The Coldest Place in the Universe: Boomerang Nebula’s Mind-Blowing Temperatures

KOMPAS.com – When talking about the coldest places in the world, the South Pole to the Arctic Circle, have extreme cold temperatures.

In general, the average temperature of the earth varies from minus -25 to -45 degrees Celsius. One of the coldest places on earth is the East Antarctic plateau.

Quoted from the Live Science page, this location can have the lowest temperature reaching -98 degrees Celsius.

The researchers found that the factors that cause this cold temperature are sunny conditions and very dry air, because humidity can trap heat in the air.

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If the East Antarctic region is the coldest place on earth, then where is the coldest place in the universe?

The cold temperature of the universe

Reporting from the IFL Science page, after the Big Bang, the universe became very hot, but as it expanded, the universe cooled, like gas in a cooling cycle.

The remaining energy from the initial explosion produces cosmic background radiation, which generally causes temperatures to be about -270 celsius below the temperature everywhere.

As the universe ages, this temperature will decrease further, but this happens very slowly.

In 1995 astronomers discovered something unexpected deep in the southern sky.

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The Boomerang Nebula has a temperature of just -272 celsius, causing it to absorb energy from the surrounding cosmic background, rather than emitting it as energy.

This temperature has been confirmed in several studies, but it took 20 years to find an explanation.

However, Boomerang is a planetary nebula, or is in the process of becoming a planetary nebula.

Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars are not massive enough to explode as a supernova turning into a white dwarf.

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Get to know the Boomerang Nebula

Quoted from the Space.com page. The coldest place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, which is the largest object discovered so far.

It is located about 5,000 light years from Earth, and is in the constellation Centaurus.

The Boomerang Nebula is a reflective cloud of ionized dust and gas – a young planetary nebula with a red giant star at its center.

Once a Sun-like star, it shed its outer layers during the final stages of its life.

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But it is known that it is losing mass about 100 times faster than other similar dead stars.

The interior temperature of the Boomerang Nebula is -272 degrees Celsius. This temperature is three times colder than the temperature recorded at Dome Fuji, Antarctica in 2010, -93.2 degrees Celsius.

The study found that the low temperature was caused by the rapid acceleration of the gas. Boomerangs are considered very cool because they expand very quickly, but whatever is driving the expansion doesn’t produce much heat.

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2023-12-17 08:30:00
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