Most people would probably agree that astronomy is an inspiring subject, blowing our minds with astonishing facts
about exploding stars, extrasolar planets and supermassive black holes while beguiling our eyes with awesome vistas of alien worlds and distant galaxies.
These energetic particles, called (somewhat misleadingly) cosmic rays, tell revealing tales
about the exploding stars and black holes that have shaped galaxies and seeded the cosmos with the essential elements of life.
Short films
about exploding stars and subatomic particles top the list of prizewinners from the annual Quantum Shorts contest
Not exact matches
The first phrases talk
about creating the Heavens and the Earth and yet the Earth didn't exist until ~ 9 billion years after the «Heavens», in fact couldn't have existed until a few generations of
stars burned and
exploded.
Such 3 - D reconstructions encode important information for astronomers
about how massive
stars actually
explode.
Combining the data with theoretical models, the team estimated that the initial mass of the
star was
about 20 times the mass of our sun, though it lost most of its mass, probably to a companion
star, and slimmed down to
about 5 solar masses prior to
exploding.
About 340 years ago a massive
star exploded in the constellation Cassiopeia.
«The most massive, hottest
stars can form, grow, swell,
explode and leave a neutron
star emitting X-rays in
about 5 million years.»
Watch
stars explode and space - time rip at the seams in breaking stories
about the universe.
The same can't be said
about dark energy, a truly astonishing discovery made by astronomers a decade ago while observing distant
exploding stars.
Larger
stars — those with more than
about eight solar masses — will
explode as supernovas.
A type Ia supernova that
exploded when the universe was half its present size is
about one ten - billionth as bright as Sirius, the brightest
star in the sky.
Because neutrinos scarcely interact with matter, they should escape an
exploding star almost immediately, while photons of light will take
about 3 hours to get out.
The
star exploded in the neighboring galaxy M82,
about 12 million lightyears away, making it the nearest type Ia supernova in decades.
Four images of the same supernova flashed in the constellation Leo as its light bent around a galaxy sitting
about 6 billion light - years away between Hubble and the
exploding star, researchers report in the March 6 Science.
Previously, astrophysicists disagreed
about where the r - process occurs: Two top candidates were
exploding stars called supernovas (SN: 2/18/17, p. 24) and neutron
star mergers.
An alert system to notify astronomers
about Gaia discoveries of transient events like supernovae (
exploding stars) is already in operation.
The interstellar gas is blown
about by shock waves from
exploding stars that can propel it at thousands of kilometres per second — fast enough to cross the Earth in...
In 1006, observers watched a
star explode in the constellation Lupus that shone
about a dozen times more brilliantly than Venus ever does.
One possibility, notes astronomer and lead author Patrick Dufour of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is that the
stars simply might not have grown massive enough —
about 10 times heavier than the sun — to
explode but are so close to the limit that they might be harboring abnormally high amounts of carbon.
Stars that
explode and die then replenish the gas clouds as well as moving the gas
about and mixing it up.
Pulsars, the dense spinning remnants of
exploded stars, contain
about the same mass as the sun crushed into a wad of neutrons less than 10 miles wide.
And with just one of LIGO's observations, we learned something
about how a
star exploded billions of years ago.
They really have a strong reluctance to mingle with other particles, which makes them antisocial and difficult to pin down, but they are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot
about many different things, many different mysteries
about the nature of matter,
about what triggers
exploding stars, to what's going on in the heart of the sun, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions within seconds after the big bang.
Ray Jayawardhana: They are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot
about the nature of matter,
about what triggers
exploding stars, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions within seconds after the big bang.
The characteristics of the surrounding
stars suggest that although the magnetar's progenitor probably reached 40 solar masses at one point, it shed its mass so quickly that when the
star exploded it fell under the 20 - solar - mass limit, thereby creating a magnetar instead of a black hole — and conforming to current theory
about stellar evolution.
But, if you think
about it, all of the
stars that have
exploded over cosmic history have produced a neutrino background that's going throughout the universe.
The result confirms that researchers understand the basics of
exploding stars, but «we're still unsure
about the details,» says astrophysicist Roger Chevalier of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who wrote an editorial accompanying the Nature report.
Rather, they believe that it likely formed
about 20,000 years before the
star exploded.
And then I also thought
about the fact that over the history of the life of the universe, neutrinos are not just produced by the sun, but when
stars explode in a supernova, the most brilliant fireworks in the universe, as brilliant as those fireworks are, less than 1 percent of the energy of the
star is coming out in light; 99 percent is coming out as neutrinos and so neutrinos are being, [and] every time [a
star explodes there's] an incredible burst of neutrinos.
Measurements based on
exploding stars suggest that distant galaxies are speeding away from each other at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (
about 3.3 million light - years) of space between them.
Three years ago, observations of distant,
exploding stars blew to smithereens some of astronomers» most cherished ideas
about the universe.
That is in part because
stars did not form at high rates in the very early universe, before a redshift of
about 5, and so they did not
explode often as GRBs.
When the
star exploded within this shell
about two months later, the initial explosion would have been invisible to us.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled — in stunning detail — a small section of the expanding remains of a massive
star that
exploded about 8,000 years ago.
u «Three years ago, observations of distant,
exploding stars blew to smithereens some of astronomers» most cherished ideas
about the universe [the big bang theory].
About 11,000 years ago a
star in the constellation of Vela
exploded.
About two months later, the
star actually
exploded, blowing chunks of debris into the cloud of gas, which caused a giant shockwave that produced the light of the supernova.
That suggests this particular
star somehow survived the suicidal kaboom of a supernova, waited around 50 years, and
exploded again, blowing up astronomers» ideas
about stellar evolution in the process.
Black Mass has a more
star - studded cast and the DP is honestly
about to
explode this year.
In February, Doctor Strange
star Benedict Cumberbatch teased that the mutliverse is
about to get even bigger: «What we've seen happen within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is this ever - expanding coterie of superheroes, and I think now we're at the stage where this universe, even within our world, has gotten quite crowded and it's just
about to
explode into other dimensions.»
Benedict Cumberbatch has teased the Marvel Cinematic Universe is «
about to
explode» into other dimensions.The 41 - year - old actor has
starred as the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical threats, Doctor Stephen Strange, in the...
Three years after the film
exploded on contact, Chicago movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert used it on their popular TV show as Exhibit A for a serious discussion
about why movies
starring Black actors were mostly failing to find favour in white America.
A faithful adaption of Marvel's comic book property in spirit if not in tone (we'll get to that in a bit), first - time feature director Tim Miller and producer /
star Ryan Reynolds's long - in - gestation love - child is a unique, welcome entry into a genre
about to
explode in what some would argue is over-population.
Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico), who's
about to have her world
explode as a new addition to this huge franchise, talked
about how fearless Fisher needed to be to handle the fame thrust upon her by something like
Star Wars.
What's not to love
about an
exploding throwing
star?
This modern take on the long tradition of memento mori art was inspired by a blood - red picture from the Hubble telescope showing a
star that was
about to
explode.
These animations illustrate the physical process which the theory
about the cosmic connection to Earth's climate proposes: 1) A giant
star explodes in a supernova explosion and emits cosmic rays, 2) cosmic rays enter Earth's atmosphere, 3) rays release free electrons which act a catalysts for the building blocks for cloud condensation nuclei, 4) on which water vapour condenses into clouds.