Sentences with phrase «of giant stars»

I was too busy watching little balls of fire jumping around on the surface of our giant star.

They have planets too, it turns out, as long as they're far enough out that the atmosphere of the giant star hasn't eaten them up.

Was it a rarely seen flare - up near the end of a giant star's life?

Learn about the life cycle of giant stars on the next page.

The deaths of giant stars in supernova explosions can create black holes with several times the mass of our sun.

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of giant stars, would provide the most bang for the buck.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster

Astronomers have strongly suspected that dust also forms after supernovas, the violent explosions of giant stars that send atoms hurtling through space at thousands of kilometers a second.

These newly discovered supernovae are especially puzzling because the mechanism that powers most of them — the collapse of a giant star to a black hole or normal neutron star — can not explain their extreme luminosity.

«A middleweight black hole is hiding at the center of a giant star cluster.»

The celestial beacon was a supernova, the death blast of a giant star that had consumed all its fuel.

The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas exploding in rapid succession as each generation of giant stars dies out.

«ALMA disentangles complex birth of giant stars.»

But it turns out white dwarfs can breach that tipping point in another situation: Instead of a giant star losing material to a white dwarf, two white dwarfs orbiting each other could slam together and explode.

The team, led by Simon Portegies Zwart of the Astronomical Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, notes that the supernova occurred very close to the center of its host galaxy, NG 1260, which is sure to be chock - full of giant stars.

Astronomers using both space - based and ground - based telescopes, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, have analyzed the destruction of the giant star, located in the galaxy NGC 1260 about 240 million light - years away.

Henk Spruit, of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and Sterl Phinney at Caltech had been studying the rotation of giant stars.

This work led to the first sophisticated 2 - D model of a giant star in extremis — and this time, the model star exploded.

In this study, the researchers discovered the surface of the giant star π1Gruis had a complex convective pattern and the typical granule measured 1.2 x 10 ^ 11 meters horizontally or 27 percent of the diameter of the star.

An international team of astronomers has produced the first detailed images of the surface of a giant star outside our solar system, revealing a nearly circular, dust - free atmosphere with complex areas of moving material, known as convection cells or granules, according to a recent study.

The overflow of compressed gas will spawn a starburst — a swarm of giant stars that rapidly burn out and explode in a series of supernova explosions, bathing the region in hard radiation.

Eric Hand, «Mega-Array Reveals Birthplace of Giant Stars,» Nature, Vol 492, 20/27 December 2012, p. 320.

The observation of interstellar clouds in inhospitable regions of space, including in the direct proximity of giant stars, poses the question of the origin of the stability of hydrogen in the molecular form (H2).

Mercedes says that, from the side, the surround of the giant star recalls the intake of a jet engine.

There are plenty of memorable fan - pleasing moments, from entering lightspeed to gasping in awe at the scale of a giant Star Destroyer looming above you.

Collecting 100 of the giant stars found throughout the levels gets an extra life (basically making them equivalent to coins in the 2D Mario games).

The spiky nebula is the famed remnant of a giant star that exploded when it ran out of nuclear fuel.

They orbit an object called PSR B1257 +12, the ultradense core of a giant star that exploded more than a billion years ago.

Neutron stars and black holes share the same origins: the explosive death of giant stars.

«Astronomers produce first detailed images of surface of giant star.»

They could not have grown so big so fast if their «seeds» were small stellar - mass black holes (which result from the collapse of giant stars), Pasham said.

Astronomers believe many GRBs mark the origins of black holes at the cores of giant stars that have consumed their nuclear fuel.

In between, general relativity has made its mark on the Global Positioning System, while explaining anomalous planetary orbits and the whirling death dances of the remnants of giant stars.

These titanic explosions, which mark the deaths of giant stars, produce the heavy elements — including oxygen and carbon — necessary to form planets, life, and people.

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a giant star that exploded thousands of years ago.

In the future, the researchers would like to make even more detailed images of the surface of giant stars and follow the evolution of these granules continuously, instead of only getting snapshot images.

Suddenly they spied an intensely bright light, which they thought at first was a new supernova, the explosive death of a giant star.

Vast clouds billow out from supernovae, the explosive deaths of giant stars that have consumed all their nuclear fuel.

The supernova remnant is the shell of debris from the explosion of a giant star.

The gravity, and hence the pressure, on the surface of a giant star is much lower than for a dwarf star because the radius of the giant is much greater than a dwarf of similar mass.