Sentences with phrase «rare type of supernova»

This article appeared in print under the headline «Speeding star may have survived rare type of supernova»

She accepted an offer from a group of astronomers at Berkeley, part of a collaboration studying a rare type of supernova that some believe holds the key to measuring the expansion of the universe.

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.»

DAZZLING in its brightness, a rare type of star's first outburst in 2009 was soon dismissed as the tantrum of a supernova impostor.

For this study, the team set out to investigate the timing of supernova dust formation by measuring isotopes — versions of elements with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons — in rare presolar silicon carbide grains with compositions indicating that they formed in type II supernovae.

Rob Beswick, a co-author of the research paper from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics added: «The explosion of a Type Ia supernova is a rare event in the nearby Universe.

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.

Although time on the Keck telescopes is scheduled 6 months in advance and is highly coveted, the two different teams observing on Keck I and Keck II that night both agreed to interrupt their research and point the mighty 10 - meter telescopes at M82 and gather valuable data and rare insight into the life cycle of type 1a supernova.