Sentences with phrase «surrounding ejecta»
The crater's structure and surrounding ejecta was indicative of an explosive outburst.
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With over 40 Solar - masses, extremely high luminosity, a variable spectra, and surrounding ejecta, it is classified as a Luminous Blue Variable like Eta Carinae, as an extremely large star that are now often regarded as the evolutionary link between main - sequence O stars and the more evolved, smaller but similarly explosive, Wolf - Rayet stars.
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When that ejecta rammed into surrounding interstellar gas, it created a shock wave — the equivalent of a cosmic «sonic boom.»
As for why this crater is elongated, the researchers found the answer in the surrounding blanket of material (called the ejecta blanket).