Sentences with phrase «spectacularly in supernova»
The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short - lived, massive stars.
Bigger stars with masses at least five times greater than the sun's have much shorter life spans — sometimes only a few hundred thousand years — and die spectacularlyin huge explosions called supernovae.