The Hubble Telescope has captured a stellar explosion in the R Aquarii system, 700 light-years from Earth, showing a powerful ejection of plasma.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a spectacular explosion in the binary star system R Aquarii, located 700 light-years from Earth.
In this system, two stars interact: an aging red giant, 400 times more massive than the Sun, and a white dwarf, a star in the final stages of its development.
The white dwarf gradually attracts hydrogen from its neighbor gravitationally, and when the accumulated amount reaches a critical limit, a nuclear explosion occurs. In this process, the plasma is ejected into space at a speed of more than 1.6 km/h, creating a spectacular phenomenon similar to a broken sprinkler. This clearly shows the redistribution of nuclear energy in the Universe.
“Swirling stellar streams make this region look like a broken lawn sprinkler. It clearly shows how the Universe redistributes the products of nuclear energy that form deep inside the stars and fly back into space, ” said NASA.
It was previously reported that ESA presented the first images from the Euclid space mission, which aims to create the largest 3D map of the Universe.
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