Nov 30 2010

The Tabletop Supernova

Tag: Astrophysics,Stars,Supernova — Jennifer Ouellette @ 9:06 am
What does it take to replicate a supernova in a laboratory? A test tube, water, glycerol and a miniature mushroom cloud.

Nov 23 2010

Where Have the Baby Black Holes Gone?

Tag: Astrophysics,Stellar Phenomena,Stellar Physics,Supernova — Ian O'Neill @ 1:44 am
Small stellar-mass black holes are missing from the Milky Way, but researchers suspect they never existed.

Nov 15 2010

Black Hole Baby Spotted Being Born

Tag: Astrophysics,Black Hole,Chandra X-Ray Observatory,Galaxies,NASA,Neutron Stars,Supernova,Telescopes,Universe — Larry O'Hanlon @ 7:59 pm
For the first time ever, a black hole has been seen being born out of a supernova of a star perhaps 20 times the mass of our sun.

Nov 10 2010

Giant Bubbles Found in Space

Tag: Astrophysics,Black Hole,Galaxies,NASA,Supernova,Telescopes,Universe — Irene Klotz @ 12:21 pm
An ancient eruption of a supermassive black hole may have inflated the mysteriously huge bubbles that span 50,000 light-years.

Nov 09 2010

Gamma Ray Bursts: Screaming Baby Black Holes?

Tag: NASA Fermi Mission,Stars,Stellar Phenomena,Stellar Physics,Supernova — Ian O'Neill @ 9:25 am
How are gamma ray bursts generated? Is the exotic "magnetar" behind them? Or could the most powerful explosions in the Universe be caused by newborn black holes?

Sep 23 2010

Why Does a Star Explode?

Tag: Neutron Stars,Stars,Supernova,White Dwarfs — Robert Lamb @ 12:36 pm
Nothing lights up the cosmos like a supernova. But why does a star explode to begin with?

Sep 13 2010

Grains of ‘Star Stuff’ Found in Meteorite

Tag: Asteroids,Meteorites,Supernova — Nicole Gugliucci @ 9:58 pm
One of the most mind-blowing revelations to come from astronomy is that, as Carl Sagan so succinctly put it, "We are star stuff." Now scientists have sound the stuff of supernovae in a meteorite sample.

Sep 04 2010

Refitted Radio Telescope Observes Distant Supernova

Tag: Astrophysics,Supernova,Telescopes — Nicole Gugliucci @ 8:35 pm
It seems you can teach an old telescope new tricks. The Expanded Very Large Array (or EVLA) has spotted a distant supernova during commissioning.

Aug 05 2010

Explore a Lopsided Supernova

Tag: Astronomy,Supernova — Nicole Gugliucci @ 4:58 pm
SN 1987A, as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Challis and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) When a large star ends its life, it does not go quietly into the night. Instead, it ...

May 28 2010

Big Baby Stars Found in Milky Way Pockets

Tag: Astrophysics,Galaxies,Spitzer Space Telescope,Stars,Supernova — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:36 pm
These massive stars will eventually die as supernovae, ejecting material, impacting our galaxy's evolution.
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