Magic telescopes spotted star system Binary, 5,000 light-years from Earth, where . is located RS Ophiuchus (RS Oph) In the constellation Snake Bearer, astronomers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied the pair using Magic Telescopes, a system of two atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands.
And according to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, there is an exciting explosion every 15 years of this couple, as one of them throws his substance.
The temperature and pressure in newly acquired stellar shells become too great and are thrown away in a gigantic thermonuclear explosion. the star intact, and the cycle begins again, until the scene repeats itself.
It was also expected that such explosions involve high energies, but the exact details were not clear, especially for this star system.
The telescope recorded gamma rays with a value of 250 gigaelectronvolts.GeV), which are among the highest energies ever measured, and by comparison, the energy of radiation is a hundred billion times greater than that of visible light.
The team was able to make observations of gamma rays, after initial alerts from other instruments measuring at different wavelengths.
The team explained that the astonishing eruption of RS Ophiuchi It shows that the magic telescopes’ quick response really pays off. “It takes no more than 30 seconds to move to a new target,” said David Green, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and one of the authors of the paper.