Sentences with phrase «massive dying star»

This planetary nebula, located roughly 5,000 light - years away in the Vela constellation, is host to a hot, massive dying star that is rapidly disintegrating, losing its mass.

But until now, they had never gotten a good look at that dusty residue in the vicinity of a massive dying star.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

Not exact matches

«That would mean that this is a really rare system at an early stage of formation,» said Binder, «and we could learn a lot about how massive stars form and die by continuing to study this unique pairing.»

Mysteriously, most of these black holes are inconveniently sized, appearing too large to have readily formed directly from dying massive stars.

During this period, six normal supernovae have occurred within the galaxies we've been monitoring, suggesting that 10 to 30 percent of massive stars die as failed supernovae,» he said.

Strangely, though, none of those stars was bigger than about 17 solar masses, even though much more massive stars abound and should also be dying as supernovae.

The fiery engine inside those stars, as well as the violent explosion of the very massive ones that died, fused atoms together to create heavier atoms.

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

Last April astronomical detectives announced a break: An orbiting X-ray observatory picked up the chemical fingerprints of several elements in a burst's afterglow, identifying the object as an unusual type of supernova — the detonation of a massive, dying star.

Westerlund 1 is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in the Milky Way live and die.

Instantly they started a global monitoring program, watching for every clue about how massive stars die.

But the more massive stars evolve faster than lighter ones do, and so they die sooner.

Other elements are produced in different ways, including in exploding massive stars and dying low mass stars.

They orbit a pulsar — a tiny, rapidly rotating neutron star left after a massive star dies and collapses.

Other Sloan researchers have identified a new class of white dwarfs, the cores left over after sun - size stars die, and have sighted elusive brown dwarfs, objects too big to be planets but not quite massive enough to ignite fusion reactions and become stars.

The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short - lived, massive stars.

Elements lighter than iron are built up in the cores of massive stars and released when they die.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.

Massive stars can also cause havoc within a cloud when they die.

The darkened corpse of a former sun from which not even light can escape, a black hole forms when a massive, dying star crumples under its own gravity.

It turns out it was a sort of cosmic death ray - when a massive star in the distant universe died, it shot out a high - speed jet of particles straight at Earth.

New information gleaned from gravitational wave observations is helping scientists understand what happens when massive stars die and transform into black holes.

These bursts, which have been detected in large numbers by NASA's Swift telescope, are fleeting explosions thought to be caused when massive stars die or when neutron stars merge.

Pulsars are the incredibly dense remains of massive stars that have died in catastrophic supernova explosions.

Some of these early stars were huge, a hundred times as massive as the sun, and lived short, spectacular lives, dying in gigantic explosions known as supernovae.

That points to neutron stars — which form when short - lived massive stars in stellar nurseries die — as the source of fast radio bursts.

All Milky Way globular clusters formed long ago, so their short - lived massive stars have died and become black holes.

Writing in the Sept. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, Burrows — along with first author Jason Nordhaus, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton, and Ann Almgren and John Bell from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California — reports that the Princeton team has developed simulations that are beginning to match the massive blow - outs astronomers have witnessed when gigantic stars die.

For scientists, supernovae are true superstars — massive explosions of huge, dying stars that shine light on the shape and fate of the universe.

Massive stars that end with a burst rarely die alone: usually, they're near or inside a galaxy.

In the normal course of events, a galaxy dies — or becomes quiescent — when its massive reservoir of gas and dust is used up during the formation of stars.

A pulsar is formed when a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel and dies in a cataclysmic explosion called a supernova.

When massive stars die, they create explosions known as supernovas.

Dr. Abel takes us on an illustrated journey through the early stages of the universe, using the latest computer animations of how the first (massive) stars formed and died, and how stars built up the first galaxies.

The most massive of these dying stars leave behind a remnant known as a black hole.

Both would have been born from massive stars that evolved in close proximity in ancient star factories as a binary pair, eventually dying as supernovas.

These can not, in theory, have formed from the collapse of massive stars because the timescales don't match — there would not have been enough time for a start to be born, live and die for it to exist.

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