... Shop . Home . / . Magazine . / . Cosmic explosions: A new unifying theory . FROM THE January 2004 ISSUE . ... FROM THE January 2004 ISSUE . Scientist opposes prevailing theory about powerful cosmic explosions at Santa Fe meeting. ...
... Magazine . / . Ask Astro . / . How would a supernova explosion near our solar system affect Earth? . FROM THE January 2008 ISSUE . ... Published: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 . A supernova explosion might affect Earth in several ways. ...
... A stronomers clocked a blast wave from a nuclear explosion on the surface of a white-dwarf star racing through space at nearly 4 million mph (6 million kilometers per hour). ...
... explosion occurred near the center of the X-ray emission, then the neutron star must have received a powerful kick in the ... explosion is correct, this means that the neutron star has been moving at a speed of at least 3 million mph (4.8 million km/h ...
... The supernova was the explosion of a massive star that had lost its outer atmosphere, probably in a serious of minor explosions like the one Koichi found in 2004. ...
... Shop . Home . / . News . / . X-ray view of a thousand-year-old cosmic explosion . ... is especially important because astronomers use observations of these explosions in distant galaxies as mileposts to mark the ...
... The explosion was surprising because it was far too faint for a supernova, in which a star literally explodes, but clearly too bright for a nova or a thermonuclear explosion from the surface of a white dwarf star. ...
... Bomb sags form in volcanic explosions on Earth when rocks ejected skyward by the explosion fall into soft deposits, deforming them as they land. ...