Sentences with phrase «explosion of stars»

These observations indicate that type II supernovae — explosions of stars more than ten times as massive as the Sun — produce copious amounts of dust, but how and when they do so is not well understood.

These remnants are left over after a supernova, the titanic explosion of a star many times more massive than our own.

This was the conclusion announced in March by astronomers who studied explosions of stars in distant galaxies.

One, however, contains a unique blend of magnesium, calcium, and titanium that could only have come from the titanic explosion of a star that was perhaps 15 times more massive than our sun.

The effect could be explained by the massive explosion of a star — a supernova!

Another explanation is that cataclysmic explosions of stars, called supernovas, form most europium and other elements heavier than nitrogen.

But in the near future new large telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2018, will be able to detect the first explosions of stars in the Universe, and may be able to identify them using this method.

Bursts probably occur after a hypernova, an extremely rare explosion of a star so massive it can barely support its own bulk.

The supernova, a giant explosion of a star and the closest one to Earth in decades, was discovered earlier this year by chance at the University of London Observatory.

Astrophysicist Hans - Thomas Janka and his team use a bank of supercomputers to create 3 - D models of the heat that builds in a neutrino - driven explosion of a star.

The supernova explosion of this star was witnessed in 1054.

But it soon became clear that 1987A was a type 2 supernova, the explosion of a star many times heavier than the sun.

They were witnessing the explosion of a star, quickly dubbed supernova 1987A.

This simulated image shows the first half - second of an explosion of a star 15 times more massive than the sun.

«The behavior of these bacteria look like the explosion of a star going nova,» said Aranson.

The explosion of a star more than half a billion light years from Earth has provided a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the current expansion rate of the Universe.

Co-author Daniel Kasen from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab created models of the supernova that explained the data as the explosion of a star only a few times the size of the sun and rich in carbon and oxygen.

This bar is funneling raw material toward the heart of the galaxy, where it has prompted an explosion of star formation in the 2,400 light - year wide region encircling the center of the galaxy, known as the circumnuclear starburst ring.

Supernovae, the explosions of stars, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases they marked the death of a star.

Similar automated surveys are used to find planets orbiting other stars or study the explosions of stars which map the expansion of the Universe.

These chemical elements, some of them newly created during the evolution and explosion of the star and now blasted back into space, will eventually be incorporated into new stars and planets.

A supernova is the explosion of a star, and the bigger the star, the bigger the explosion.

Just to give you an example, the explosion of a star with more than eight times the mass of the Sun is thought to produce about a Moon's mass - worth of gold.

Supernovae, the explosions of stars, have recently been confirmed as significant contributors to the cosmic ray bombardment of Earth.

Magnesium has been lauded as a wonder element, and it's easy to see why since the mineral is formed from the explosion of stars.

There's something joyous and endlessly romantic about seeing the flash of a bright light ahead of a boom and an explosion of star - shaped colors in a dark night sky.