News tagged with star explosion
Neutron star blows away models for thermonuclear explosions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Amsterdam astronomers have discovered a neutron star that confounds existing models for thermonuclear explosions in such extreme objects. In the case of the accreting pulsar IGR J17480-2446, ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Our galaxy might hold thousands of ticking 'time bombs'
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Hollywood blockbuster "Speed," a bomb on a bus is rigged to blow up if the bus slows down below 50 miles per hour. The premise - slow down and you explode - makes for a great action ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Why Won't the Supernova Explode?
A massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, it begins to collapse under its own tremendous weight. The crushing pressure inside the star skyrockets, triggering new ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Astrophysicists solve mystery in Milky Way galaxy
A team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable "dark matter" ...
Jul 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Black Holes in Star Clusters stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn’s Argelander-Institut ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes
(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Hubble observations of supernova reveal composition of 'star guts' pouring out
Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space following ...
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Death of a star in 3D
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching have for the first time managed to reproduce the asymmetries and fast-moving iron clumps of observed supernovae by complex ...
May 11, 2010 |
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NASA's RXTE captures thermonuclear behavior of unique neutron star
(PhysOrg.com) -- A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. In October ...
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it. The discovery, using the National ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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New class of stellar explosions discovered
They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Among the most ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Seeing a Stellar Explosion in 3D (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time obtained a three-dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a recently exploded star. The ...
Aug 04, 2010 |
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New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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