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Subject Scientists create a 'SUPERNOVA' in the lab: Beams 60,000 billion times more powerful than a laser pointer cause mini explosion

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•A team from Oxford University have recreated a supernova explosion

•The experiment was performed with the UK's Vulcan laser facility

•They heated a rod to millions of degrees by focusing 3 laser beams on it

•The rod then exploded into a surrounding gas, mimicking the interaction between a star going supernova and the interstellar medium

•Results prove that supernovas do not expand uniformly as once thought
•Could also solve the mystery of how magnetic fields formed in the universe
A team of scientists have recreated a supernova in a laboratory.

Using laser beams 60,000 billion times more powerful than a laser pointer, the Oxford University team made scaled supernova explosions on a table-top.

They say this could be used to study supernova explosions in the laboratory, instead of observing them in space.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2646072/Scientists-create-SUPERNOVA-lab-Beams-60-000-billion-times-powerful-laser-pointer-cause-mini-explosion.html
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Original Message •A team from Oxford University have recreated a supernova explosion

•The experiment was performed with the UK's Vulcan laser facility

•They heated a rod to millions of degrees by focusing 3 laser beams on it

•The rod then exploded into a surrounding gas, mimicking the interaction between a star going supernova and the interstellar medium

•Results prove that supernovas do not expand uniformly as once thought
•Could also solve the mystery of how magnetic fields formed in the universe
A team of scientists have recreated a supernova in a laboratory.

Using laser beams 60,000 billion times more powerful than a laser pointer, the Oxford University team made scaled supernova explosions on a table-top.

They say this could be used to study supernova explosions in the laboratory, instead of observing them in space.
[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

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