The investigative minds at How to Survive examine nuclear detonation effects, shockwaves, and survival strategies.

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in interstellar space.

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

"The surprise that a supposedly quiet, discless system could drive such a spectacular nebula was one of those rare 'wow' moments." ...

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In this case, RXJ0528+2838 is orbited by a still-living star similar in size to our sun. In such cases, material from the active star is usually siphoned to the white dwarf to form a disk of debris ...

The shape and size suggest the outflow has been ongoing for at least 1,000 years.

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The never-before-seen phenomenon has been discovered around a white dwarf, named ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research ...