Astronomers see an Enormous Shockwave, 60 Times Bigger Than the Milky Way
Updated: 2022-02-28 04:05:10
, Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Posted on February 27, 2022 February 27, 2022 by Andy Tomaswick Astronomers see an Enormous Shockwave , 60 Times Bigger Than the Milky Way Astronomers have a thing for big explosions and collisions and it always seems like they are trying to one-up themselves in finding a bigger , brighter one. Thereâ s a new entrant to that category an event so big it created a burst of particles over 1 billion years ago that is still visible today and is 60 times bigger than the entire Milky . Way That shockwave was created by the merger of two galaxy clusters to create a supercluster known as Abell 3667. This was one of the most energetic events in the universe since the Big Bang , according to calculations by Professor Francesco de Gasperin
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Posted on February 25, 2022 February 25, 2022 by Matt Williams An Exoplanet is Definitely Orbiting Two Stars Remember that iconic scene in Star Wars , where a young Skywalker steps out onto the surface of Tatooine and watches the setting of two suns As it turns out , this may be what it is like for lifeforms on the exoplanet known as Kepler-16 a rocky planet that orbits in a binary star system . Originally discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission , an international team of astronomers recently confirmed that this planet orbits two stars at once what is known as a circumbinary planet . The international team , led by Professor Amaury Triaud of the University of Birmingham comprises members of the BEBOP collaboration . This observation