News tagged with exploding star

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Runaway anti-matter production makes for a spectacular stellar explosion

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Notre Dame astronomer Peter Garnavich and a team of collaborators have discovered a distant star that exploded when its center became so hot that matter and anti-matter particle ...

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created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Silicon technology offers extended X-ray vision of high-energy cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- As elements of the integrated circuits running our computers, phones and electronics, silicon wafers are everywhere. An ESA-led effort is establishing an out-of-this-world use for these ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their t ...

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ...

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years

(PhysOrg.com) -- The chance discovery last month of a rare radio supernova - an exploding star seen only at radio wavelengths and undetected by optical or X-ray telescopes - underscores the promise of new, ...

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created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Cosmology's best standard candles get even better

Members of the international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), a collaboration among the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a consortium of French laboratories, and Yale ...

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created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Magnesium detected in MESSENGER flyby of Mercury (w/Video)

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium -- an element created inside exploding ...

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created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Swift satellite comet tally highlighted

A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a webcast ...

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created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Swift’s Comet Tally

A montage of comet images made using NASA’s Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown today during a live, 24-hour video ...

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created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Dissecting a stellar explosion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integral has captured one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever seen. A meticulous analysis of the data has allowed astronomers to investigate the initial phases of this giant stellar explosion, ...

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The origin of supernovae confirmed

Where do supernovae come from? Astronomers have long believed they were exploding stars, but by analysing a series of images, researchers from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen ...

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created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 2

A curious pair of galaxies

The ESO Very Large Telescope has taken the best image ever of a strange and chaotic duo of interwoven galaxies. The images also contain some surprises -- interlopers both far and near.

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created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0


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