When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in January 2022, its effects were felt — and heard — thousands of kilometers away. A new study analyzes crowdsourced data (largely from Keep reading
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A Dandelion-Like Supernova Remnant
In 1181 CE, astronomers in China and Japan recorded a new, short-lived star in the constellation Cassiopeia. After burning for nearly six months, this historic supernova disappeared from the naked Keep reading
Gigapixel Supernova
Eleven thousand years ago, a star exploded in the constellation Vela, blowing off its outer layers in a spectacular shock wave that remains visible today. Today’s image is a piece Keep reading
Simeis 147
Sometimes known as the Spaghetti Nebula, Simeis 147 is the remnant of a supernova that occurred 40,000 years ago. The glowing filaments of this composite image show hydrogen and oxygen Keep reading
Lasers and Soap Films
Soap films are a great system for visualizing fluid flows. Researchers use them to look at flags, fish schooling and drafting, and even wind turbines. In this work, researchers explore Keep reading
Can Explosions Deflect Bullets?
In one of their most Mythbusters-like videos ever, the Slow Mo Guys ask: can an explosion deflect a bullet? To find out, they built out a system to trigger a Keep reading
Test Firing a Rocket Engine
Watching a rocket engine start up in slow motion is always fun. This Slow Mo Guys video shows a test fire of one of Firefly’s engines, which is capable of Keep reading
Withstanding Rocket Launches
It takes a lot of power to lift a giant rocket‘s payload all the way to orbit, and in the first moments of a rocket launch, all that energy is Keep reading
Star YY Hya
A team of professional and amateur astronomers discovered and then imaged this previously undiscovered galactic nebula. At the heart of the stellar remnant is a binary star pair. Shock waves Keep reading
Exploding a Bubble
In this high-speed video, artist Linden Gledhill ignites a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen contained within a soap bubble. As neat as the video is, I decided to take a Keep reading