Sentences with phrase «known as a white dwarf»

The explosion was a Type Ia supernova, the most luminous variety, which occurred when a small, dense star known as a white dwarf blew up about 7000 light - years from Earth.

A type Ia supernova arises from the explosion of an ultradense stellar remnant known as a white dwarf, but it is less than clear how the white dwarf comes to ignite in a thermonuclear blast.

These eventually disperse and leave behind hot, compact objects known as white dwarfs.

The stellar corpses — highly dense objects known as white dwarfs — were spotted inside a dense cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula.

When that happens, it will be known as a white dwarf, and will remain so for the billions of years it takes to cool down... twinkling in the night sky, hopefully for beings on the other side of the galaxy to admire and make a nightly wish upon.

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The GOP will soon be known as the Party of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs with Sarah «Snow White» Palin leading such GOP Dwarfs as Huckabee, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Thune, DeMint, Romney and Ron Paul.

The study, «Accretion - induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes», which is published in the journal Science Advances, shows how the «flickering» in the visible brightness of young stellar objects (YSOs)-- very young stars in the final stages of formation — is similar to the flickering seen from black holes or white dwarfs as they violently pull matter from their surroundings in a process known as accretion.

The event was what's known as a classical nova explosion, which occurs when a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf steals enough material from an ordinary companion star for its gas to spontaneously ignite.

Known as 2014J, this was a Type la supernova caused by the explosion of a white dwarf star, the inner core of star once it has run out of nuclear fuel and ejected its outer layers.

In observations obtained at the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands, the University of Warwick astronomers detected a large quantity of hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf (known as SDSS J1242 +5226).

PSR J1713 +0747, as it is known, has a tiny white dwarf companion star, and the two orbit each other exceptionally predictably.

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).

In any case, LP40 - 365 is the first known white dwarf to have survived a (failed) Type Ia supernova, and as such it opens up some exciting prospects for future science.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

Sure, the Brothers Grimm fairy tale existed long before Walt Disney made the classic animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but this movie only exists as a crass way for Hollywood to make money by updating a known story into a generic medieval setting with tons of meaningless action.

There are three primary types of dwarf hamsters: Russian Campbells Dwarf Hamsters, Russian Winter White Hamsters (also known as Djungarian or Siberian Hamsters), and Roborovski Dwarf Hamsdwarf hamsters: Russian Campbells Dwarf Hamsters, Russian Winter White Hamsters (also known as Djungarian or Siberian Hamsters), and Roborovski Dwarf HamsDwarf Hamsters, Russian Winter White Hamsters (also known as Djungarian or Siberian Hamsters), and Roborovski Dwarf HamsDwarf Hamsters.

We have a baby winter white dwarf hamster we got it's as a early b day prensent for are daughter she has always wanted one and she got surgery on her ear she was a trooper she went through the pain and stuck with it's we name it corn flake but they said we aren't Gianna be able to know which gender it's is until it's older a gain it just a Wittle baby - we love u corn flake

Campbell's & Winter White dwarf hamsters are also known as Russian dwarf hamsters.

Winter Whites, also know as Russian Winter White Dwarf Hamsters or Siberian Dwarf Hamsters, come from multiple areas of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Sibera (According to Wikipedia)

Winter white dwarf hamsters, also known as the Djungarian hamster, winter white hamster or Siberian hamster, are 3 to 4 inches long in adulthood.

The Roborovski, Campbell's and Winter White are known as Russian dwarf hamsters.