Global Scans · Stellar Explosion · Weekly Summary

• Halla could be a newborn second generation planet that coalesced from the explosive detritus of the stellar combination. The New York Times
• The fleeting atomic nuclei normally forged only in stellar explosions will find a home on Earth after the $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams fires up at Michigan State University. Australian Academy of Science
• Worlds like Earth, with oceans on their exterior, are subject to many kinds of threats to life, ranging from asteroid and comet impacts, to stellar flares with dangerous radiation, to nearby supernova explosions and more. Southwest Research Institute
• A future or extraterrestrial civilization would choose space-based shielding in its own planetary system as a response to the threat of any nearby stellar explosion. Centauri Dreams

Last updated: 31 March 2025