Sentences with phrase «such as a supernova»

Apart from FRB counterparts, MeerLICHT is expected to detect many other optical transients, such as supernovae.

He adds that the technique will improve measurements of astronomical distances, which build on the distances of nearby objects such as M33 to estimate the distances to other «standard candles» farther away, such as supernovae.

The two observatories of the All - Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae scan the Northern and Southern hemispheres every night with six 5.5 - inch telescopes (eight total by the end of the summer), taking photos of the sky and comparing successive images to find changes, such as supernovas.

No further bursts were seen in 90 hours of additional observations, which implies that it was a singular event such as a supernova or coalescence of relativistic objects.

Other cosmic phenomena such as supernovae in the Milky Way and colliding neutron stars in our galactic neighborhood should also produce detectable gravitational waves, each with their own accompanying revolutionary insights, but so far all three of LIGO's detections have been death - rattles from merging pairs of black holes in remote stretches of the universe.

Pan-Starrs will repeatedly scan the same portions of the sky to look for changes, such as the supernova discovered during the telescope's test runs last fall.

Some cosmic rays detected on Earth are produced in violent events such as supernovae, but we still don't know the origins of the highest - energy particles, which are the most energetic particles ever seen in nature.

Catastrophic events such as supernovae cause gravitational waves, rather as a falling stone causes ripples on the surface of a pond.

In return, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations will be sifting through data to search for gravitational waves that could have been generated by events, such as supernova explosions, seen by the conventional observatories.

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has been busy gathering information on cosmic phenomena such as supernovas and black holes, and will continue to do so until at least the year 2009.

One of the potentially lethal menaces of space travel comes from being bombarded with energized subatomic particles, expelled from solar flares and events such as supernovas.

Star formation is a longer process than previously thought, and is heavily dependent on outside events, such as supernova explosions, to trigger it, a team of astronomers has concluded.

«NIRES is expected to be one of the most efficient single - object, near - infrared spectrographs on an eight to ten - meter telescope, designed to study explosive, deep sky phenomena such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts, a capability that is in high demand.»

Those discoveries would allow us to learn more about the phenomena, such as supernovae and colliding black holes, that generate the waves.

Not exact matches

Ripples in space time have already been observed when hyper - violent events, such as stars collapsing into black holes or supernova explosions, occur.

She estimated Buso's chances of such a discovery, his first supernova, at one in 10 million or perhaps even as low as one in 100 million.

The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

«By introducing asymmetry into the explosion and adjusting the gas properties of the surrounding environment, we were able to reproduce a number of observed features from the real supernova such as the persistent one - sidedness in the radio images,» said Dr Toby Potter.

As many as 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova requireAs many as 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova requireas 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova required.

Measuring gravitational waves would allow astronomers to probe phenomena such as the heart of supernovas and could provide insight into the Big Bang.

• What do we know about the nature of the death of massive stars — signaled by Type II supernovae — that fashion crucial elements such as calcium and oxygen?

This awkward status as cosmic in - betweener means brown dwarfs are often overshadowed by their flashier counterparts, such as alien worlds or fiery supernovae.

Gas and dust in space can have an impact on the brightness of standard candles — objects with known brightness such as type 1a supernovas and some variable stars

FLASH OF LIGHT Type 1a supernovas, such as the one seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image, can be triggered in at least two different ways, new research shows.

Young supernova remnants such as Cassiopeia A are among the most beautiful objects in the X-ray sky.

It is thought these rays come from some of the universe's most powerful particle accelerators, such as intense supernovae.

The highest energy gamma rays originate in the graveyards of big stars, such as the spinning pulsar remnants of supernovae.

Supernovas are extremely important for cosmic ecology because they inject huge amounts of energy into the interstellar gas, and are responsible for dispersing elements such as iron, calcium and oxygen into space where they may be incorporated into future generations of stars and planets.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

It provides an overview of fifteen years of research that has successfully characterized the most abundant types of gamma ray sources, such as pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, and made detailed measurements of individual sources as well as of entire regions of the Milky Way.

Its huge 15 - ton mirror excels at light - sensitive work, such as tracking distant supernovas to determine how the universe's expansion is changing over time.

The groups used different statistical approaches to subtract out the gamma - ray emission from normal astrophysical sources such as pulsars and supernovae to hunt for a dark matter signal, and each arrived at the same conclusion — that any gamma - ray light coming from dark matter must be generated by a relatively heavy particle.

Such stars end their brief lives in titanic supernova explosions, so supernovae in Carina must also be twice as frequent as had been assumed until now — and the same might be true for other star - forming regions in our galaxy.

The Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research's VOEventNet project, which created a virtual observatory by linking a number of telescopes, introduced a software program this week that works with Sky, allowing users to post and view images and video of transient phenomena such as exploding and colliding stars, gamma - ray bursts, and supernovae within minutes of their detection.

The astronomers, who published their results in The Astrophysical Journal, hope such observations will help them understand supernovae, which are important because the blasts are thought to create heavy elements such as silver, nickel, and copper.

But theorists predict such disks as a by - product of the supernovae that can give birth to stellar - mass black holes.

We know from very precise supernova observations that the universe is accelerating, but at the same time we rely on coarse approximations to Einstein's equations which may introduce serious side - effects, such as the need for dark energy, in the models designed to fit the observational data.»

Astronomers don't yet know which particular conditions could have triggered such «extraordinary luminosity,» as the team that discovered the supernova writes in the 20 October issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Cosmologists typically focus on the large - scale properties of the universe as a whole, such as galaxies and intergalactic medium; while astrophysicists are more interested in testing physical theories of small - to medium - sized objects, such as stars, supernovae and interstellar medium.

Caption: The colors represent the relative amounts of short - lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron - 60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

This process, understood now for the first time, is necessary to prepare such gigantic stars to meet explosive demises as supernovae.

Astro - H is an X-ray observatory, scheduled for launch in 2015, that will explore extreme phenomena such as black holes, supernovae explosions, and clusters of galaxies.

As such, this was the first bright supernova to be observed with modern scientific instruments.

In any case, LP40 - 365 is the first known white dwarf to have survived a (failed) Type Ia supernova, and as such it opens up some exciting prospects for future science.

By detecting gamma - and X-rays, astronomers can observe the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes devouring matter and supernova explosions.

The violent outflowing winds as seen in Eta Carinae herald the end of a star's life as a supernova, and their study provides scientists with clues about how such stars evolve and die.

Types Ib and Ic are believed to correspond to stars ending their lives (as Type - II supernovae), but such stars would have lost their hydrogen before, and so hydrogen lines don't appear on their spectra (more discussion).

One is that they are caused by a cataclysmic event, such as a neutron star collapsing into a black hole or supernova.

«Other ejection mechanisms, such as stellar collisions and a supernova explosion have been proposed, but all of them would lead to the disruption of a wide binary.»

In contrast to Type - Ia supernovae such as Tycho's Star and Supernova 1997ff, Types Ib and Ic do not exhibit a silicon line and are even less understood than Type Ia.