October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
... temperature with air and the lower limit of its explosive concentration are higher than that of hydrogen and kerosene vapor... additional safety measures, with regards to fires and explosions, besides those that have already been established. Finally...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... out into space at the speed of light. This ‘radiation explosion’ is different from a CME (which involves a release of ... into Earth. This event, which was the equivalent to the explosion of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs and blocked out the Sun...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... what cannot be denied is that debris-creating events are happening in GEO, through incidents like collisions and explosions, in addition to the loss of control of satellites at the end of their operational lives. What is also undeniable is that the...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... of an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere above the Earth, to improve military communications. The enormous Starfish Prime nuclear explosion over Hawaii (July 1962), so bright that people could read the newspaper outside at night by its light...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... type of supernova that ended its life in a huge cosmic explosion when the Universe was only a quarter of its current age....the nature of SLSN.” Clues as to the temperature of the explosion and the amount of metal produced when the star exploded – two...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
... of radioactive nickel that was created in the explosion. Considering the unusually rich abundance of this isotope... white dwarf with either a neutron star or a black hole. “The explosion is likely to be the result of a merger between a white dwarf (...
