ejecta

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Seeing exactly how the ejecta blast outward and interact is key to explaining how shock waves form in novae.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

"We actually used the equations of volcanoes to predict how fast ejecta would fly - 90 meters per second," he told BBC News.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

But then sometime between day 200 and 1000 the ejecta must have clashed with the hollow ring of star stuff, causing it to light up again.

From Space Scoop • Mar. 21, 2023

A blue kilonova can be produced by fast-moving ejecta made mainly of lighter heavy elements without any “lanthanides”—the metallic periodic elements from lanthanum to lutetium, which are highly opaque to blue light.

From Scientific American • Jan. 9, 2023

Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson