Sentences with phrase «remnant of a red giant»

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After hitting this envelope of gas, which was sloughed off by the progenitor red giant star as it neared the end of its life, a portion of this powerful explosion rebounded back towards the centre of the remnant.

As Vega is so much bigger and hotter than Sol, however, the star will exhaust its core hydrogen after only another 650 million years or so (for a total life of around a billion years) and turn into a red giant or Cepheid variable before puffing away its outer layers to reveal a remnant core as a white dwarf.

To wit, Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas created a site specific installation which includes a giant elephant, red brick tiles and an imagined archive facility filled with remnants of contemporary culture.