Measuring coherent neutrino scattering could help scientists understand the processes that occur
within exploding stars, or supernovas, which emit huge numbers of neutrinos (SN: 02/18/17, p. 24).
Not exact matches
In each case, humankind stood witness to a supernova — an
exploding star —
within or relatively close to our galaxy (representative border in gray, below).
New research zeroes in on one supernova, called SN 2017egm, which
exploded May 23
within view of the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, which monitors
star positions.
The Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research's VOEventNet project, which created a virtual observatory by linking a number of telescopes, introduced a software program this week that works with Sky, allowing users to post and view images and video of transient phenomena such as
exploding and colliding
stars, gamma - ray bursts, and supernovae
within minutes of their detection.
They really have a strong reluctance to mingle with other particles, which makes them antisocial and difficult to pin down, but they are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot about many different things, many different mysteries about the nature of matter, about what triggers
exploding stars, to what's going on in the heart of the sun, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions
within seconds after the big bang.
Ray Jayawardhana: They are connected to such a wide range of phenomenon from the subatomic to the cosmic that they could tell us a lot about the nature of matter, about what triggers
exploding stars, to what the universe might have been like, the conditions
within seconds after the big bang.
«Cosmic «dust factory» reveals clues to how
stars are born: Scientists find new molecules
within remnants of an
exploded star for the very first time.»
They blazed brilliantly, but
within just a few million years they burned out and
exploded, spewing heavy elements that helped seed the formation of succeeding generations of
stars and planets.
After
exploding as a supernova, the
star would have faded from view
within a year or so — and eventually from living memory, until, 25 years ago, a radio telescope near Canberra, Australia, found its curious remains.
When the
star exploded within this shell about two months later, the initial explosion would have been invisible to us.
The
stars within Hodge 301 formed together tens of millions of years ago and as the massive ones quickly exhaust their nuclear fuel they
explode.
In February, Doctor Strange
star Benedict Cumberbatch teased that the mutliverse is about to get even bigger: «What we've seen happen
within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is this ever - expanding coterie of superheroes, and I think now we're at the stage where this universe, even
within our world, has gotten quite crowded and it's just about to
explode into other dimensions.»