Sentences with phrase «supernova debris cloud»

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The cloud may even be much closer than most astronomers think and be part of the debris of a nearby supernova.

This year, astronomers traced high - energy particles called cosmic rays back to their birthplaces in the debris clouds of supernovae — a feat that Science's editors chose as a runner - up for Breakthrough of the Year.

About two months later, the star actually exploded, blowing chunks of debris into the cloud of gas, which caused a giant shockwave that produced the light of the supernova.

This magnetar also remains embedded in an expanding cloud of debris from a supernova explosion.

supernova remnant The clouds of gas and debris surrounding a star that exploded long ago.

Observations of SN 2006gy with optical telescopes have determined that the bulk of supernova's debris is moving outward at around 15 million kilometers (or 9.3 million miles) per hour (kph or mph) into a circumstellar nebula or «cloud» of hydrogen gas that is coasting along at a leisurely 700,000 kph (or 430,000 mph).