This is an image of an amazing stellar dance, these two stars orbit each other in 2.5 hours and they are gradually moving inwards towards a collision. This type of collision betwixt Neutron stars is the cause of the most powerful explosions in the Universe, a gamma ray burst. A collision between two Red Dwarf … Read more
The asteroid that came so close to Earth recently is the closest a stellar body has come to the Earth in a very long time. It was 17,000 miles away from the Earth at the closest approach and this resulted in some small rocks entering the atmosphere and either exploding in the atmosphere or hitting … Read more
On the space.com website, there is an article about the Armageddon movie and the giant asteroid that was threatening the Earth. They calculated that the energy needed by a bomb to destroy the Asteroid would be 800 trillion terajoules — compared with the 418,000 terajoules produced by history’s most powerful blast, the Soviet Union’s test detonation … Read more