Sentences with phrase «powerful exploding stars»

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Everything with mass in the universe theoretically creates them — you and me included — but only highly cataclysmic events, such as exploding stars, colliding black holes, or the Big Bang, can generate waves that are powerful enough for LIGO to detect.

Space is permeated by cosmic rays, which are high - speed particles produced by powerful events like flares on the Sun or exploding stars in deep space.

This animation illustrates how the powerful gravity of a massive galaxy cluster bends and focuses the light from a supernova behind it, resulting in multiple images of the exploding star.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Astronomers have for the first time spotted four images of a distant exploding star, arranged in a cross-shape pattern by a powerful gravitational lens.

Norbert Schulz and Nicola Omodei discuss the recent detection of a dying star igniting the most powerful blast ever seen — something so powerful it radiated energy that was 500 million times that of visible light and how scientists have discovered that a familiar sight in the skies is actually our earliest view yet of a star being consumed by the remnant of a nearby exploded star.

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.

Explode into the classic PlayStation shooter with an entirely new perspective — get ready to defend your planet once more, this time from inside the cockpit of your powerful star fighter.