Sentences with phrase «by supernova»

Steering the ship is taken care of by the A.I so up to eight people can attempt to keep it from being destroyed by a supernova, along with other dangers from the final frontier.

It could easily have been caused by a supernova punching through the top and bottom of the galactic disk, the intense stellar winds from 10 or so hot stars, a powerful gamma - ray burst, or even a large star moving through the area.

Strong turbulence caused by supernova explosions inside a dense molecular gas disk in the central region of a galaxy disturbs the stable motion of gas.

For this project, she learned an observing technique that analyzes the different colors of light produced by the supernova remnants.

Astronomers have been trying to measure the huge amounts of dust spewed by a supernova.

It 1054 the night sky was dominated by a supernova that became the Crab Nebula.

They believe the gas may be driven by supernova explosions and the intense stellar winds from an unseen cluster of young stars in one of our Galaxy's spiral arms.

Neutron stars are created by the supernova of a star and because of the regular, circular nature of the system's orbit the team eliminated a second neutron star as the companion star.

The arrow points to an expanding ring of debris expelled by a supernova.

The top candidates, the astronomers suggested, are a neutron star, possibly a highly - magnetic magnetar, surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar, or an active nucleus in the galaxy, with radio emission coming from jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole.

With more than 10 times better resolution, ALMA pinpoints the location of dust and revealed that the dust was generated by the supernova explosion.

However, the spatial resolution of Herschel was not so high (7 - 35 arcsecond) that it was difficult to distinguish whether the dust was generated by the supernova or just located there prior to the explosion.

For example, the energy released by the supernova is more than the theory predicts.

Caption: The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

The team also succeeded in explaining, with a theoretical model, that the actual changes (balance of inflow and outflow) in gas levels they observed were the result of the increasing amount of gas falling into the supermassive black holes within the gas disks enhanced by strong turbulence generated by supernova explosions (an activity associated with star formation) when a star inside the dense gas disks dies.

A conceptual rendition of gas being driven into a supermassive black hole following a supernova explosion Strong turbulence caused by supernova explosions inside a dense molecular gas disk in the central region of a galaxy disturbs the stable motion of gas.

The partial evaporation of the halo prior to the explosion is crucial to its later enrichment by the supernova, he emphasized.

The images, taken last August by NASA's new Chandra X-ray Observatory and published in the 10 January issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, also mark the first time that astronomers have clearly identified freshly formed iron within the hot maelstrom of gas created by a supernova.

«Even if our formation wasn't triggered by a supernova, the presence of decay products of certain radioactive elements points to a supernova perhaps seeding the already formed young solar system with enriched elements.»

That disk then condensed and gave rise to a new family of planets, composed of heavy elements created by the supernova.

Or it may be a more recent creation, having been blasted out of the galactic discs by supernova explosions.

They hunted for runaway stars — objects escaping the cluster at high velocities — that might have been kicked out of orbit by the supernova explosion that formed the magnetar.

While Law has his pet hypothesis about the origin of fast radio bursts — a magnetar surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar — there are other possibilities.

The shock waves created by a supernova explosion, astronomers theorized, could generate enormous magnetic fields capable of accelerating electrons, protons, and other ions to nearly the speed of light.

These metals were spread around the galaxies by supernova explosions.

The Hubble observations were made with Hubble's sharp - eyed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), and were conducted by the Supernova H0 for the Equation of State (SH0ES) team, which works to refine the accuracy of the Hubble constant to a precision that allows for a better understanding of the universe's behavior.

But the image also shows the effects of stellar death — filaments created by a supernova explosion.

But the image also shows the effects of stellar death — filaments created by a supernova explosion (left).

Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.

The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

It doesn't matter today if we cure cancer or if today, we are all killed by a supernova.

This calcium and other heavy elements could have been created in supernova explosions, and then incorporated into new stars, but the clusters as they are today are too small to keep hold of the material violently thrown out by supernovae.

Such ultradense, spinning neutron stars created by supernovas could continue to generate magnetic power that would heat up the expanding gas left over from the supernova.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — When the biggest optical telescope in the eastern U.S. starts scanning the sky early next year, it won't be distracted by supernovas or gamma ray bursts.

If the mission succeeds, astronauts could spend several years potentially being bombarded with cosmic rays — high - energy particles launched across space by supernovae and other galactic explosions.

«The oxygen we breathe, the iron in our blood, the carbon in plants, the silicon in the sand — all the matter that makes up you and the Earth is made and distributed by supernovae,» Janka says.

A galaxy, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to elements heavier than iron, which are released by supernovae.

The vast bubbles, Ferguson says, are gas blown out by supernovas or stellar winds; the jets are being expelled by newly forming giant stars.

To settle the question of whether the heavy elements created by supernovae remain mostly in their home galaxies or are spread out through intergalactic space, the researchers looked through the Perseus cluster in eight different directions.

Some may be accelerated to such high speeds by supernovas, but others have mysterious roots.

Then, last year, after analyzing crust samples collected from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, scientists estimated that our planet had, sometime between 2.6 million and 1.5 million years ago, been buffeted by supernovae shock waves — ones that left their mark not only on Earth's surface but also affected its atmosphere.

Some are found in globular clusters, but most move in a huge cloud around the disk called the galactic halo, which has a luminous inner component defined by globular star clusters and other easily observable stars (with coronae of hot gas possibly expelled by supernovae and of high - velocity neutron stars) and an outer dark - matter component inferred from its gravitational impact on the Milky Way's spiral disk.

Two competing theories did emerge, which are that these elements are produced by supernovae and neutron star mergers.

The «Local Bubble» of low - density, hot and ionized gas, is actually part of a tube - like chimney that extends through the local region of the spiral disk into the surrounding galactic halo, and so may can act as a vent for the energetic hot gas produced by supernovae (more).

Assuming that the Local Bubble or Chimney was created by the supernovae of young, massive stars during the past few million years, some astronomers have been looking for their probable source among the 27 member B stars of the Pleiades moving group, which are located towards the nearest part of Gould's Belt of massive hot, OB - type stars (more discussion in pdf).

We have seen black holes, and we know GCR are accelerated by supernovae.

Not exact matches

A supernova is an astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a massive star's life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion.

As far our atomic composition, we are made up of «stardust» from exploding supernovas (as noted by Lawrence Krauss, an American theoretical physicist, and Robert Kirshner, Harvard College Professor of Astronomy).

The universe itself, as described by science, may be seen as our Mother but it can also be a capricious Tyrant who could destroy all of us in the blink of an eye and with less effort at any moment (supernova, asteroid, etc).

2) The nebula began a contraction that may have been triggered by the shock wave of a nearby supernova.