Sentences with phrase «then explodes as a supernova»

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.