NASA spots an 'impossible' jet stream that appears to be moving faster than the speed of light
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a jet stream that appeared to be traveling at a speed greater than 99.7% of the speed of light, but due to an illusion, it seemed to go seven times faster
The event was seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (
Image: NASA Hubble site)
An explosion in space was captured by a NASA telescope that appeared to show a jet stream traveling at a speed greater than 99.97% of the speed of light.
But it seemed to only go at seven times the speed of light due to the illusion of "superliminal" movement.
Two neutron stars collided causing an explosion with a release of energy comparable to a supernova explosion.
The event named GW170817 was observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in August 2017, but it has taken astronomers so far to fully understand what happened with their findings published in the journal Nature .
Neutron stars are the surviving cores of massive stars that have exploded, and although they weigh more than the Sun, they could fit inside New York City due to their incredible density.
In other words, a teaspoon of surface material from a neutron star would weigh at least four billion tons on Earth.
Picture:
AFP via Getty Images)So when two neutron stars were seen colliding, it led to a massive and understandable explosion, with NASA stating that they "ripple the very fabric of time and space in a phenomenon called gravitational waves ".
And event GW170817 was the first combined detection of gravitational waves and gamma radiation from a neutron star collision.
He saw a jet of radiation traveling just below the speed of light at a speed greater than 99.97% of the speed of light.
A NASA said: "Astronomers used Hubble to measure the motion of a blob of material that the jet struck. As the jet moved away from the site of the explosion, the blob moved away. moved outward like a leaf...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a jet stream that appeared to be traveling at a speed greater than 99.7% of the speed of light, but due to an illusion, it seemed to go seven times faster
The event was seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (
Image: NASA Hubble site)
An explosion in space was captured by a NASA telescope that appeared to show a jet stream traveling at a speed greater than 99.97% of the speed of light.
But it seemed to only go at seven times the speed of light due to the illusion of "superliminal" movement.
Two neutron stars collided causing an explosion with a release of energy comparable to a supernova explosion.
The event named GW170817 was observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in August 2017, but it has taken astronomers so far to fully understand what happened with their findings published in the journal Nature .
Neutron stars are the surviving cores of massive stars that have exploded, and although they weigh more than the Sun, they could fit inside New York City due to their incredible density.
In other words, a teaspoon of surface material from a neutron star would weigh at least four billion tons on Earth.
Picture:
AFP via Getty Images)So when two neutron stars were seen colliding, it led to a massive and understandable explosion, with NASA stating that they "ripple the very fabric of time and space in a phenomenon called gravitational waves ".
And event GW170817 was the first combined detection of gravitational waves and gamma radiation from a neutron star collision.
He saw a jet of radiation traveling just below the speed of light at a speed greater than 99.97% of the speed of light.
A NASA said: "Astronomers used Hubble to measure the motion of a blob of material that the jet struck. As the jet moved away from the site of the explosion, the blob moved away. moved outward like a leaf...
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