Sentences with phrase «nuclear furnace»

All heavier elements like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen were created much later in the hot nuclear furnaces of stars.

Creating so much oxygen takes a fiercer nuclear furnace than is needed for a carbon - rich mixture, so the stars that became these white dwarfs must have been hot and massive.

These elements are forged in the stars» fiery nuclear furnaces.

More important, high - mass clusters produce high - mass stars — brightly burning nuclear furnaces 10 to 100 times the mass of our sun.

From 5 to 8 billion years, the sun's nuclear furnace will undergo a dramatic shift, causing it to expand to enormous size and engulf Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth.

If only we had a giant source of energy... say a nuclear furnace of some sort... to bombard the earth with photons that could supply the energy for life processes.

Our sun came into existence — it first turned on its nuclear furnace — about five billion years ago.

The behavior of high - speed particles — whether the result of physicists» colliders or the sun's nuclear furnace — only makes sense with special relativity.

Neutrinos are elementary particles produced in the nuclear furnaces inside stars and in supernova explosions.

Without them, we would have no understanding of the physics that governs the tides, waves breaking on the beach, the ever - changing weather, the movements of the planets, the nuclear furnaces of the stars, the spirals of galaxies — the vastness of the universe and our place within it.

Elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars or during supernova explosions.

Metals arise in the nuclear furnaces of stars, whose death throes spew them into space.

Eventually, the star consumes enough to ignite its nuclear furnace.

On the one hand we have the hot Sun, a nuclear furnace that is 1047 times as massive as Jupiter.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old, and its first 500 million years or so were dark because the first stars had not yet ignited their nuclear furnaces.

The results show that dark matter particles, or neutralinos, apparently smashed into each other and heated the star - forming clouds, keeping them from condensing enough to ignite their nuclear furnaces.

It requires sunfulls of dust and strong gravitational crunches to ignite the nuclear furnace that powers them.

Some of them are coming from the nuclear furnace of the sun.

Binns discards them and focuses instead on rare but much more communicative heavy atoms, ranging in mass from zinc to molybdenum — the «trans - iron» elements that make up the TI in TIGER — which are produced in the nuclear furnaces of extremely massive stars.

Heavier elements — including nitrogen, oxygen, iron, carbon and more — were forged in the nuclear furnaces at the cores of those first stars, then spewed into interstellar space when the stars exploded.

The presence of a protoplanetary disk, on the other hand, could hinder the star's rotation, thereby causing lithium and other lighter elements to sink deep inside the star's nuclear furnace, where they are consumed.

The ancient stardust includes just the second known oxygen - rich grain forged in the nuclear furnace of a supernova explosion, according to a report in tomorrow's Science.

The carbon atoms that are essential to life on Earth were forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars that lived and died in an earlier epoch of the Universe, and which seeded the clouds out of which our own Sun and the Solar System were formed.

The pressure at the center becomes so great that hydrogen atoms begin to fuse and produce helium, starting up the nuclear furnace inside the young star.

Most of the chemical elements, composing everything from planets to paramecia, are forged by the nuclear furnaces in stars like the Sun.

It's called the Rukus Solar, and it gets its power from the 620 million metric tons of hydrogen fused each second by the Sun's nuclear furnace.