The phenomenon known as ‘shock diamonds’ in the afterburner of a NASA SR-71B Jet looks strikingly similar to an enormous high-powered astronomical jet seen emanating from a distant galaxy.

The J79 engine cutaway (Image credit: GE via Wiki). According to the datasheet data, the J79’s maximum thrust was 11,905 lbf (52.96 kN) dry; 17,835 lbf (79.33 kN) with afterburner.

When the afterburner isn't engaged and the jet is flying at cruising speed, the engine acts as a typical turbojet. It might add an extra 50% of thrust, but pilots have to use the afterburner ...

Shock Diamonds and Mach Disks in jet engines exhaust can be particularly evident and fascinating at night. The video below shows RAF Lakenheath’s Propulsion Test Cell during a test of an F-15E ...

GE Aerospace made public the accomplishments of a particular F404 engine that was flown on three different aircraft over the ...

The tests were aimed at verifying the performance of the X-59's General Electric F414-GE-100 jet engine, a modified version of the engine used in Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet flown by the U.S. Navy.

An extended jet of material traveling near the speed of light emerges from a distant galaxy, looking quite similar to the afterburner pattern of a jet engine on Earth. This galactic jet flow is ...

The afterburners on the Olympus engines that powered the Concorde supersonic jet added only about 17 percent to that engine’s thrust. For the engines that power modern fighters, the increase ...

A humongous jet of material ejected from the center of a distant galaxy looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, and scientists say it may have formed in a similar way ...