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You might have heard the noise of an aircraft sonic boom but have you ever seen it?

Now you will. NASA


has recently developed a way to capture mind blowing images of shock waves created by jet fighters.
These were captured as the planes broke the sound barrier hovering over the sky.

Background-Oriented Schlieren using Celestrial Objects, or BOSCO technique has revealed major details
about supersonic shockwaves to NASA. Specially, a visual illustration of how each surface of a supersonic
T-38C produces a unique shock wave as the air buckles around it. To capture the images, T-38C Talon Jet
was flown by test pilots at speeds faster than the speed of sound - 761mph - to reach a specific point in
the sky from where the ground cameras could capture images at a certain angle standing below the sun.
After decades of experiments, finally this breakthrough in the field is expected to help develop quieter
supersonic passenger planes in the future

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