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  2. Supernovae in fiction - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] George O. Smith's 1958 novel Fire in the Heavens revisits the theme of anticipating the end of the world as a result of an impending solar explosion, [2] [12] and in Larry Niven's 1971 short story "Inconstant Moon", the sudden brightening of the Moon in the night sky leads the characters to conclude that the Sun has already exploded and ...

  3. Supernova - Wikipedia

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    In the case of a massive star's sudden implosion, the core of a massive star will undergo sudden collapse once it is unable to produce sufficient energy from fusion to counteract the star's own gravity, which must happen once the star begins fusing iron, but may happen during an earlier stage of metal fusion.

  4. List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    2: Space Shuttle and other solid-fuel vehicles: Bruce Halker and Roy Westerfield lost their lives in the PEPCON disaster, an explosion of a factory that produced ammonium perchlorate for solid-fuel rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle and other launchers. 27 July 1989: Kennedy Space Center, US 1 Space Shuttle

  5. Cosmic explosion will be visible to the naked eye in once-in ...

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    Astronomers predict that the nova explosion could happen anytime between now and September. The last time this particular star system erupted was in 1946, Schaefer said, and another eruption will ...

  6. Destroyed in Seconds - Wikipedia

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    Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.

  7. Impact (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Impact is a 2009 Canadian action disaster miniseries directed by Mike Rohl, written by Michael Vickerman and distributed by Tandem Communications, starring David James Elliott, Natasha Henstridge, Benjamin Sadler, Steven Culp, James Cromwell and Florentine Lahme as the story shows about a meteor shower which eventually sends the Moon on a collision course with Earth.

  8. A once-in-a-lifetime star explosion to happen over SC skies ...

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    The next explosion is expected to occur from now through September. “The star system, normally magnitude +10, which is far too dim to see with the unaided eye, will jump to magnitude +2 during ...

  9. What happens if an astronaut floats off into space? - AOL

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    If that fails, saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together, a SAFER, and, to be honest, a lot of luck. RELATED: Here's whats happening in space this year: