Sentences with phrase «dying as supernovas»

Both would have been born from massive stars that evolved in close proximity in ancient star factories as a binary pair, eventually dying as supernovas.

Strangely, though, none of those stars was bigger than about 17 solar masses, even though much more massive stars abound and should also be dying as supernovae.

Not exact matches

After shining for many millions of years, stars end their lives, mainly, in two ways: very high mass stars die very violently as supernovae, while low mass stars end as planetary nebulae.

During this period, six normal supernovae have occurred within the galaxies we've been monitoring, suggesting that 10 to 30 percent of massive stars die as failed supernovae,» he said.

The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas exploding in rapid succession as each generation of giant stars dies out.

When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova, which includes a short burst of visible light, as in this illustration.

Last April astronomical detectives announced a break: An orbiting X-ray observatory picked up the chemical fingerprints of several elements in a burst's afterglow, identifying the object as an unusual type of supernova — the detonation of a massive, dying star.

It's not clear why, although one possibility is that the star is on its way to dying a spectacular death as an exploding supernova.

Some of these early stars were huge, a hundred times as massive as the sun, and lived short, spectacular lives, dying in gigantic explosions known as supernovae.

Also, he points out, if there is a huge population of stars outside galaxies, we should see a noticeable number of supernovas occurring out in the middle of nowhere as those rogues stars die.

Type Ia supernovas are known to form when a white dwarf merges with another star, like a puffed - up red giant (as opposed to Type II supernovas, which form when a single star dies and collapses on itself).

Some time in the next several billion years a similar event will rip apart N55, redistributing cosmic gas and dust as the nebula's constituent stars die in spectacular supernovae.

When massive stars die, they create explosions known as supernovas.

The violent outflowing winds as seen in Eta Carinae herald the end of a star's life as a supernova, and their study provides scientists with clues about how such stars evolve and die.

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

But I believe that around the mid-1980s, when corporations began to become more powerful that some nation states, that the battle for critical democratic citizenship became just a smokescreen for the production of consumer citizenship and critical pedagogy as it was then conceived became more like a dying star about to go into a supernova stage and incinerate any hope we had for real educational transformation, locked as we were within a neoliberal state that was quickly consolidating itself (and that a few decades later would have transformed itself into a security state akin to fascism).