Okay okay, you got me. It's actually the real life death of a star. Just curious, how many Star Wars fans did I fool? None? Oh. Okay, moving on.....
"We believe that this light, emanating from deep within the star, was generated after its core collapsed and compressed the gas
surrounding it to around one million degrees Kelvin.’ Around four hours after this light was observed a shockwave from the collapsed core, travelling at 50 million kilometres an hour, would have hit the surface of the star and blown it apart."
This is absolutely amazing! This has never been seen before, so it is VERY exciting. And one million degrees Kelvin is a little toasty. And by "toasty" I mean a burning, searing hot 1799540.33 degree Fahrenheit.
Full Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613134315.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment