Sentences with phrase «rare type of star»
DAZZLING in its brightness, a rare type of star's first outburst in 2009 was soon dismissed as the tantrum of a supernova impostor.
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«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.»
The difficulty of forming a star of this mass, and the shortness of their lifetimes, means that they are very rare — only one in every three million stars in our cosmic neighbourhood is an O - type star.
This glittering cluster contains over 100,000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at its centre.
The classic «star pattern» of a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)- a rare type of stroke that is fatal in 50 % all cases.
This article appeared in print under the headline «Speeding star may have survived rare type of supernova»
Capturing the creation of this type of large, short - lived star body is extremely rare — the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds, said the scientists, who relied primarily on data from Keck Observatory's NIRC2 fitted with the laser guide star adaptive optics (LGSAO) system.
Another possibility is a rare type of exploding star that spews jets of material.
Type Ia supernovae are fairly rare in the nearby Universe and represent the explosion of at least one white dwarf star in a binary system.
«Here we have a rare opportunity to study a phenomenon that plays out over many decades and provides a window into the types of environments around stars that could represent planetary building blocks at the very end of a star system's life.»
Astronomers studying two rare types of binary systems containing rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars have observed some unique behavior — these pulsars consume their mates.
Space telescopes in the future will be technically capable of registering the huge light issued by the explosion of this type of stars, but the opportunities to do so — even once — during the life span of an observatory are rare.
MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf that can serve as a benchmark for studying objects with masses that lie between stars and planets.
Rampage is one of those rare delights that B Movie audiences get when their favourite brand of film - making (Sharktopus, Dragon Wasps — you know the type), gets a massive budget, worthy CGI and some charismatic stars.