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Phaeton (alternatively Phaethon / ˈ f eɪ. ə θ ən / or Phaëton / ˈ f eɪ. ə t ən /; from Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized: Phaéthōn, pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]) is a hypothetical planet hypothesized by the Titius–Bode law to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the destruction of which supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt (including the ...
The Space Variable Objects Monitor is a small X-ray telescope satellite for studying the explosions of massive stars by analysing the resulting gamma-ray bursts, developed by China National Space Administration (CNSA), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the French Space Agency , [45] launched on 22 June 2024 (07:00:00 UTC).
The X-ray flux corresponds to a total energy density of about 5 x 10 −4 eV/cm 3. [1] The ROSAT soft X-ray diffuse background (SXRB) image shows the general increase in intensity from the Galactic plane to the poles. At the lowest energies, 0.1 – 0.3 keV, nearly all of the observed soft X-ray background (SXRB) is thermal emission from ~10 6 ...
Multiple telescopes observed a rare cosmic explosion called a kilonova that created heavy elements in space, including some necessary for life. Explosion 1 million times brighter than the Milky ...
Now new research claims to have shown that the explosion is in fact a nearly perfect sphere, and is completely symmetrical. Scientists have pursued a number of possible explanations – such as ...
[3] Shock waves in stellar environments, such as shocks inside a core collapse supernova explosion often become radiation mediated shocks. Such shocks are formed by photons colliding with the electrons of the matter, and the downstream of these shocks is dominated by radiation energy density rather than thermal energy of matter.
An explosion in space so massive you'll be able to look up and see it in the night sky without a telescope could happen "any day now," a NASA expert said Wednesday.
The first candidate kilonova to be found was detected on June 3, 2013 as short gamma-ray burst GRB 130603B by instruments on board the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer and KONUS/WIND spacecraft, and then imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope 9 and 30 days later. [8] This artist's impression shows a kilonova produced by two colliding neutron stars.