Researchers Build “Supernova in a Box” to Study the Physics of Stellar Blasts #SpaceSaturday
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a way to model at small scales the exploding stars that can lead to nebulae. Here’s more from Astronomy Now:
The device is about the size and thickness of a door but shaped like a slice of pizza, about four feet wide at the top and standing on its tip. When a small explosion is triggered in the tip, the blast wave moves toward the top through two layers of gas that are illuminated by laser beams.
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“We suddenly go from a perfectly still chamber to a little supernova,” said principal investigator Devesh Ranjan, a professor in Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. “There was a lot of engineering done to contain the blast and at the same time make it realistic where it hits the gas interface in the visualisation window.”
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