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Astronauts show what happens when a matchstick is lit up in space
short by Swati Dubey / on 28 Oct 2025,Tuesday
Astronauts aboard Tiangong space station lit a matchstick to demonstrate how fire behaves without gravity. Instead of the usual flickering flame, they observed a steady flame which looked bluer. Unlike on Earth, in microgravity, hot air doesn’t rise, so no upward airflow forms, making the fire diffuse in a luminous ball. This demonstrates how heat and combustion change without gravity.
short by Swati Dubey / 02:16 pm on 28 Oct
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