ship's self-destruct system blew it up over the Gulf of Mexico. Minutes earlier, the separated booster had exploded over the gulf. By then, though, its job was done. Saturday's demo lasted eight or so minutes, about twice as long as the…

Space is a place of astronomical violence and volatility, so it’s fitting that the latest puzzle that has stumped the stargazing science world has been dubbed the Tasmanian Devil, a likeminded erratic ball of pent-up energy in marsupial form.Astronomers have been left shaking their heads at the strikingly unusual behavior of the Tasmanian Devil, or AT2022tsd, a luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) located around a billion light-years from Earth. It not only defied the usual ‘live fast die young’ nature of LFBOTs…

The coast guard is investigating whether the blaze started in one of the electric vehicles onboard. The coast guard is investigating whether the blaze started in one of the electric vehicles onboard. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner…

The first proper interview I ever conducted was with the late John Wells. The satirist was in the West End performing his Denis Thatcher routine in the smash hit Anyone for Denis? But the subject of our conversation was not the husband of the then prime minister, nothing to do with the UK, nor in fact anything from the 20th century at all. Instead we discussed the events of 1778 and how watchmaker, arms dealer and spy Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais had come to write The Marriage of Figaro.It was a sequel to his…

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced that the world's fastest hypersonic wind tunnel is up and running, a detonation-driven shock tunnel that'll allow aerodynamic testing for aircraft, spacecraft and missiles at air speeds up to Mach 30. The idea of a wind tunnel is simple enough: if you want to know how a shape will perform at a given air speed, you build the shape, then hold it still in a test chamber and observe as air is blown past it at the desired speed. If all you're testing is a car, you can get…

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When stars like our Sun die, they tend to go out with a whimper and not a bang – unless they happen to be part of a binary (two) star system that could give rise to a supernova explosion.Now, for the first time, astronomers have spotted the radio signature of just such an event in a galaxy more than 400 million light-years away. The finding, published today in Nature, holds tantalizing clues as to what the companion star must have been like.An explosive star deathAs stars up to eight times heavier than our Sun start to…

U.S. regulators are demanding the recall, in what could be one of the largest safety actions on record. U.S. regulators are demanding the recall, in what could be one of the largest safety actions on record. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are…