Sentences with phrase «expanding debris cloud»

This story is still just hypothetical, but astrophysicists point to a piece of supporting evidence: The FRBs are coming from the same vicinity as a steady source of radio emission — possibly the background signal from the expanding debris cloud that surrounds the young magnetar.

Not exact matches

Astronomers have known since 1968 that a pulsar — an ultradense neutron star left behind when the star's core collapsed — spins 30 times per second within the Crab's expanding cloud of debris, emitting a lighthouse beam of radio waves.

This magnetar also remains embedded in an expanding cloud of debris from a supernova explosion.

Whatever the real reason for the dramatic missile shot, the good news, I guess, is that the Pentagon didn't destroy the satellite in high orbit, as China did with another such move last year, generating an expanding cloud of orbiting debris — the one kind of pollution that, in space, may someday greatly limit the ability to deploy more satellites, for good or ill.