Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, rainbow-like shock wave surrounding a dead star that technically should not exist. The ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The never-before-seen phenomenon has been discovered around a white dwarf, named ...

George Duvall, 82, whose groundbreaking work advanced scientists’ understanding of shock-wave physics, died Jan. 6 of unspecified causes. Duvall pioneered the study of shock-wave propagation in solids ...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Sandia National Laboratories physicists Mark Boslough and Dave Crawford predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see a rising vapor plume as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed ...

This may come as a shock, if you're moving fast enough. The shock being shock waves. A balloon's 'pop' is shock waves generated by exploded bits of the balloon moving faster than the speed of sound.

Hypersonic flow and shock wave dynamics represent a critical domain in aerospace science, where the physics of high-speed fluid motion are explored under extreme thermodynamic and chemical conditions.

Scientists have found new details about how supernovas boost charged particles to nearly the speed of light. When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding them.

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, colorful shock wave apparently blasting out from a white dwarf that was ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...