Sentences with phrase «as the star dies»

As the star dies, the nuclear fusion reactions stop because the fuel for these reactions gets used up.

Not exact matches

Patty Duke, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in «The Miracle Worker» and starred as two cousins on her own sitcom, has died, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

As a Star Trek nerd, I remember the Klingons would dream of dying in battle — dying well.

Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients for new life, new planets, new humans in fact as both you and I and everyone on the planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.

I hypothesize that a galaxy - worth of stars had to die, a galaxy - worth of super-novae had to explosively obliterate themselves for life, as we know it, to exist.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Update (Mar. 15): Morning Star News reports that Ezzat Hakim Attalah, the Christian missionary who died while being held in jail in Libya last week, likely died as a result of torture.

«Die, Rocky Die» is a poor comparison, because Rocky wasn't getting a reaction as big as Roman, and he was not one of the top stars in the company at the time.

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A few years ago Jack Wilshere was hailed as the next big English star and was loved for his do - or - die attitude for Arsenal.

Kim is a bright, young star from a South Korean nation that lives and dies with golf as much as any other sport.

After the disappointment of seeing another Arsenal title challenge wither and die, the Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that our star striker Alexis Sanchez had lost faith with Arsene Wenger and the club in general and was ready to ship out to pastures new was like pouring salt onto an open wound for Arsenal fans, but judging from the way the Chilean put himself about against Man City today, perhaps that salt should be taken as a pinch rather than added to those wounds.

Jean - Gabriel Pageau was the star in the game, as his four goal effort was wrapped up with a natural hat trick that brought the Senators from two goals down in the dying minutes of the third period to claiming a huge 2 - 0 series lead after sweeping the first two games on home ice.

Pastrnak scores in dying seconds as Bruins edge Stars TSN I think the Stars are officially dead, guys.

Rock star Hallyday, known as the French Elvis, died aged 74 on Wednesday after a battle with lung cancer.

When New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died on Saturday, he left behind an enormous portfolio of work and a mourning staff at Stage Star Deli who thought of him as family.

(CNN)-- County results certified Tuesday show «American Idol» star Clay Aiken as the winner of a Democratic congressional primary in North Carolina by fewer than 400 votes, one day after his chief opponent died suddenly.

Nonetheless, Ghanaians hold their team in utmost regard, hailing the Black Stars as one of the best football teams in Africa, and citing, in particular, Luis Suarez's goal - line handball in the dying seconds of the quarter - final between Ghana and Uruguay during the 2010 World Cup.

So, too, do astrophysical exotica such as neutron stars and white dwarfs — the remnants left by normal stars when they die.

After shining for many millions of years, stars end their lives, mainly, in two ways: very high mass stars die very violently as supernovae, while low mass stars end as planetary nebulae.

The particles that make up comets began life as the dying breaths of previous generations of stars.

But it is not some kind of Star Trek heaven — where a young, brilliant researcher with a bright idea today can save her old grandfather from dying of lung cancer 6 months later — as it is frequently portrayed by the media.

During this period, six normal supernovae have occurred within the galaxies we've been monitoring, suggesting that 10 to 30 percent of massive stars die as failed supernovae,» he said.

Strangely, though, none of those stars was bigger than about 17 solar masses, even though much more massive stars abound and should also be dying as supernovae.

The fiery engine inside those stars, as well as the violent explosion of the very massive ones that died, fused atoms together to create heavier atoms.

The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas exploding in rapid succession as each generation of giant stars dies out.

And in 1987, trillions of neutrinos arrived 3 hours before the dying star's light caught up, just as physicists would have expected.

In the recent movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the face of the character Grand Moff Tarkin was constructed digitally, as the actor who had originally played him had died.

When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova, which includes a short burst of visible light, as in this illustration.

In their new study, the Leicester - led team assesses whether these laws are the same within the hot, dense conditions in the atmosphere of a dying white dwarf star as here on Earth.

Last April astronomical detectives announced a break: An orbiting X-ray observatory picked up the chemical fingerprints of several elements in a burst's afterglow, identifying the object as an unusual type of supernova — the detonation of a massive, dying star.

«This is particularly important because it indicates that as successive generations of stars die and eject the elements they produced into the galaxy, the heaviest elements are produced together, while previous work had suggested that this was not the case,» Dauphas explained.

As this happens, the dying star's wind pushes out from the center against the disk, shaping it into a bright, dense, expanding ring.

In particular, astronomers were hoping for clues as to what forces might have shaped the Helix's ragged edge, which looks like a series of arrows pointing back to the dying star at the center.

Heavy elements such as oxygen and nitrogen — spat out by dying stars — boost the rate of nuclear reactions.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.

It's not clear why, although one possibility is that the star is on its way to dying a spectacular death as an exploding supernova.

Stars that explode and die then replenish the gas clouds as well as moving the gas about and mixing it up.

Big stars with low metal content don't shed as much of their mass over time, so when one of them dies, almost all of its mass will wind up in the black hole.

Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed about a tenth of its hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.

In rare cases, black hole births are even more spectacular, with the star firing out powerful jets of high - energy radiation as it dies — a phenomenon known as a gamma - ray burst.

As the ejected material rammed into the cloud, some energy from its motion could have been converted into light and heat, powering the dying star's extreme and persistent brightness.

Some of these early stars were huge, a hundred times as massive as the sun, and lived short, spectacular lives, dying in gigantic explosions known as supernovae.

A new study suggests that as a star begins to die and slowly expands outward, it would temporarily light up as it eats the worlds it hosts (The Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi.org/cjhc).

Story number 2: Rock and pop stars are more than twice as likely to die an early death as the rest of us.

That points to neutron stars — which form when short - lived massive stars in stellar nurseries die — as the source of fast radio bursts.

«Hoyle's equation,» as Clayton calls it, relates the mass of heavy elements ejected by dying stars to the rate of their death and the change in abundance of the various isotopes produced during successive nuclear reactions.

Also, he points out, if there is a huge population of stars outside galaxies, we should see a noticeable number of supernovas occurring out in the middle of nowhere as those rogues stars die.

These observations show how the unexpectedly large size of the particles of dust surrounding the star enable it to lose an enormous amount of mass as it begins to die.