Sandra Faber

You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the interstellar medium, like a chicken broth getting stronger with every reduction. Every time a supernova goes off and sends its heavy elements out into the interstellar medium, we cook up a stew that's better and better for solar systems and life.

American Scientist

Seth Green

Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.

American Actor

David Christian

When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.

American Historian

Andrew Ridgeley

On Christmas Day 2016, the greatest singer songwriter of his generation, an icon of his era, George Michael, was lost. A supernova in the shining stars had been extinguished and it felt like the sky had fallen in.

English Singer

Lisa Randall

The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world.

American Physicist

Supernova refers to an event in space, not something on Earth, relating to the end of a star's life cycle.

Astronomical Event

A supernova is noted for its intense brightness, outshining entire galaxies for a short time.

Cataclysmic Brightness

Supernova implies a violent, destructive ending of a star, but it's a natural part of the universe.

Explosive End

 supernova we often get little blobs of calcium racing out a tenth the speed of light and you can see there's all these turbulent Eddie's where gas is turning over from these instabilities you have in the explosion this is exactly like what we see in the modern simulations of supernovae in real life things are

The Supernova Experiment...

 every point is in fact a type 1a supernova and is relevant for cosmology we want to make sure we use the data effectively so that we get the correct answers but also use the power from this huge school of fish luckily the Reverend Thomas Bayes can help with that Bayes

Making sense of...

 If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. So now the universe is chemically more complex. And in a chemically more complex universe, it's possible to make more things. And what starts happening is that, around young suns,

The history of our world...

 The collapse of a star before it explodes in a supernova, or a very dense neutron stars colliding. Every time we create a new tool to look at space, we discover something we didn't expect, something that might revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

What are gravitational...

 So what does that mean? It means if you take any one of your bodies at random, drop it anywhere in the universe, drop it in space, you die. Drop it on the Sun, you die. Drop it on the surface of Mercury, you die. Drop it near a supernova, you die.

What will humans look...

 It's a way that lets us hear the Universe and hear the invisible. And there's a lot out there that we can't see -- in practice or even in principle. So supernova, for I would love to know why very massive stars explode in supernovae.

What the discovery of...

 of the other planets of our solar system. And who knows? Maybe some future supernova will occur close enough to shower us with its treasure and hopefully not eradicate all life on Earth in the process.

Where does gold come...

 born of our drive to unveil the mysteries of life. So under an endless rain of cosmic dust, the air is full of pollen, micro-diamonds and jewels from other planets and supernova explosions.

Hidden miracles of the...

 generates in its lifetime when a star goes supernova the shock wave is so immense it's hard to imagine any planet surviving that when the cosmic dust clears all that remains is the crushed

Pulsar Planets PIPE...

 Just now, somewhere in the universe, a star exploded. There goes another one. In fact, a supernova occurs every second or so in the observable universe,