Science news articles about 'death of a star'

MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- British astronomers say cosmic dust was partially created by the gradual death of carbon stars and not just from stars that exploded.

Gigantic Planet Causing Own Orbit To Warp, Putting It on Collision Course with Star

Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy. Created by the death of a star, a new supernova appears in a spiral galaxy only about once a century

... the universe was less than one-seventh its present age. "This burst accompanies the death of a star from one of the universe's early generations," says Patricia Schady of the Mullard Space Science ...

... object initially misled its discoverers as it showed up as a gamma-ray burst, suggesting the death of a star in the distant Universe. But soon afterwards, it exhibited some unique behaviour that ...

... two nearby examples suggests that this type of activity could be relatively common during the death of massive stars. "Not only does our work suggest that SN 1987A isn't as unusual as previously ...

... by radiation from the supernova shock wave that blew the star apart some 11,000 years ago. ... ultraviolet radiation and X-rays that heralded the death of the star. The flash was a hundred billion times ...

Collaborators experience dramatic drop in output that can last decades

... supernovae in question, SN2008ha, more closely resembles those supernovae associated with the death of massive stars when their core collapses. The key difference with the other faint explosion of ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were spawned inside the progenitor stars.