explosions

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Pasadena officials are warning that residents may hear helicopters, controlled explosions and simulated weapons fire as the U.S. military conducts a training exercise in the northeast area of the city Wednesday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Iranian media reported that explosions were heard to the east of the city.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have finally uncovered what powers some of the brightest stellar explosions ever observed.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Other tests have ended in explosions, including one last June that shook homes miles away.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

And there is so much time to be endured, time heavy as fried food or thick fog; and then all at once these red events, like explosions, on streets otherwise decorous and matronly and somnambulent.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood