{"id":98411,"date":"2019-11-12T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nasa-scientists-detect-huge-thermonuclear-blast-deep-in-space"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:03:27","slug":"nasa-scientists-detect-huge-thermonuclear-blast-deep-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nasa-scientists-detect-huge-thermonuclear-blast-deep-in-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast Deep in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1FkoWncpMYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA recently detected a massive thermonuclear explosion coming from outer space.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit seems to be a distant pulsar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2019\/nasas-nicer-catches-record-setting-x-ray-burst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the space agency reports<\/a>, which is the stellar remains of a star that blew up in a supernova but was too small <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/astronomers-biggest-neutron-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to form a black hole<\/a>. NASA spotted the burst because it sent out an intense beam of x-rays that got picked up by the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-autonomous-space-navigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">orbital observatory NICER<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it serves as a potent reminder: space is an extremely dangerous, extremely metal place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA recently detected a massive thermonuclear explosion coming from outer space. The culprit seems to be a distant pulsar, the space agency reports, which is the stellar remains of a star that blew up in a supernova but was too small to form a black hole. NASA spotted the burst because it sent out an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98411","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}