Sentences with phrase «death of a star when»

The blast, called a gamma ray burst (GRB), probably arose from the explosive death of a star when the universe was just 900 million years old.

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A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

Best known for The Star of Redemption, published eight years before his death in 1929 at the age of forty - three, he began a new kind of dialogue between Judaism and Christianity when he argued that....

Thorne says that we dwell in «one of those dark ages that visit mankind between millennia, between the death and rebirth of gods, when there is nothing to steer by but sex and stoicism and the stars.»

Two of the central events in McLain's life — his father's death and his mother's remarriage — took place when he was a pitching star for Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, and they left him with an emptiness and anger that he carries with him today.

UTICA, N.Y. (AP)-- The family of a race car driver fatally injured when struck by Tony Stewart's sprint car has apparently reached a settlement in its wrongful death lawsuit against the former NASCAR star.

Since these elements, produced mainly in the explosive death of large stars, are crucial to life, pinning down their emergence would help determine when the earliest possible life - supporting planets might have appeared and give us a clue as to the likelihood of life's existing elsewhere.

It turns out it was a sort of cosmic death ray - when a massive star in the distant universe died, it shot out a high - speed jet of particles straight at Earth.

When the supernova remnant RCW 103 was first observed 25 years ago, it seemed to be a textbook example of a massive star's death: a gaseous cloud of ejected material surrounding a neutron star only about 12 miles across.

originate from fusion reactions in the heart of stars and are spewed out when those stars explode as supernovae, the relatively high metallicity of the galaxy suggests that it had already seen the birth and death of generations of stars by the time the universe was 700 million years old.»

«Strangulation occurs when the gas is consumed to make stars faster than it's being replenished, so the galaxy starves to death,» Toby Brown, a PhD candidate at ICRAR and Swinburne University of Technology and lead author of a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, explained in a statement.

When astronomers study the Milky Way, they can learn about the birth, life and death of its stars because they see the stars at various evolutionary stages.

(Inside Science)-- When the astronomers first saw the supernova in 2014, it looked like a standard explosion that often signifies the death of a massive star.

They can be forged when star at least five times the mass of our Sun dies a spectacular death in a supernova explosion.

Though when he originally concieved an adaptation of the timeless tale of Pinocchio Benigni envisioned the film as starring himself with famed director Federico Fellini at the helm, the director's death left Benigni the director of what would be one of the most expensive films in Italian film history.

A Lover's Discourse was published in 1977, three years before Barthes's death and eleven years before Denis made her first feature, and he was certainly a known quantity among the Parisian cinephile generation of the 1970s, when Denis was coming of age — for example, before starring in Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973), Françoise Lebrun was a contributor to his journal Communications, and several critics, including Alain Philippon, have speculated as to Barthes's influence on the lovers» dialogues in Eustache's movie.

As an act of conscience, Empire scientist Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelson) designed the Death Star with that fatal flaw that is exposed when viewing the original blueprints.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler star in this emotionally overwhelming and critically acclaimed drama from writer - director Kenneth Lonergan (YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, MARGARET), about a reclusive handyman who must face his painful past when he returns to his Massachusetts hometown after the sudden death of his beloved older brother.

When the alien invaders are first detected by Earth's scientists, it's easy to miss the computer monitor showing a model of the «Deep Space Satellite Satellite Devlin» - named for the movie's co-writer and producer, Dean Devlin - and resembling a scaled - down version of the Death Star superweapon.

When the death of a porn star named Misty Mountains — seen in the film's gloriously funny opening sequence set to the beat of the Temptations» «Papa was a Rollin» Stone» — unites the widowed March and divorced Healy in search of another adult entertainer, the missing Amelia, the duo enter a sprawling maze of shady power structures and dead stakeholders.

Starring a startlingly pre-True Blood Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men), the film explores the moral dilemma of a teenage girl named Margaret who is complicit in the death of a pedestrian when a bus runs a red light.

Up until now, the only weekend in which a film with a white male lead actor had won the box office came when «Maze Runner: The Death Cure,» starring Dylan O'Brien, knocked «Jumanji» off the top spot at the North American box office on the weekend of Jan. 26.

The film is titled God's Pocket, based on the Peter Dexter novel, and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Mickey, a guy who gets in over his head when he tries to cover - up the accidental death of his stepson, Leon.

Season of the Witch Starring Nicholas Cage, Ron Perlman and Claire Foy Directed by Dominic Sena (Whiteout) Rated PG - 13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content Appropriate for ages 15 + When two 14th - century knights (Cage and Perlman) find themselves in a town hit by a horrible plague, they are charged with transporting a supposed witch (Foy) to stand trial at a nearby monastery in the hopes that the plague will end with her death sentence.

Terence Stamp (at his somber best) stars as an aging, wrathful and freshly - paroled Welsh tough who has come to L.A. to avenge the death of his daughter — a street - smart aspiring actress he's positive was murdered when she perished in a fiery car crash while he was in prison in Britain.

Death Wish This is a credible remake of the famous Charles Bronson thriller, taking into account the differences between today and 1974, and starring Bruce Willis as the mild - mannered, upper - middle - class man who becomes a vigilante when his wife and daughters become victims of violent crime.

When word comes that one of the Empire's pilots has defected and is telling stories about the Death Star, the duo put together a small group of like - minded people to assist in stealing the battle station's plans.

The series, from executive producer David E. Kelley, stars Billy Bob Thornton as Billy McBride, a washed - up lawyer whose professional life is turned upside down when a young lawyer who has just been fired from his old firm brings him a wrongful death case that pits him against the head of his former firm.

We saw a trailer earlier this month [watch it here], and now two posters have been released for Hungry Hearts, the upcoming romantic drama starring Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher... The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death -LSB-...]

Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were two of Hip Hops brightest stars when their untimely deaths elevated them and their music to legendary status...

A Single Man Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: An official selection of the Toronto, Tokyo and London film festivals, former fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, about a homosexual English professor contemplating suicide after the death of his lover, gives Colin Firth (BBC's Pride and Prejudice) what he has long deserved: a richly conceived starring role worthy of his talents.

The Death of Our Sun: A Space Science Lesson Students learn about the life cycle of stars and consider what will happen several billion years from now, when Earth's sun dies.

Middle - aged death - metal rock star Jude Coyne doesn't know what he's in for when he buys a Floridian ghost from an online auction site to add to his collection of ghoulish curiosities, which includes a 16th - century skull and a snuff film that effectively ended his marriage.

We can only hope that the moral ramifications of destroying the Death Star will be among many interesting topics of discussion when that time comes.

When she witnesses the destruction of the second Death Star she vows revenge for the empire.

Whether you're fighting through the glossy corridors and hangars of Death Star II or unleashing the Force as Rey in the bowels of a crashed Star Destroyer on Jakku, you're constantly drinking in how gorgeous BF2 looks even when running on a vanilla PS4 or Xbox One.

Lego Star Wars is just like playing with Legos when you were a kid but instead of having to pay $ 100 bucks for that damn Death Star you get it for free.

When the combat power of the Death Star deteriorated due to the old dust accumulated inside the station, Darth Vader ordered Samsung Electronics to build a strong robot vacuum cleaner.

Estate planning is often less than perfect, and poor planning is not limited to celebs; it crosses all of the socio - economic boundaries, but when an affluent star forgets to draft a will, the result is a legal and emotional tsunami that continues long after their death.