Sentences with phrase «quickly as supernovas»

Those first stars led hard and fast lives, burning bright and dying quickly as supernovas.

Not exact matches

I'm reminded of some dude named Icarus... and of the term «hubris» and the phrase «pride before the fall»... McGregor was a supernova flash in the pan, and as I've said before, he's probably going to go out just as quickly.

In that case, faraway supernovas (which we see as they were billions of years ago, when the growth was more rapid) would have accumulated redshift more quickly relative to their distance than nearby ones.

A new analysis of nearby supernovae suggests space might not be expanding as quickly as it once was, a tantalising hint that the source of dark energy may be more exotic than we thought.

But I believe that around the mid-1980s, when corporations began to become more powerful that some nation states, that the battle for critical democratic citizenship became just a smokescreen for the production of consumer citizenship and critical pedagogy as it was then conceived became more like a dying star about to go into a supernova stage and incinerate any hope we had for real educational transformation, locked as we were within a neoliberal state that was quickly consolidating itself (and that a few decades later would have transformed itself into a security state akin to fascism).