Sentences with phrase «as a supernova remnant»

The hot gas the star leaves behind is known as a supernova remnant; this one is called Vela.

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But, as what's now called Tycho's supernova remnant demonstrates, something still fuels the radiation fire hundreds of years after its energy should have been drained.

[2] The supernova remnant is SNR G332.4 - 00.4, also known as RCW 103.

For example the filaments to the right of the image are the remnants of an ancient supernova (SNR G332.4 - 00.4, also known as RCW 103), and the glowing red filaments at the lower left surround an unusual and very hot star (RCW 104, surrounding the Wolf - Rayet star WR 75).

As for the fate of these huge stars, he adds, «They could explode as spectacular supernovas and leave no remnants behind.&raquAs for the fate of these huge stars, he adds, «They could explode as spectacular supernovas and leave no remnants behind.&raquas spectacular supernovas and leave no remnants behind.»

Young supernova remnants such as Cassiopeia A are among the most beautiful objects in the X-ray sky.

The highest energy gamma rays originate in the graveyards of big stars, such as the spinning pulsar remnants of supernovae.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

Lead author of the study, Mr M. Mirac Serim, a senior PhD student working under the supervision of Prof Altan Baykal, said, «This pulsar is particularly interesting, since as well as orbiting its partner star as part of a binary pair, it is also still surrounded by the remnants of the supernova explosion which created it.»

Its telescopes installed in Namibia have studied populations of pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, as well as microquasars, never before detected in gamma rays.

It provides an overview of fifteen years of research that has successfully characterized the most abundant types of gamma ray sources, such as pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, and made detailed measurements of individual sources as well as of entire regions of the Milky Way.

The instruments are expected to reveal details about gases trapped in galaxy clusters and wafting through supernova remnants as well as the turbulent streams of material spiraling away from black holes.

The goal is to ultimately clarify whether this conspiracy is the long - searched mechanism that triggers the supernova explosion and thus leaves behind the neutron star as compact remnant.

Soon after, pulsars were identified as rapidly spinning neutron stars, the remnants of supernova explosions; they weigh as much as the sun but are just a dozen miles wide.

This image, taken with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509 - 68.7, also known as N103B (top of the image).

A type Ia supernova arises from the explosion of an ultradense stellar remnant known as a white dwarf, but it is less than clear how the white dwarf comes to ignite in a thermonuclear blast.

A group of astronomers used Hubble to study the remnant of the Type Ia supernova explosion SNR 0509 - 68.7 — also known as N103B (seen at the top).

«We're surprised that Lofar can see as many as 16 bright supernova remnants in M 82.

Pulsars are the spinning remnants of stars that have exploded as supernovae.

Since pulsars are superdense, spinning neutron stars left over when a massive star explodes as a supernova, it was logical to assume that the Monogem Ring, the shell of debris from a supernova explosion, was the remnant of the blast that created the pulsar.

Radiation generated in this way is called synchrotron radiation and is associated with various types of violent cosmic phenomena besides supernova remnants, as, for example, radio galaxies.

Colored according to x-ray energy intensity, this supernova remnant's bluish shockwave bubble is twice as hot as the mottled gaseous debris expanding behind at 10 million degrees Celsius (more at Astronomy Picture of the Day and CXC).

The remnant of the supernova was not found until 1952, with the help of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope (Brown and Hazard, 1953), catalogued as radio source 3C 10.

Aiming the 300 - foot at the supernova remnant known as the Crab Nebula in 1968, astronomers Staelin and Reifenstein discovered that the radio waves coming from the point inside the Nebula was not constant but pulsed.

A massive star (left), which has created elements as heavy as iron in its interior, blows up in a tremendous explosion (middle), scattering its outer layers in a structure called a supernova remnant (right).

The pulsar, a type of neutron star, is known as IGR J11014 - 6103, and is located about 60 light years away from the center of the supernova remnant, SNR MSH 11 - 61A, in the constellation of Carina in the southern sky.

The nebula observed around W26 is very similar to the nebula surrounding SN1987A, the remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova in 1987.

So it ends up as an ever - expanding shell, like a supernova remnant.

Earth's heat source is a variable star, a remnant of the supernova that ejected the material now orbiting the Sun as planets, moons, asteroids and meteors: