Sentences with phrase «nearby supernova remnants»
Each stretches tens of light - years across and three are associated with nearby supernova remnants.
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«CAT scan of nearby supernova remnant reveals frothy interior.»
Other discoveries in the Milky Way detailed in the special edition include the sharpest image yet of a gamma ray source — a nearby supernova remnant — which will enable researchers to study this object at finer scale than before — and three new «gamma ray shells» that are possibly examples of a new type of supernova remnant.
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Using elaborate computer simulations, a team of researchers from RIKEN in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) were able to explain the recently measured spatial distributions of radioactive titanium and nickel in Cassiopeia A, a roughly 340 year old gas remnant of a nearby supernova.
(iii) Far - infrared spectroscopy of dust and ice features will address uncertainties in the mass and composition of dust in galaxies, and the contributions of supernovae to the interstellar dust budget will be quantified by photometry and monitoring of supernova remnants in nearby galaxies.
For example, Helfand pointed out that there are cases in which astronomers concluded that a pulsar and supernova remnant, while nearby, are not related because the pulsar's «characteristic age» was much younger than the age calculated for the supernova remnant.