Sentences with phrase «bright as a supernova»

It's 1,000 times brighter than a nova (when a white dwarf erupts) but not as bright as a supernova.

The future of science writing is as bright as a supernova!

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Eta Carinae is sometimes called a «supernova impostor» because its eruptions are so violent they can be nearly as bright as exploding stars.

SHINE BRIGHT Supernova 1987A shone as a brilliant point of light near the Tarantula Nebula (pink cloud) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as pictured from an observatory in Chile.

The star, which was 25 times as massive as our sun, should have exploded in a very bright supernova.

Given the redshift of the light from this stellar explosion — which occurred about 10 billion years ago, when the universe was one third its current size — the object appeared much brighter than it would have been if [dust filling intergalactic space simply made the supernovae appear dim, as some researchers had proposed].

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.

The resulting explosion can be up to a million times as bright as the sun, but unlike supernovas, classical novas don't destroy the star.

Because this class of explosion was distinct from the far more frequent and far less bright stellar outburst known as a nova, they said, it deserved a classification all its own: supernova.

Depending on its chemistry, the star might then explode as an exceptionally bright supernova or collapse into a smaller, faster - spinning millisecond pulsar, an event that has not been witnessed before (arxiv.org/abs/1302.4634).

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.

But some astronomers wonder if distant supernovae appear dimmer than expected because supernovae in the past were not as bright as they are now.

At its brightest, Supernova 1987A glowed as intensely as the stars in the Big Dipper constellation.

But this one, called KSN 2015K, was just about as bright as a regular supernova, so the team thinks it may have started out dim and then received an extra boost.

Type Iax supernovae are fainter than their type Ia relatives, which are so reliably bright that we use them as «standard candles» to estimate cosmic distances.

This is about a hundred times as much energy as that released in the brightest supernova explosion, and is many times more than the amount needed to explain the origin of the bursts of gamma rays.

Remarkably, these supernovae were spotted as close as 600 light years from the bright nuclear regions of these galaxies — despite being at least 150 million light years from the Earth.

Core collapse supernova (CCSN) rates suffer from large uncertainties as many CCSNe exploding in regions of bright background emission and significant dust extinction remain unobserved.

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

The Crab Nebula, one of the most famous nebulae and seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is actually the expanding explosion of a core collapse supernova, the light of which was bright enough to be seen here on Earth in the year 1054 CE, as documented by Chinese astronomers at the time.

As such, this was the first bright supernova to be observed with modern scientific instruments.

Those first stars led hard and fast lives, burning bright and dying quickly as supernovas.

Tycho found it at first as bright as Jupiter, but the supernova soon grew as brilliant as Venus (around -4 magnitude).

In x-ray emission, SN 3006gy was also nearly as bright as the core of host galaxy NGC 1260, but not bright enough for a Type - Ia supernova (more).

On September 18, 2006, astronomer Robert M. Quimby detected the brightest and largest supernova ever recorded by contemporary astronomers, using the ROTSE - IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory (Robert M. Quimby, 2006; and Katie Humphrey, Austin - American Statesman, May 9, 2007)-- but became second brightest on October 10, 2007 after twice - as - bright Supernova 2005ap (see APOD; and Quimby et asupernova ever recorded by contemporary astronomers, using the ROTSE - IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory (Robert M. Quimby, 2006; and Katie Humphrey, Austin - American Statesman, May 9, 2007)-- but became second brightest on October 10, 2007 after twice - as - bright Supernova 2005ap (see APOD; and Quimby et aSupernova 2005ap (see APOD; and Quimby et al, 2007).

The Florida Project loses the jagged iPhone imagery of that big breakthrough, but the colors (and characters) shine just as supernova - bright on 35 mm.