Sentences with phrase «other types of supernova»

Not exact matches

«The fact that this supernova event didn't expel the other star, which is 20 to 25 times the mass of our sun, makes this an incredibly rare type of binary system.»

• How might the burned - out stars called white dwarfs be brought to ruin by other stars in so - called Type Ia supernovae, inciting the fiery alchemy that yielded much of the iron in our blood and the potassium in our brains?

In fact, SN 2017egm was not only superluminous, but superclose: At just 420 million light - years away, it was three times closer than any other observed supernova of its type.

The Hubble Space Telescope's recent discovery of the earliest known Type Ia supernova from more than 10 billion years ago, plus other results, favor a scenario in which two white dwarfs merge.

Other telescopes around the world soon confirmed that it was a type Ia supernova, one of the brightest events of the cosmos.

To check the value of the Hubble constant that they have obtained from a single object, Schmidt and his colleagues plan to apply their technique to other type II supernovae that have occurred in distant galaxies.

Type Ia supernovae completely destroy the core of a star, but the other three types leave a super-dense core behind.

It's so consistent that Type Ia supernovae are also called standard candles: Once astronomers find one in a region of space, they can use it as a baseline with which to compare other objects around it.

Before 1987, astronomers believed that only red supergiants would explode as supernovae, but this observation proved that other types of evolved stars can produce these explosions too.

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.

Optical and near - infrared coverage of SN 2004et: physical parameters and comparison with other type IIP supernovae.

They applied a new technique that could have implications for understanding other Type Ia supernovae, a class of stellar explosions that scientists use to determine the expansion rate of the universe.

Using Keck, we have traced atoms as they flow from the intergalactic medium into galaxies, where they are incorporated into stars, undergo fusion, and are returned in supernovae and other types of stellar death.