Sentences with phrase «studying exploding stars»
Both groups had been studying exploding stars, or supernovae, and used the objects» movement to show that the universe is speeding up.
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Phosphorus, a key ingredient in your DNA and bones, was originally made in exploding stars, a new study confirms.
These facilities, most notably the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) set to debut in 2020, promise to revolutionize the field of «transient» astronomy — the study not of steady - shining stars and galaxies, but of the things that rapidly move and change: exploding stars, whirling asteroids and comets, and anything else that goes «bump!»
Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close - up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star.
The results of two studies of recent gamma - ray bursts, published today in the journal Science, indicate that exploding stars called supernovae may spawn some of these blasts.
Late in 2002, Wolfram Freudling and two colleagues grabbed some observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope to study the universe's pristine early days, before exploding stars seeded interstellar space with heavy elements.
The evidence for dark energy came from studies of a kind of exploding star known as a Type 1a supernova.
By gathering energetic X-rays, it will study the physics of black holes, the evolution of galaxy clusters, and the formation of heavy elements — crucial for life — in exploding stars.
Last year, we used the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory to study the intricate network of gas filaments to show how exploding stars are creating huge amounts of space dust.»
In the new study, Charles Hailey, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, and his colleagues scrutinized the past dozen years of data gathered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting craft whose instruments are designed to detect high - energy radiation emitted by the immensely hot material surrounding exploded stars and near black holes.
The study calculated that the star that exploded was at least 50 times more massive than the sun and probably much larger.
But in a study published today in the journal Nature, the team discovered a remarkable exception; a star that exploded multiple times over a period of more than fifty years.
My research concentrates on the study of exploding stars — mainly nova outbursts caused by thermonuclear explosions on the surface of white dwarfs in binary star systems.
Combined with the LSST's special three - mirror design, which offers an exceptionally wide field of view, this camera will enable researchers to study the fundamental properties of dark energy and dark matter and take snapshots of objects that quickly change or move against the backdrop of the sky, including exploding stars and near - Earth asteroids.
New details from the study show interactions between fast - moving particles and magnetic fields similar to structures seen on the Sun, other features seen to appear at multiple wavelengths, and structures that may indicate features near the star before it exploded.