For context, this wikipedia article on the Bullet Cluster has the following bit:
"The Bullet Cluster is one of the hottest-known clusters of galaxies. It provides an observable constraint for cosmological models, which may diverge at temperatures beyond their predicted critical cluster temperature.[1] Observed from Earth, the subcluster passed through the cluster center 150 million years ago, creating a "bow-shaped shock wave located near the right side of the cluster" formed as "70 million kelvin gas in the sub-cluster plowed through 100 million kelvin gas in the main cluster at a speed of about nearly 10 million km/h (6 million miles per hour)".[5][6][7] The bow shock radiation output is equivalent to the energy of 10 typical quasars."
Hey everybody! I’m Derek Künsken and my science fiction family saga “The House of Styx” came out last week from the Solaris Books. Quebecois colonists are living a tough life in the clouds of Venus, resource-poor, partly under the control of an anglo bank. A number of families have gone off the grid, living within strange buoyant Venusian life in the clouds, surviving the heat, pressure and acid. The D’Aquillon family finds a strange storm on the surface of Venus that shouldn’t be there. It’s the first book in a duology.
I studied molecular biology (and built viruses) before working with street kids in Central America and eventually joining the Canadian diplomatic service. Now I write in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. My Quantum Evolution series (the first two books are “The Quantum Magician” and “The Quantum Garden”) happens in the same universe as “The House of Styx” and was nominated for several awards and got translated into Russian, French, Japanese and Chinese. I’d been selling short stories for about ten years before that happened.
I love talking science, science fiction, writing, comics and generally nerd stuff.
Proof: https://i.redd.it/0c0f87ivo3a51.jpg
