Sentences with phrase «like supernovae»

But as a telescope that stares at single patches of space for long periods of time, it can capture a vast trove of other cosmic treasures — especially the kind that change rapidly or pop in and out of view, like supernovae.

The California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed and operate the NSF - funded LIGO that is aimed to see and record gravitational waves for the first time, allowing us to learn more about phenomena like supernovae and colliding black holes that generate the waves.

These studies could research events like supernovae in incredible detail.

Dr David Sloan, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: «A lot of previous work has focused on «doomsday» scenarios on Earth — astrophysical events like supernovae that could wipe out the human race.

An alert system to notify astronomers about Gaia discoveries of transient events like supernovae (exploding stars) is already in operation.

At this stage some stars become luminous blue variables, so called because they go through episodic changes in brightness, including brilliant outbursts that look a lot like supernovae.

Exploding into life like a supernova's light, Set your holy church on fire!

While your toddler may seem like a supernova of unfocused movement, children generally develop physical skills in a predictable sequence, says Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.

«The popular sources that people predict are like supernova [e], neutrinos, active galaxies, gamma - ray bursts,» Halzen says.

In each and every photo, the white & light are so high that it looks like a supernova (or maybe Jesus) is outside every window.Its actually a little blinding.

It will allow us to take more risk in an area like Supernova, because we've included some fixed income.

Make use of new power - ups like the Supernova Tile, as well as old favorites like Gem Tiles and Freeze Tiles.

They sure liked supernovae.

Where the game shines like a supernova is in the presentation — there has never been a Star Wars game that nails both the look and the sound of the movies in quite the same way that Battlefront does.

So it ends up as an ever - expanding shell, like a supernova remnant.

But over the four years I've been doing this, the blogosphere that we set out to cover has exploded like a supernova.

Although the Plum Book 2016 is an excellent way to find that a federal position suited to your skills, experience and knowledge, the ultimate challenge in landing that dream job using the Plum Book is figuring out how to create a resume that stands out like a supernova above hundreds of other resumes.

Although the Plum Book 2016 is an excellent way to find that government job suited to your skills, experience and knowledge, the ultimate challenge in landing that dream job using the Plum Book is figuring out how to create a resume that stands out like a supernova above hundreds of other resumes.

In each and every photo, the white & light are so high that it looks like a supernova (or maybe Jesus) is outside every window.Its actually a little blinding.

Not exact matches

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No supernovae, no heavier elements like carbon.

Cause really accretion and a nearby second generation star going supernova disturbing a dust cloud thus explaining our high abundance of higher elements seems like a very excellent explanation.

Illini fans have responded to the team's stunning success — a Champaign supernova, as it were — by comporting themselves with enough passion to make Duke's Cameron Crazies look like Benedictine monks.

However, by carefully studying relatively young supernova remnants like Cas A, astronomers can investigate various key processes that drive these titanic stellar explosions.

So while the Tycho supernova remnant may look like some sort of blastocyte, it's really a blast site.

The morning in question, Schmidt received a graph from Riess, mapping the latest estimates for supernovae distances — but they were nothing like he expected.

At first, astronomers suspected that 1987A was a class of supernova known as type 1a — the detonation of a stellar core left behind after a star like the sun quietly sheds gas at the end of its life.

«It looked nothing like known supernovae, which this object could have been, and so confidence was soon very high that this was the real deal.»

This supernova remnant, named RCW103, and the intriguing object at its center, can be detected with an X-ray telescope like the one on Swift but is invisible at wavelengths that human eyes can see.

Q: Supernovas produce most of the heavy elements, but what about non-element molecules, like water and ammonia and many others we find naturally on Earth?

«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.

«One may wonder whether the current state of the art in cosmology... resembles the discovery of Neptune, or whether the recalcitrant evidence coming from supernova 1a may not be better explained by a modification of the accepted paradigm (like in the case of the perihelion of Mercury, which ushered in general relativity),» they write.

GHOST IN THE SHELL What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist's illustration, might be the result of a single star exploding at least three times, blowing off expanding shells of gas each time.

Cassiopeia A Just before it explodes as a supernova, a massive star is like an onion, with layers of different chemical compositions atop one another.

When iPTF14hls was discovered in September 2014 by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, which scans the sky regularly with a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, it looked like an ordinary type 2 supernova in a galaxy about 500 million light - years away.

«It's the weirdest supernova we've ever seen... It's like the star that keeps on dying.»

Instead of waiting around like a nervous dad in the delivery room, Rest found a way to zoom in on a few of our galaxy's past supernovas.

Studying first generation supernovae provides a glimpse into what the Universe looked like when the first stars, galaxies, and supermassive black holes formed, but to date it has been difficult to distinguish a first generation supernova from an ordinary supernova.

What looked like the brightest supernova ever spotted might in fact be the death gasp of a star being swallowed by a black hole

He'd like to see a supernova in the Milky Way during his lifetime.

The star's interior then rebounds like a spherical piston, exploding into a type II supernova.

A supernova shock wave is like a snowplow pushing through the interstellar medium, pushing the more dense gas out, says Gehrels.

We wanted to see, if you took a realistic cloud of cold gas and hit it with a hot, fast - flowing, supernova - driven outflow, if you could accelerate that cold material to velocities like what are observed,» Robertson said.

It seemed unrelated to any recognizable cosmic feature, like giant interstellar clouds, star - forming regions, or supernova remnants.

Recently, astronomers have discovered a related form of supernova, called Type Iax, which look like Type Ia, but are much fainter.

The aim is to understand how a collapsing star can, in a single second, ignite into a supernova and explode like a trillion trillion trillion gallons of jet fuel.

Moreover, based on the known supernova rate in groups like Scorpius - Centaurus, co-author Jesús Maíz - Apellániz of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore has calculated that some 20 explosions must have taken place there in the past 11 million years.

Depending on what the bursts» waveforms look like, how loud the bursts are, how frequent they are and how they correlate with the supernovae as seen with electromagnetic telescopes, the data could help to validate or discard various, existing models.

We now aptly call them «gamma ray bursts,» and they originate from supernovae and from the collisions of superdense objects like neutron stars.

The mushroom - like bubbles are characteristic of «boiling» neutrino - heated gas, whereas simultaneously the «SASI» instability causes wild sloshing and rotational motions of the whole neutrino - heated layer (red) and of the enveloping supernova shock (blue).