New High-Intensity Cosmic Explosion

The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope picked up a whole new type of cosmic explosion: a ultra high-intensity explosion coming from the surface of a white dwarf star. The finding stunned observers and theorists alike because it overturns a long-standing notion that such novae explosions lack the power for such high-energy emissions.

In March, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected gamma rays -- the most energetic form of light -- from the nova for 15 days. Scientists believe that the emission arose as a million-mile-per-hour shock wave raced from the site of the explosion. A nova is a sudden, short-lived brightening of an otherwise inconspicuous star. The outburst occurs when a white dwarf in a binary system erupts in an enormous thermonuclear explosion.

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[SpaceRip]

@Sardanapalus96 Using energy generated or used over time as the focus, our research tells us that hypernovae/GRBs are about third in line... behind the gravity waves emitted by colliding black holes, and the turbulent inner horizon of a black hole.

[TheyCallMeBOX]

In heaven I want to become superman and explore the universe

[clairebehun]

some really good stuff here

[smuggecko]

love the video man

[Andragorans]

@puncheex i said in the future -_- advanced technology and no polution.

[puncheex]

@Andragorans: Sure, except that you have people complaining about the warming of their ears from using a cell phone. Think of what happens when you drive real power through the air. And the fact that you have to wait a couple million years for it to arrive.

[Andragorans]

@puncheex Think in the future - wireless technology ;)

[puncheex]

@scarycatsscaringcats: It's an "artist's rendition". It happened in another galaxy, far far away.

[puncheex]

@Andragorans: Yeah, that and a long extension cord.

[MrPrep4Life]

Very cool stuff spacerip!

[wizardmori]

The oneself stands at the top of the top and go through to the point more. Self reaches the peak of the pleasure by the great explosion in the most innermost. There is the history in self, the world is in oneself, infinite self waves and is energetic, space universe cosmos erupts and is exploding.

頂点の頂点に立ち更に其の先に突き抜ける。最内奥での大爆発によ­り快楽の絶頂に達する。自分の中に世界が在る歴史が有る、無限が­波打ち躍動している、宇宙が爆発している。

[garrettdw2]

@89990000 This was a year ago, lol...