Explaining The Universe on Instagram: "A jet engine works by continuously taking in air, compressing it to high pressure with a multi-stage compressor, mixing a small amount of fuel with that compressed air and burning it to produce very hot, high-energy gas, then allowing that gas to expand and rush out the back; the expanding flow spins a turbine that powers the compressor, and the rearward jet of exhaust produces forward thrust by Newton’s third law. In most modern aircraft the basic gas-gene