Sentences with phrase «as the supernova evolved»

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Metals (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) are created in the interiors of stars as they evolve and then released into surrounding gas through supernova explosions or stellar winds (often referred to as chemical evolution).

As a star evolves it produces increasingly heavy elements, and by the time it reaches supernova status, the star is producing iron, the heaviest element possible for it to make.

«It could be created by a superluminous supernova or a long gamma ray burst, and then later on, as it evolves and its rotation slows down a bit, it produces these fast radio bursts as well as continuous radio emission powered by that spindown.

«And each day, as the supernova got stronger, the lines [in the spectrum] evolved.

Before 1987, astronomers believed that only red supergiants would explode as supernovae, but this observation proved that other types of evolved stars can produce these explosions too.

The violent outflowing winds as seen in Eta Carinae herald the end of a star's life as a supernova, and their study provides scientists with clues about how such stars evolve and die.

According to current theory, two different mechanisms produce supernovae: First, stars considerably more massive than our Sun can most probably not evolve quietly into an end state as a white dwarf.

Both would have been born from massive stars that evolved in close proximity in ancient star factories as a binary pair, eventually dying as supernovas.

Such large and luminous massive stars are believed to be highly evolved, all of which suggests that W26 is coming towards the end of its life and will eventually explode as a supernova.