Sentences with phrase «light as a supernova»

Though the star released as much visible light as a supernova explosion, it survived the outburst.

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Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

SHINE BRIGHT Supernova 1987A shone as a brilliant point of light near the Tarantula Nebula (pink cloud) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as pictured from an observatory in Chile.

A ring of hot spots (in images from the Hubble Space Telescope) gradually lit up as a shock wave from supernova 1987A plowed through a loop of gas that had been expelled by the star tens of thousands of years before the explosion.

The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

Given the redshift of the light from this stellar explosion — which occurred about 10 billion years ago, when the universe was one third its current size — the object appeared much brighter than it would have been if [dust filling intergalactic space simply made the supernovae appear dim, as some researchers had proposed].

And just as stars, supernova explosions, and the Big Bang's fading glow all give off different frequencies of light, they also send out different frequencies of gravitational waves.

FLASH OF LIGHT Type 1a supernovas, such as the one seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, can be triggered in at least two different ways, new research shows.

Four images of the same supernova flashed in the constellation Leo as its light bent around a galaxy sitting about 6 billion light - years away between Hubble and the exploding star, researchers report in the March 6 Science.

When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova, which includes a short burst of visible light, as in this illustration.

Observations of type 1a supernovas imply a faster expansion rate (known as the Hubble constant) than studies of the cosmic microwave background — light that originated early in cosmic history (SN: 8/6/2016, p. 10).

As part of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, he leads one of the world's few groups looking for the reverberations of ancient supernovas — those whose light hit Earth thousands of years ago.

Its huge 15 - ton mirror excels at light - sensitive work, such as tracking distant supernovas to determine how the universe's expansion is changing over time.

The groups used different statistical approaches to subtract out the gamma - ray emission from normal astrophysical sources such as pulsars and supernovae to hunt for a dark matter signal, and each arrived at the same conclusion — that any gamma - ray light coming from dark matter must be generated by a relatively heavy particle.

The spectacle, 169,000 light - years away in a galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, may shed light on the nature of the original explosion, a supernova known as 1987A, as well as on its surroundings.

In addition, ultraviolet light from newborn massive stars as well as gas heating and ram pressure from supernova explosions blows much of a galaxy's gas away into intergalactic space.

These physicists say that if neutrinos were really as fast as the Gran Sasso data indicate, the neutrinos from the supernova, 168,000 light - years away, should have arrived on Earth some years before the photons from the supernova.

In one early meeting, astronomy writer Christopher Crockett lit up as he told the story of the night supernova 1987A was discovered.

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.

What's more, during the supernova explosion, 99 percent of the precursor stars» gravitational binding energy goes into neutrinos of all flavors while barely half a percent appears as a visible light.

In this galaxy — NGC 6946, a spiral some 17 million light - years away — supernovas are fairly common: astronomers have observed six there over the past 80 years, but none as odd as the one shown in the upper photo.

And then I also thought about the fact that over the history of the life of the universe, neutrinos are not just produced by the sun, but when stars explode in a supernova, the most brilliant fireworks in the universe, as brilliant as those fireworks are, less than 1 percent of the energy of the star is coming out in light; 99 percent is coming out as neutrinos and so neutrinos are being, [and] every time [a star explodes there's] an incredible burst of neutrinos.

Earlier this year, astronomers in London detected a spectacular, once - in - a-century supernova (dubbed SN2014J) in a relatively nearby galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light - years away.

Some hesitation was appropriate: As with any new discovery, researchers needed time to digest and confirm the 1998 finding of dark energy, made by analyzing the light coming from distant supernovae.

Caption: The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

Remarkably, these supernovae were spotted as close as 600 light years from the bright nuclear regions of these galaxies — despite being at least 150 million light years from the Earth.

At his proposed distance, the 1181 explosion was roughly a fifth as luminous as the 1987 supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy, that also emitted less light than the norm.

The Crab Nebula, one of the most famous nebulae and seen here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is actually the expanding explosion of a core collapse supernova, the light of which was bright enough to be seen here on Earth in the year 1054 CE, as documented by Chinese astronomers at the time.

While gamma rays arrive first in the Solar System and overshine lower energy emissions, x-rays, visible and infrared light, and radio waves associated with the supernova are eventually perceived as well (more images).

A long - standing goal of the LIGO project has been the development of multi-messenger astronomy — the near - simultaneous observation of cataclysmic events such as neutron star mergers or supernova explosions in both gravitational waves and light, providing details about the astrophysics of these phenomena that can't be revealed through either alone.

The faster the supernova was moving away, the more its light waves were «stretched» as they traveled toward Earth.

The pulsar, a type of neutron star, is known as IGR J11014 - 6103, and is located about 60 light years away from the center of the supernova remnant, SNR MSH 11 - 61A, in the constellation of Carina in the southern sky.

When Eta Carinae explodes as a supernova or hypernova, it is possible that the event might affect Earth, since the star is only 7,500 light years away.

As if this existence wasn't miserable enough, now the Dead Star has begun collapsing upon itself, threatening to go supernova and annihilate every living thing within a dozen light - years.

Proton or other parts of matter traveling near light speed may associated with gamma ray as both are related to supernovas - and not associated with your Sun.