Reply to post: Re: "Supersonic"?

Supernova bubble clocked at 19,000,000 km/h

Chris Miller

Re: "Supersonic"?

Space isn't a perfect vacuum, so you can still sensibly talk about the speed of sound. It depends on the local density (which varies considerably), but order of magnitude should be ~100 km/sec or 360,000 km/h.

Incidentally 19,000,000 km/h is getting on for 0.02c.

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