Definition of asthenosphere : a zone of a celestial body (such as the earth) which lies beneath the lithosphere and within which the material is believed to yield readily to persistent stresses asthenospheric
Fraser: Right. Pamela: And so any time you hear a noise in space, if you hear explosions, thatâs probably your own spacecraft, and the noise is transferring through the hull and through the air in your spacecraft. Other than that, youâre not going to hear explosions.
Somewhere in our galaxy a star exploded, throwing out masses of gas and dust. This supernova, as these explosions are called, happened about 5bn years ago. The wreckage from the explosion then crashed into a nearby cloud of gas, bringing together the ingredients for our solar system to form. Because the explosion was so energetic it made the dust mixture very hot and things began to cook.