Can you hear explosions in space?

No, you cannot hear any sounds in near-empty regions of space. Sound travels through the vibration of atoms and molecules in a medium (such as air or water). In space, where there is no air, sound has no way to travel.
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Do explosions make noise in space?

In space no one can hear you explode… Many astronomical objects such as novae, supernovae and black hole mergers are known to catastrophically 'explode'.
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Why can Explosions be heard in space?

Because space is a vacuum, gases released into space expand very quickly, and as they expand their density decreases. So say you were in a spaceship in the middle of a big space battle and a nearby ship exploded. The exploding ship would release gases and technically sound could travel along with them.
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Can you hear a supernova in space?

There's no sound in space, so you can't hear what a supernova sounds like. But if you're willing to consider swapping out your listening meats for other more impressive cybernetic components, there are possibilities.
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What is the loudest sound in the universe?

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano eruption was the loudest sound recorded on Earth, but there are much louder sounds in space, even though we technically can't hear them.
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How loud is a Hypernova?

A kilonova is smaller, by a factor of 10 to 100, so 420 to 430 decibels, and a hypernova (really just a very large supernova) might be bigger by a factor of 10, so about 450 decibels.
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What does space smell like?

Astronaut Thomas Jones said it "carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell…a little like gunpowder, sulfurous." Tony Antonelli, another space-walker, said space "definitely has a smell that's different than anything else." A gentleman named Don Pettit was a bit more verbose on the topic: "Each time, when I ...
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Would a grenade explode in space?

Grenades generally explode on the ground, creating a mushroom like blast that we usually see in movies. In space, it would become nearly a spherical blast, but the format will vary significantly with the grenade shape. Chemical propellant, so it would go off, also depends on its fuse system it uses.
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Can you have fire in space?

Fires can't start in space itself because there is no oxygen – or indeed anything else – in a vacuum. Yet inside the confines of spacecraft, and freed from gravity, flames behave in strange and beautiful ways. They burn at cooler temperatures, in unfamiliar shapes and are powered by unusual chemistry.
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What a black hole sounds like?

A bounty of black holes surround the Sagittarius A supermassive black hole which lies at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groaning, as if a very creaky heavy door was being opened again and again.
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Do stars make noise when they explode?

Sounds—which are simply pressure variations in a medium such as air or water—can't propagate in the vacuum of space, so the roiling surface of a star would make an impression on the eyes, but not the ears. A supernova would sound like 10 octillion two-megaton nuclear bombs exploding.
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What would an explosion in space look like?

An explosion in space would realistically look like a brief spherical burst of light moving outwards, as well as a discharge of energy and material from the exploding object (energy and light can both travel in a vacuum).
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How loud is a black hole?

Apparently, a sound of 1,100 decibels would create so much energy, it would act as a immensely high quantity of mass. This would, in turn, create enough gravity to form an extremely large black hole! Larger, in fact, than our observable universe.
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Can you hear a sound in spaceship?

The vacuum of outer space has essentially zero air. Because sound is just vibrating air, space has no air to vibrate and therefore no sound. If you are sitting in a space ship and another space ship explodes, you would hear nothing.
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Is there any kind of sound in space?

So, in order for sound to travel, there has to be something with molecules for it to travel through. On Earth, sound travels to your ears by vibrating air molecules. In deep space, the large empty areas between stars and planets, there are no molecules to vibrate. There is no sound there.
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How cold is space?

According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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What's the most powerful explosion in the universe?

GRB 080916C is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that was recorded on September 16, 2008, in the Carina constellation and detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. It is the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded.
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What would happen if there was an explosion in space?

If a nuclear weapon is exploded in a vacuum-i. e., in space-the complexion of weapon effects changes drastically: First, in the absence of an atmosphere, blast disappears completely. Second, thermal radiation, as usually defined, also disappears.
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Do you age in space?

In space, people usually experience environmental stressors like microgravity, cosmic radiation, and social isolation, which can all impact aging. Studies on long-term space travel often measure aging biomarkers such as telomere length and heartbeat rates, not epigenetic aging.
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Can you fart in space?

Surprisingly, that isn't the biggest problem associated with farting in space. Though you're definitely more likely to worsen a small fire when you fart, it won't always injure or kill you. The worst part about farting in space is the lack of airflow. Let's take a step back and remember how farting on Earth works.
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Why is space dark?

Because space is a near-perfect vacuum — meaning it has exceedingly few particles — there's virtually nothing in the space between stars and planets to scatter light to our eyes. And with no light reaching the eyes, they see black.
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How many decibels would destroy the universe?

Converting the energy of 1,100 decibels to mass yields 1.113x1080 kg, meaning that the radius of the resulting black hole's event horizon would exceed the diameter of the known universe. Voila! No more universe.
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What is louder than a supernova?

Yes, technically a fart on earth is louder than a supernova in space.
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How big is a Kilonova?

They are 1⁄10 to 1⁄100 the brightness of a typical supernova, the self-detonation of a massive star.
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