NASA recently detected a massive thermonuclear explosion coming from outer space.
The culprit seems to be a distant pulsar, the space agency reports, which is the stellar remains of a star that blew up in a supernova but was too small to form a black hole. NASA spotted the burst because it sent out an intense beam of x-rays that got picked up by the agency’s orbital observatory NICER.
All in all, it serves as a potent reminder: space is an extremely dangerous, extremely metal place.
Comments are closed.