| ▲ | A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions(phys.org) | |
| 51 points by wglb 21 hours ago | 3 comments | ||
| ▲ | chasil an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
There is a wiki on pair-instability supernovas. Antimatter (in the form of positrons) is a key factor. | ||
| ▲ | wglb 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Arxiv reprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16487 | ||
| ▲ | ck2 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I just want to live long enough for space telescopes to evolve exponentially to observe kilonovas in the visual spectrum I mean laser interferometers are an amazing advancement but just imagine seeing an earth-sized chunk of gold pop out of a kilonova (probably not my lifetime but eventually a human will see it happen) Thank goodness this administration did not frack with Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, I thought the name alone would make them cancel it or rename it after him, wait maybe I shouldn't even mention that idea... * https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc... | ||