07 November 2016
Solid oxygen to blame for SpaceX explosion
... before in the history of rocketry." In describing the “toughest puzzle we’ve ever had to solve” Musk said that the explosion was caused by supercooled liquid oxygen becoming so cold that it turned into a solid - a process that is not supposed...
15 April 2020
Scientists discover most brightest and energetic supernova yet
..., is lead author of the study. He explains: "We can measure supernovae using two scales—the total energy of the explosion, and the amount of that energy that is emitted as observable light, or radiation. "In a typical supernova, the radiation is less...
14 November 2016
Mysterious Quark Nova lights up an exploding star for a second time
... known to exist – a neutron star. So how does this tie in with a Quark-Nova? A quark-nova is a hypothetical violent explosion resulting from the conversion of a neutron star core to quark matter through a process known as quark deconfinement. When...
02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... flight ended 10 days before the Challenger disaster in 1986, issued a statement in which he said that the Falcon 9 explosion "reminds us all that space flight is an inherently risky business. As we continue to push the frontiers of space, there will...
12 September 2018
Birth of new star from a supernova seen for first time
...Purdue University and lead author of a paper recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "We know that supernova explosions produce these types of rapidly rotating neutron stars, but we never saw direct evidence of it at this unique time...
11 January 2019
Birth of a black hole possibly captured for first time
... to the usual two weeks associated with standard stellar explosions. Although most of a supernova’s energy is blown ...it’s definitely something unprecedented in the world of explosive transient astronomical events,” says Raffaella Margutti of ...
