News tagged with core collapse supernova
A curious pair of galaxies
Mar 16, 2009 |
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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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A new class of dim supernovae
Jun 05, 2009 |
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The colossal stellar explosions called supernovae come in many kinds and flavours. Some of them are produced when a massive star reaches the end of its life in a sudden gravitational collapse. Astronomers ...
Modeling Supernovae Core Collapse
Jun 28, 2006 |
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“What we've done,” explains University of Arizona professor Adam Burrows, “is unlocked the core of supernovae. We have a computational tool that allows us to go into the core, and we see that there’s gravitational radiation—much ...
Queen's astronomers propose new supernova interpretation
Jun 09, 2009 |
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In a controversial new paper in the journal Nature, astronomers from Queen's University Belfast have proposed a new physical interpretation of a supernova discovered on 7th November 2008.
After the collapse: Scientists observe the largest exploding star yet seen
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University managed to observe a super-sized supernova explosion from start to finish, including the black hole ending.
Chandra sees brightest supernova ever
May 07, 2007 |
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The brightest stellar explosion ever recorded may be a long-sought new type of supernova, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes. This discovery indicates ...
How to make the brightest supernova ever: Explode, collapse, repeat
Nov 14, 2007 |
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A supernova observed last year was so bright--about 100 times as luminous as a typical supernova--that it challenged the theoretical understanding of what causes supernovae. But Stan Woosley, professor of ...
Swift sees double supernova in galaxy
Jun 26, 2007 |
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In just the past six weeks, two supernovae have flared up in an obscure galaxy in the constellation Hercules. Never before have astronomers observed two of these powerful stellar explosions occurring in the ...
XMM-Newton reveals the origin of elements in galaxy clusters
May 10, 2006 |
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Deep observations of two X-ray bright clusters of galaxies with ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite allowed a group of international astronomers to measure their chemical composition with an unprecedented accuracy. ...
'Little bang' triggered solar system formation
Oct 02, 2008 |
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For several decades, scientists have thought that the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star—a supernova—that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas cloud that contracted ...
Geologists to discuss historic ice core
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2007 |
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An Antarctic core with unprecedented geological detail of the Ross Ice Shelf will be featured during a U.S. international geology meeting.
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