Spectr-RG telescope finds traces of unusual thermonuclear explosion in universe

Cairo – Samia Sayed – The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Research Institute has been told that the Russian-German Spectr-RG space telescope has found the remains of a thermonuclear supernova that exploded there 40,000 years old.

“Russian astrophysicists, who discovered this object and named it G116.6-26.1 after its coordinates in the sky, believe that this object is the remnant of a thermonuclear supernova explosion 40,000 years ago, and the main difference between it and hundreds of similar items, ”the institute said in a statement. lies in the properties of the gas in which it circulates.

According to the “RT” site, the researchers point out that the discovery of a thermonuclear supernova in our galaxy is very rare, and that G116.6-26.1 is not at the galaxy level, but rather above four thousand light. years and ten thousand light years from the sun. .

Scientists believe that a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf with a mass of 1.4 solar mass occurred about 40,000 years ago, and as a result of the explosion, its fragments emitted to a tremendous speed of about three thousand kilometers per second.

The diameter of this object is about 600-700 light years, and as a result of thermonuclear reactions more than half of its mass is converted to iron.