Can a nuke even blow up in space?

[Luke Cage]

Ahh, ok. That's a bit different, but, there's still no fire. Just a MASSIVE ejection of billions of tons superheated plasma. If you have a decent telescope, you can actually see what happened after a supernova occurred in the Crab Nebula.........​

What would an accurate deathstar explosion look like?

would it just look like legos breaking apart?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

What would an accurate deathstar explosion look like?

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Try looking at the Sun, directly, with no sunglasses on, at high noon.​

THAT'S what it should look like.

It is also completely silent.​

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

@Hawaiian Punch

there’s no air in space so you wouldn’t get the shockwave and mushroom cloud. Still you probably have to worry about radiation I guess

 

[Neuromancer]

there’s no air in space so you wouldn’t get the shockwave and mushroom cloud. Still you probably have to worry about radiation I guess

There's ambient radiation in space right?

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

There's ambient radiation in space right?

cosmic microwave background which is remnants of the Big Bang.

 

[Geek Nasty]

What would an accurate deathstar explosion look like?

would it just look like legos breaking apart?

It would be in extremely slow motion. If the Death Star blew up at the speed of sound it would take 30 minutes for the fireball to reach the size of that gif