Sentences with phrase «nearby exploding star»

The fastest - moving star to leave the Milky Way might have been launched by a nearby exploding star.

Norbert Schulz and Nicola Omodei discuss the recent detection of a dying star igniting the most powerful blast ever seen — something so powerful it radiated energy that was 500 million times that of visible light and how scientists have discovered that a familiar sight in the skies is actually our earliest view yet of a star being consumed by the remnant of a nearby exploded star.

Also learn how scientists have discovered that a familiar sight in the skies is actually our earliest view yet of a star being consumed by the remnant of a nearby exploded star.

Not exact matches

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Thanks to new detectors that can pick up neutrino signals and even gravitational waves, scientists will be ready when the next nearby star explodes, Emily Conover reported in «Waiting for a supernova» (SN: 2/18/17, p. 24).

But more mundane explanations are also plausible: Positrons might be spewed from nearby pulsars, the spinning remnants of exploded stars, for example.

Using the nearby Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara have observed something similar: an exploding star slamming into a nearby companion star.

As this Universe Today article explains, eventually something happens — a supernova explodes nearby, for instance, or a passing star exerts its gravity — to change the pressure inside the cloud, causing it to collapse into a disk.

As the white dwarf accretes material from the nearby star, it's possible that could explode as a type la supernova.

The youngest stars in the galactic region surrounding around the Solar Neighborhood are associated with «subgroup B1» of the Pleiades (M 45) stellar moving group, and astronomers hypothesize that the more massive stars born in this group may have already exploded as 20 or so supernovae over the past 10 to 20 million years as the entire group of stars moved through a nearby region of the Local Bubble (Berghoefer and Breitschwerdt, 2002).