Sentences with phrase «fusion in the supernova»

The team, from Australia and the US, calculated the star's mass from the abundance of the cobalt isotopes created by nuclear fusion in the supernova.

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These conditions have never been created in a laboratory environment and exist naturally only during thermonuclear burn, in supernovae and in the fusion reactions that power our stars.
Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.
Nuclear fusion of heavy elements (absorbing energy) occurs in the extremely high - energy conditions of supernova explosions.
Nuclear fusion in stars and supernovae is the primary process by which new natural elements are created.
They are abundantly produced in supernova explosions, star - powering nuclear fusion and other nuclear processes, resulting in trillions of neutrinos passing through us every minute.
[3] Type Ia Supernovae occur when an accreting white dwarf in a binary star system slowly gains mass from its companion until it reaches a limit that triggers the nuclear fusion of carbon.
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.»
Using Keck, we have traced atoms as they flow from the intergalactic medium into galaxies, where they are incorporated into stars, undergo fusion, and are returned in supernovae and other types of stellar death.
supernova type 2 (plural: supernovae or supernovas) A condition that occurs when nuclear fusion can no longer continue in the core of a massive star.
by fusion in a random number of supernova's, then randomly blowing them into space until 10 ^ 50 of them «just happen» to all collect into the right part of the earth's orbit at exactly the right time and the right velocity so they accumulate together?
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