Sentences with phrase «supersonic shock»

Using the Kepler space telescope, the team spent three years observing 50 trillion stars for the chance to watch as supersonic shock waves reached their surfaces after explosions deep in the core.

When these massive stars run out of fuel in their center, their core collapses down to a neutron star and a supersonic shock wave is sent out.

A detonation sweeps through an explosive as a supersonic shock wave driven by the energy - releasing chemical reactions the wave induces.

And some shoots like a jet from the disk's center at velocities up to 30 times the speed of sound, triggering supersonic shock waves.

Aerodynamics engineers did wind tunnel tests of the PAL ramps and determined they were necessary to protect a cable tray and pressurisation lines from supersonic shocks.

Not exact matches

If they can survive the shock wave and not shatter into bits, if the pilot understands the wild readings on the instruments, they soon pass into the smoothness and serenity of supersonic flight.

Both involve an explosion and creation of a shock wave that travels at supersonic speeds through the surrounding gas.

Since no volume of air moves against another at supersonic speed, shock waves never form.

Even at takeoff, the fuel exhaust shoots out the back at supersonic speeds, and when it hits the surrounding air, it creates shock waves that make a fearsome racket.

And they know next to nothing about the effect shock waves would have on a supersonic vehicle so close to the ground.

Now, Knipp and her team have determined that when such powerful CMEs come off the sun and speed toward Earth, they create shock waves much like supersonic aircraft create sonic booms.

The planet's shock wave would be pushed in front of it as it orbits at supersonic speeds, and the wave would absorb some of the UV light emitted from the star.

As long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per second.

Moreover, Mira's course has been taking it through a relatively dense zone of interstellar space, and its interaction with molecules of gas and dust creates a bow - shock effect, similar to what happens when a bullet or a supersonic aircraft travels through air.

Pilots at the US air force test pilot school flew this supersonic T - 38C jet to the right place at the right time so that NASA could capture this photograph of the jet's shock waves.

A new study of these anomalous arms made with Spitzer shows that shock waves, similar to sonic booms from supersonic planes, are heating large amounts of gas — equivalent to about 10 million suns.