Sentences with phrase «supergiant star with»

Thorne has carried out a wide range of theoretical research in gravitation and astrophysics, including having predicted the existence of a type of red supergiant star with a neutron star core, and using general relativity to describe how black holes move and precess.

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Stars with more than about 10 solar masses, after burning their hydrogen become red supergiants during their helium - burning phase.

Deneb is tied with Orion's foot star, Rigel, as the most luminous bright star in the heavens — a white supergiant, more dazzling than the famous red variety.

That's fast enough to crowd the young universe with supergiants whose explosions would provide the materials for future stars and galaxies.

Freedman and her colleagues found that dozens of these stars are yellow supergiants, with the brightness and colour of Cepheids.

This picture of the dramatic nebula around the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse was created from images taken with the VISIR infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).

& Cantiello, M. Evolution of massive stars with pulsation - driven superwinds during the red supergiant phase.

Red supergiants are cooler and redder than dwarfs of the same spectral type, and stars with particular spectral features such as carbon stars may be far redder than any black body.

The star UY Scuti, visible in the night sky as part of the constellation Scutum, is a red supergiant that, with a volume nearly five billion times larger than our Sun, is currently the leading candidate for being the largest known star by radius.