Sentences with phrase «bright exploding stars»

Extremely bright exploding stars, called superluminous supernovae, and long gamma ray bursts also occur in this type of galaxy, he noted, and both are hypothesized to be associated with massive, highly magnetic and rapidly rotating neutron stars called magnetars.

There were some very early papers in the 1930s that proposed using supernovas — really, really bright exploding stars — to measure the universe's expansion because it appeared there was consistency in how bright they got.

Not exact matches

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

A bright, shining, maybe exploded star that shared the light.

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

The quick transformations, they say, are probably driven by a pulsar — the rapidly spinning core of an exploded star — visible as the leftmost of the two bright dots in this image.

Supernovae are exploding stars that are so bright they can briefly outshine their host galaxies.

The researchers looked at an unusually bright, uniform type of exploding star, called a Type Ia supernova.

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.

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 phenomenon starts when a star explodes with a bright flash, caused by a shock wave emerging from the surface of the progenitor stars after the core collapse phase.

They could have emerged from gamma - ray bursts, mysterious and short - lived cataclysms that briefly rank as the brightest objects in the universe; shock waves from exploding stars; or so - called blazars, jets of energy powered by supermassive black holes.

A lot of the techniques he used to detect the transient bright spots produced when massive stars explode could theoretically also be used to spot the cosmic show produced by two colliding neutron stars, he knew.

The theory goes that before exploding, the progenitor star has its hydrogen outer coat stolen by a companion star in orbit around it, but astronomers have never before been able to spot the thieving companion because the supernova is so bright.

Supernovae are formed when a star explodes, producing an incredibly bright light.

Why, after millions of years of steadily lighting the cold darkness, does a supergiant star suddenly explode in a blinding blaze of glory brighter than 100 billion stars?

When a star explodes into a supernova, it emits a flash of light that can appear brighter than a galaxy.

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