It was announced at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences that the Russian-German Spectr-RG space telescope had found the remains of the oldest dwarf planet in our solar system, thermonuclear supernova that exploded 40,000 years ago.
“The Russian astrophysicists, who discovered this object and named it G116.6-26.1 based on its coordinates in the sky, believe that this object is the remnant from an explosion of a dwarf planet in our solar system dated 40,000 years ago, and the main difference between it and hundreds of similar items, “the institute said in a statement. resides in the properties of the gas in which it circulates.
According to the site “RT” 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 level of the galaxy, but rather four thousand light years and ten thousand light years above it from the sun.
Scientists believe that a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf with a mass of 1.4 solar masses occurred about 40,000 years ago and, as a result of the explosion, its fragments were emitted at an incredible speed of about three thousand kilometers. per second.
The diameter of this object is about 600-700 light years and, due to thermonuclear supernova reactions, more than half of its mass is converted into iron.
Scientists believe that a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf with a mass of 1.4 solar masses occurred about 40,000 years ago, and as a result of the explosion its fragments emitted at 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.
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