Sentences with phrase «massive exploding star»

Astronomer Melina Bersten and her colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata in Argentina soon learned of the serendipitous discovery and realized that Buso had caught a rare event, part of the first hour after light emerges from a massive exploding star.

«Amateur astronomer captures rare first light from massive exploding star: First observation of optical light from shock breakout in a supernova explosion.»

«The evidence is important because it heralds a new form of astronomy using neutrinos, the nearly massless high - energy particles generated in nature's accelerators — black holes, massive exploding stars and the energetic cores of galaxies,» the University of Wisconsin - Madison, whose researchers are part of the IceCube collaboration, said, in a statement released Thursday.

Not exact matches

Such 3 - D reconstructions encode important information for astronomers about how massive stars actually explode.

About 340 years ago a massive star exploded in the constellation Cassiopeia.

When a massive star explodes, the spray of stardust collides with interstellar gas, forming an outgoing shock wave.

«The most massive, hottest stars can form, grow, swell, explode and leave a neutron star emitting X-rays in about 5 million years.»

This allowed the international team to determine that the explosion was a Type IIb supernova: the explosion of a massive star that had previously lost most of its hydrogen envelope, a species of exploding star first observationally identified by Filippenko in 1987.

Other stars are forming around the rim of the bubble, and one of them is already massive enough that its fate is sealed: one day, million of years from now, it will explode.

The most massive stars in the original cluster will have already run through their brief but brilliant lives and exploded as supernovae long ago.

A neutron star is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel, collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova.

The exploding star itself had been very massive, more than 40 times the mass of the Sun.

The object is located in the center of a colorful cloud of material consisting of the remains of an ancient star that exploded as a massive supernova.

The star, which was 25 times as massive as our sun, should have exploded in a very bright supernova.

Long gamma - ray bursts, which flash for up to 100 seconds or longer, are believed to occur when massive stars explode as supernovae.

For example, SN 2017egm might have ejected less mass than its supernova counterparts because its massive star might have shed mass before exploding.

First, a massive star exploded as a supernova, blasting its debris out into space.

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

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the ultradense cores left behind after massive stars explode.

Overall, supernovas are rare, but as the solar system circles through the Milky Way, it sometimes passes through one of our galaxy's spiral arms, where large numbers of massive stars form and explode as supernovas.

Some of the very massive stars that populated the early universe exploded completely, sowing the seeds of future stars, solar systems and galaxies

When a massive star explodes, it can temporarily outshine a galaxy of several hundred billion suns.

A neutron star forms when a massive star explodes as a supernova, blowing off its outer layers while its core collapses.

Extremely bright exploding stars, called superluminous supernovae, and long gamma ray bursts also occur in this type of galaxy, he noted, and both are hypothesized to be associated with massive, highly magnetic and rapidly rotating neutron stars called magnetars.

As this cluster is relatively old, a part of this lost mass will be due to the most massive stars in the cluster having already reached the ends of their lives and exploded as supernovae.

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

Observations suggest «long» bursts, which can last from seconds to a few minutes, are born when massive stars explode and their cores collapse into black holes.

A lot of the techniques he used to detect the transient bright spots produced when massive stars explode could theoretically also be used to spot the cosmic show produced by two colliding neutron stars, he knew.

These rapidly spinning neutron stars (the cores left behind after a massive star explodes) send out steady pulses of radio waves.

Neutron stars are the superdense remains of massive stars that have exploded as supernovas.

And some of these brilliant stars, those born 140 to 300 times as massive as the sun, exploded in a way unseen in the Milky Way today.

A collision could help answer a puzzling question: Why was SN 2006gy shrouded in hydrogen, when massive stars are supposed to lose their hydrogen - rich outer layer before they explode?

When a massive star explodes, it unleashes 1058 neutrinos that are so energetic a few knock a proton or neutron off some of the star's many neon nuclei, producing fluorine.

A massive star creates huge amounts of oxygen and neon during its life and then hurls them into space when it explodes, so both elements are common: Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium, and neon ranks fifth or sixth.

According to the popular «collapsar» theory, a GRB occurs when a very massive star explodes as a supernova and collapses into a black hole.

One possibility, notes astronomer and lead author Patrick Dufour of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is that the stars simply might not have grown massive enough — about 10 times heavier than the sun — to explode but are so close to the limit that they might be harboring abnormally high amounts of carbon.

At the end of its life, a massive star inevitably explodes as a supernova.

Ray Jayawardhana: It is a clue that most likely, these high energy neutrinos come either from jets of particles that are accelerated by super massive black holes at the hearts of galaxies, or from really gigantic stars that explode at the end of their lives that also produce a phenomenon we call gamma ray bursts, which also might accelerate particles to very high speeds and energies.

One star pops off, then another and another, until all the massive stars in the cluster have exploded and stirred up a hornet's nest of cosmic rays.

That would include lower - energy, harder - to - detect antineutrinos created by massive stars that exploded billions of years ago.

Sobral adds: «But star formation at this rate leads to a lot of massive, short - lived stars coming into being, which explode as supernovae a few million years later.

The most famous supernovae are the result of a massive star exploding, but a white dwarf, the remnant of an intermediate mass star like our Sun, can also explode.

It became known as Sagittarius A (abbreviated Sgr A) because it comes from the direction of the eponymous constellation, and astronomers speculated that it was the remains of a massive supernova — an exploded star.

This animation shows a neutron star — the core of a star that exploded in a massive supernova.

Black holes are thought to form when the dense core of a supernova — a massive, exploding star — collapses in on itself.

A heavy star explodes when its massive core collapses to an infinitesimal point: a black hole.

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they disperse the heavier elements they have built into space, where they become the building blocks of the next generation of stars.

«It's important simply to know that very massive stars were exploding at that time,» said Foley, an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

But observations beginning in 2014 from NASA's NuSTAR and other space telescopes are showing that some ULXs, which glow with X-ray light equal in energy to millions of suns, are actually neutron stars — the burnt - out cores of massive stars that exploded.