Sentences with phrase «then explode as supernovae»

If they are jettisoned out of the galaxy and then explode as supernovae, the heavy elements they contain could be released into this medium.

The idea behind the death of a massive star is relatively straightforward: It gets old, runs out of fuel, collapses under gravity and then explodes as a supernova.

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Depending on its chemistry, the star might then explode as an exceptionally bright supernova or collapse into a smaller, faster - spinning millisecond pulsar, an event that has not been witnessed before (arxiv.org/abs/1302.4634).

And then I also thought about the fact that over the history of the life of the universe, neutrinos are not just produced by the sun, but when stars explode in a supernova, the most brilliant fireworks in the universe, as brilliant as those fireworks are, less than 1 percent of the energy of the star is coming out in light; 99 percent is coming out as neutrinos and so neutrinos are being, [and] every time [a star explodes there's] an incredible burst of neutrinos.

The white dwarf accretes material from the companion star, then at some point, it might explode as a type Ia supernova.