News tagged with type ia supernova
Ticking stellar time bomb identified (w/ Video)
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova," says Patrick Woudt, from the University ...
Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Researchers 'clear away the dust,' get better look at youngest supernova remnant
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have used a mathematical model that allows them to get a clearer picture of the galaxy's youngest supernova remnant by correcting for the distortions caused ...
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Supernova explosions stay in shape
Dec 17, 2009 |
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At a very early age, children learn how to classify objects according to their shape. Now, new research suggests studying the shape of the aftermath of supernovas may allow astronomers to do the same.
Supernova remnant is an unusual suspect
Jun 09, 2009 |
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A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a supernova remnant with a different look. This object, known as SNR 0104-72.3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small neighboring ...
X-ray Evidence Supports Possible New Class Of Supernova
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Evidence for a significant new class of supernova has been found with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton. These results strengthen the case for a population of stars ...
Unusual shape of exploded star puzzles scientists
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Penn State astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new image of a ghostly exploded star with an unusual shape in a galaxy near the Milky Way. Astronomers think the object may be ...
Possible progenitor of special supernova type detected
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have reported the possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova explosion. The new method they used provides ...
Action replay of powerful stellar explosion
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Astronomers have made the best ever determination of the power of a supernova explosion that was visible from Earth long ago. By observing the remnant of a supernova and a light echo from the initial outburst, ...
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 ...
White Dwarf 'Sibling Rivalry' Explodes into Supernova
Nov 01, 2007 |
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Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that a supernova discovered last year was caused by two colliding white dwarf stars. The white dwarfs were siblings orbiting ...
Watching a Supernova Come and Go
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were spawned inside the progenitor stars.
'Champagne supernova' challenges understanding of how supernovae work
Sep 20, 2006 |
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An international team of astronomers led by a group at the University of Toronto has discovered a supernova more massive than previously believed possible. This has experts rethinking our basic understanding ...
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