{"id":241298,"date":"2026-07-22T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/mysterious-gas-bullets-race-from-milky-ways-only-known-helium-nova-at-up-to-20-million-mph"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:15:15","slug":"mysterious-gas-bullets-race-from-milky-ways-only-known-helium-nova-at-up-to-20-million-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/mysterious-gas-bullets-race-from-milky-ways-only-known-helium-nova-at-up-to-20-million-mph","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious gas \u2018bullets\u2019 race from Milky Way\u2019s only known helium nova at up to 20 million mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-gas-bullets-race-from-milky-ways-only-known-helium-nova-at-up-to-20-million-mph2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mysterious high-speed \u201cbullets\u201d\u2014clumps of possibly oxygen-rich gas traveling at up to 20 million miles per hour\u2014have been discovered shooting out of the rarest stellar explosion in our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>They were spotted after a cloud of debris surrounding the Milky Way\u2019s only known helium nova finally cleared after more than 20 years, revealing that an unusual stellar system was to blame for the extraordinary explosion.<\/p>\n<p>But the origin of the \u201cbullets\u201d is an enigma that has left astronomers puzzled\u2014nothing of their kind has ever been observed in other novae throughout the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysterious high-speed \u201cbullets\u201d\u2014clumps of possibly oxygen-rich gas traveling at up to 20 million miles per hour\u2014have been discovered shooting out of the rarest stellar explosion in our galaxy. They were spotted after a cloud of debris surrounding the Milky Way\u2019s only known helium nova finally cleared after more than 20 years, revealing that an unusual [\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-241298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241298","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=241298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}