Sentences with phrase «observe exploding stars»
«Astronomers observe exploding stars and astrophysicists model them on supercomputers,» said Wrede, assistant professor of physics at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
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The same can't be said about dark energy, a truly astonishing discovery made by astronomers a decade ago while observing distant exploding stars.
The Accelerating Universe In 1998 two teams of researchers observing distant supernovas — exploding stars — found that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Two teams, led by Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California and Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley, observed scores of distant «Type Ia» supernovae, in which one star in a binary pair explodes.
Late in 2002, Wolfram Freudling and two colleagues grabbed some observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope to study the universe's pristine early days, before exploding stars seeded interstellar space with heavy elements.
Residing in the plane of the Milky Way, where it can not be observed by optical telescopes because of obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, Circinus X-1 is the glowing husk of a binary star system that exploded in a supernova event just 2,500 years ago.
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.
Astronomers have observed for the first time the thunderclap of x-rays that announces a star has exploded into a supernova.
Another key to the creation of the mass distribution map was to accurately determine the distances to the observed galaxies — information that is usually derived from independent surveys that analyze the properties of light coming from those objects or from exploding stars.
NGC 1559 has hosted a variety of spectacular exploding stars called supernovae, four of which we have observed — in 1984, 1986, 2005, and 2009.
According to a paper published this week in Nature, the exploded star is at least 50 times more massive than our sun, but probably much larger, making it possibly the biggest stellar explosion ever observed by humans.
The nebula observed around W26 is very similar to the nebula surrounding SN1987A, the remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova in 1987.
Almost 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers observed light from a star that exploded with amazing force 8,000 light - years away from Earth.