Science news articles about 'thermonuclear explosion'

... one star in a close binary system onto its companion, eventually triggering a runaway thermonuclear explosion. The nebula surrounding this nova is a planetary nebula, which must have formed during an ...

... shell of matter that has fallen onto the ingesting star becomes unstable, leading to a thermonuclear explosion which makes the system brighter. Nova Scorpii 2007a (or V1280 Scorpii), was discovered ...

... gas – can be as commonplace as in fluorescent light bulbs, or exotic in the extreme, as a thermonuclear explosion. The Earth's upper atmosphere is a plasma, as are lightning bolts and virtually all ...

A thermonuclear explosion on a dead star has created a space bubble shaped like a peanut.

... Milky Way. Astronomers think that SNR 0104 is the remains of a so-called Type Ia supernova caused by the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf. In this composite made of X-rays ...

... may be the remains of a white-dwarf star that disintegrated in a thermonuclear explosion, known as a Type Ia supernova, but it does not look like other likely Type Ia remnants found ...

... , has created the first full-star simulation of the hours preceding the largest thermonuclear explosions in the universe. In a paper to be published in the October issue of Astrophysical Journal, Ann ...

... matter – primarily hydrogen – falls onto a star and accumulates in a shell that can flare up as brief thermonuclear explosions. SN 2002bj is a "super" nova, generating about 1,000 times the energy of ...