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If a satellite or spaceship explodes in outer space you can see the explostion but not hear it why?
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∙ 7y ago
Because sound needs a material medium to travel through, and can't go anywhere
through the vacuum of space.
Besides, even if it could, it would take sound ... moving at the speed of sound ...
874 thousand years to cover one light year of distance. We'd still be hanging around
waiting to hear the supernova that was discovered in 1054 AD.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 8y agoSound travels through air or solid material. There is no air in outer space.
Adding on would like to mention that sound waves required medium to travel, in order to do so it must have a conductive medium, which space doesn't have since there is vacuum out there. So it doesn't reach us.
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∙ 8y agoSupernovae are trillions and trillions of miles away, first of all.
Secondly, sound cannot travel through empty space. If there were really X-fighters like in Star Wars, they would be totally silent for the same reason.
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∙ 14y agosound cannot travel in a vacuum as there is no "air" to carry sound waves
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∙ 13y agowhen phenomenon took place in 1980 with the explosion it equal to 25000 atoms but it doesnt travel n materials
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∙ 13y agoyou can't see them because they are hundreds of light-years away
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∙ 13y agoThe reason nothing can be heard in space is because there is no air for the sound to travel through. If a tree falls in space, it doesn't make a sound. :)
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Light travels in vacuum but sound cannot. So, we can see solar flares but can't hear them. (Outer space can be considered to be vacuum)
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Supernova
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The spaceship will move in a straight line at constant speed.
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A neutron star
If a satellite or spaceship explodes in outer space you can see the explosion from a distance but why can you not hear it?
Light travels in vacuum but sound cannot. So, we can see solar flares but can't hear them. (Outer space can be considered to be vacuum)
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through a spaceship get it star celebrity into outer space thorough a spaceship oh whatever
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the spaceship was used to explore outer space
Who invented the spaceship and where was it invented?
I think that a 'Spaceship' needs to be defined before anyone answers your question. A Spaceship is a fanciful science fiction object . A Spaceship is not another name for a Satellite or Space Station. Spaceships are the things of novelists whom write make believe stories about people traveling off into outer space beyond the earth's atmosphere. Because there never was and have not yet been any spaceships available for people to travel into outer space, then they are certainly not an invention. They are simply a fictional idea.
How they get the satellite into outer space?
they built it in outer space
What is a star that explodes and throw off a bright outer shell of gas called?
A star that explodes is called a supernova.
What outer planets was visited by a spaceship from earth in 1989?
PLUTO
Could you hear a spaceship explode in outer space?
The answere is no.
When a outer portion of a star explodes does it produce super nova?
no
What is produced when the outer core of star explodes after the core collapses?
Supernova
What is produced when the outer core of the star explodes after the core collapses?
Supernova
What is produced when the outer core of a star explodes after the star collapses?
Supernova
