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posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the recent-too dept.

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The eruption of neighboring superstar Eta Carinae over 170 years ago is fascinating researchers and setting records for the fastest jettisoned gas from a stellar outburst.

Approximately 170 years ago, a stellar eruption sped away from our massive (and incredibly unstable) neighboring superstar Eta Carinae. Now, a team from the University of Arizona in conjunction with NASA has determined this event holds the record for the fastest jettisoned gas ever measured from a star -- without the star self-destructing.

The energy from the blast would be equivalent to that of a traditional supernova explosion, events that often leave behind only the corpse of a star. However, this double star system stayed relatively intact.

For the last seven years, University of Arizona's Nathan Smith and the Space Telescope Science Institute's Armin Rest determined how powerful the blast was by looking at echoes of light surrounding Eta Carinae.

Source: https://interestingengineering.com/historys-fastest-jettisoned-gas-from-stellar-outburst-discovered-from-neighboring-superstar


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:18PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:18PM (#718935) Journal

    The universe is pretty cool

    For the very vast majority of it, you could safely say it's actually damned cold.

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