Debris from stellar explosion not slowed after 400 years
Friday, September 4, 2020 - 10:41
in Astronomy & Space
Material blasting away from the site of an exploded star has been recorded traveling at speeds faster than 20 million miles per hour — about 25,000 times faster than the speed of sound on Earth. A team of astronomers, including David Burrows at Penn State, describe the observation made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in […]