{"id":203703,"date":"2025-01-14T03:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-are-captivated-by-a-perfect-explosion-a-spherical-cosmic-fireball"},"modified":"2025-01-14T03:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:14:03","slug":"astronomers-are-captivated-by-a-perfect-explosion-a-spherical-cosmic-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-are-captivated-by-a-perfect-explosion-a-spherical-cosmic-fireball","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers are captivated by a \u2018perfect explosion,\u2019 a spherical cosmic fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-are-captivated-by-a-perfect-explosion-a-spherical-cosmic-fireball3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Perfect Cosmic Fireball<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have unveiled the extraordinary details of a nearly perfect spherical explosion\u2014a kilonova\u2014caused by the collision of two neutron stars. This dramatic event unfolded in 2017 in the galaxy NGC 4,993, located 140\u2013150 million light years from Earth in the Hydra constellation. With a combined mass of 2.7 times that of the sun, the neutron stars had orbited each other for billions of years before their explosive merger.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Albert Sneppen of the Cosmic Dawn Center described the event as \u201ca perfect explosion\u201d due to its symmetry and scientific implications. The kilonova\u2019s luminous fireball emitted a light equivalent to a billion suns for several days, dwarfing any earthly nuclear explosion in intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perfect Cosmic Fireball Astronomers have unveiled the extraordinary details of a nearly perfect spherical explosion\u2014a kilonova\u2014caused by the collision of two neutron stars. This dramatic event unfolded in 2017 in the galaxy NGC 4,993, located 140\u2013150 million light years from Earth in the Hydra constellation. With a combined mass of 2.7 times that of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}