Sentences with phrase «explodes as a supernova at»

Stars that are eight or more times the mass of the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives.

Black holes this size are «born» when a heavyweight star — more than ten times the mass of the Sun — explodes as a supernova at the end of its life.

These neighbouring bubbles eventually merged to form a superbubble, and the short life spans of the stars at its heart meant that they exploded as supernovae at similar times, expanding the superbubble even further, to the point that it merged with other superbubbles, which is when the supershell was formed.

Neutron stars are the remains of massive stars that explode as a supernova at the end of their normal lifetime.

Not exact matches

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

They employed a broad spectrum of methods and other measurement data, including Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, which are density waves from the early universe, local measurements of the Hubble constant, which specifies the universe's rate of expansion at the present day, as well as a certain group of supernovae or exploding stars.

That's according to a new analysis — part of the biggest census of star - forming regions to date — that focused on stars eight times the mass of our sun or larger (the size that eventually explode as supernovae) at a very early stage in their lifetime, when they'd still be inside the clouds of gas and dust where they formed.

At the end of its life, a massive star inevitably explodes as a supernova.

Sobral adds: «But star formation at this rate leads to a lot of massive, short - lived stars coming into being, which explode as supernovae a few million years later.

The white dwarf accretes material from the companion star, then at some point, it might explode as a type Ia supernova.

Pulsars are essentially dead stars that at one point exploded as supernovas.

At least one of the astronomers suspects a star in that cluster exploded as a supernova and shot out gas filaments that formed new stars over a large region of space.