#Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why #fluid structures form in #plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around #supernova 1987A, research from the University of Michigan suggests.
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https://www.sflorg.com/2024/03/sn03132402.html
www.sflorg.comExplaining a supernova’s ‘string of pearls’It looks like the same mechanism that breaks up airplane contrails might be at play in forming the clumps of hydrogen gas that ring the remnant of sup