Sentences with phrase «breakout in a supernova»
«Amateur astronomer captures rare first light from massive exploding star: First observation of optical light from shock breakout in a supernova explosion.»
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Both shock breakout and «plateau» phases are shorter, bluer, and fainter for metal - poor supernova in comparison with «metal - rich» supernova.
Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a massive star's collapse ricochets back from the star's core and pushes stellar material outward.
These supernovae have a characteristic shockwave called the «shock breakout,» which was captured for the first time in optical light by Kepler.