Sentences with phrase «when dying stars»

The nebulae form when dying stars similar to our sun expel their atmospheres.

According to this theory, when the dying star swells to become a red giant, it engulfs the companion star.

Big black holes are spawned when a dying star collapses, packing so much mass into such a small space that gravity becomes overwhelmingly powerful.

Not exact matches

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B - movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died.

That's right, we've made of stars — created when they died; and they were created when other stars died; right back to the big bang.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

I know when the Universe wil end and exactly how it will end, I know how our star the sun will die one day and what the process is thats going to kill it along with the Earth and all its beautiful life.

In the end, you have your beliefs while others have theirs — yours appear to have something to do with ET and the stars and maybe returning from there when you die — so... no walking on water or parting of seas — but there IS a starman and he is YOU?

Funny how star gazing gives one awe and a sense of eternity and in my case it removes the hope of heaven... i.e. there is no heaven, just space with gazeous substance... a place where it is childish and absurd to think we are going when we die... Our solar system / galaxy seem empty of organic life altogether... actually inorganic seems to be the norm... so my faith struggle of the week is how can I possibly believe in after life... when reality shows me decomposition of all that we are, scientific observation does not allow room for a «spirit body» to rise and go in some nebulae... So why do I still need to believe despite this raw evidence... I drive me crazy sometimes...

Some of the year's baby names were inspired by celebrities who died: R&B star Percy Sledge (who sang «When a Man Loves a Woman»), British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, Civil Rights activist Julian Bond, and singer and TV personality Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Prophet Oduro Gyebi was speaking on Kumasi based Abusua FM when he claimed that spiritually he has seen the former Marseille star dying through some strange sickness cast on him by an enemy.

When New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died on Saturday, he left behind an enormous portfolio of work and a mourning staff at Stage Star Deli who thought of him as family.

Virginia lawyer Khizr Khan became the surprise star of last week's Democratic National Convention when he took the stage and told the story of his slain US Army son, who died in Iraq in 2004.

So, too, do astrophysical exotica such as neutron stars and white dwarfs — the remnants left by normal stars when they die.

The authors explored how established stars influence the flow of ideas by examining what happens to scientific fields when a dominating figure unexpectedly dies.

Gal - Yam thinks the conditions in the host galaxy could be like those in the early universe, when theory says such giant stars were born and died in great numbers, seeding the universe with heavy elements.

What happens to these stars when they die?

Because most of these stars detonate when they hit a set mass limit, their behaviour is fairly predictable, but occasionally we see a dying star go off the rails.

When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova, which includes a short burst of visible light, as in this illustration.

And last year, when astronomers trained the Hubble Space Telescope on some of these dying stars, the images they got back revealed a process that was far more complex and subtle than anyone had imagined.

A star begins to die when the last of the hydrogen fuel at its center succumbs to the star's fusion furnace and the center collapses into a highly compressed, white - hot core.

The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short - lived, massive stars.

Two decades ago, however, improvements in telescopes and computer simulations began to give astronomers their first detailed understanding of what actually happens when smaller stars die.

Elements lighter than iron are built up in the cores of massive stars and released when they die.

When a star dies, this material is cast into space.

Massive stars can also cause havoc within a cloud when they die.

The darkened corpse of a former sun from which not even light can escape, a black hole forms when a massive, dying star crumples under its own gravity.

It turns out it was a sort of cosmic death ray - when a massive star in the distant universe died, it shot out a high - speed jet of particles straight at Earth.

New information gleaned from gravitational wave observations is helping scientists understand what happens when massive stars die and transform into black holes.

These bursts, which have been detected in large numbers by NASA's Swift telescope, are fleeting explosions thought to be caused when massive stars die or when neutron stars merge.

Last days of the univserse When physicists project forward 100 trillion years, they see potential threats much more dire than a ballooning sun or even the dying of all the stars.

Big stars with low metal content don't shed as much of their mass over time, so when one of them dies, almost all of its mass will wind up in the black hole.

The iron in Earth's core may be from giant iron bullets fired off by stars when they die.

When they die, stars explode in supernovae, leaving behind a cloud of ejected material called a supernova remnant.

This snowballing effect would occur in the centres of young, dense star clusters, producing a black hole when the accumulated stars explode and die.

The enigmatic disease came to broad attention in June 2013, when recreational divers near Vancouver, British Columbia, and Seattle, Washington, began noticing legions of dying sea stars.

That points to neutron stars — which form when short - lived massive stars in stellar nurseries die — as the source of fast radio bursts.

The team also succeeded in explaining, with a theoretical model, that the actual changes (balance of inflow and outflow) in gas levels they observed were the result of the increasing amount of gas falling into the supermassive black holes within the gas disks enhanced by strong turbulence generated by supernova explosions (an activity associated with star formation) when a star inside the dense gas disks dies.

Writing in the Sept. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, Burrows — along with first author Jason Nordhaus, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton, and Ann Almgren and John Bell from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California — reports that the Princeton team has developed simulations that are beginning to match the massive blow - outs astronomers have witnessed when gigantic stars die.

The star that caused this «shot seen across the cosmos» died when the universe was less than one - seventh its present age.

The elements are synthesised by the nuclear combustion process in stars and driven out into space when the star dies and explodes.

Type Ia supernovas are known to form when a white dwarf merges with another star, like a puffed - up red giant (as opposed to Type II supernovas, which form when a single star dies and collapses on itself).

Galaxies die when they become unable to give birth to young stars.

When a star dies, its final gasps can trigger the most powerful blasts of energy in the universe.

In the normal course of events, a galaxy dies — or becomes quiescent — when its massive reservoir of gas and dust is used up during the formation of stars.

Elements heavier than helium — so called «metals» — are produced inside stars and released into the cosmos when they die.

A pulsar is formed when a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel and dies in a cataclysmic explosion called a supernova.

In a stellar black hole, which forms when a giant star dies explosively, the rotation is a logical remnant of the star's spin.

When massive stars die, they create explosions known as supernovas.

Stars form from disks of gas and dust; when they die, as here in the Ring Nebula in a Spitzer Space Telescope image, they contract into a cloud of gas and dust.