Quotes About Supernova

You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!' 'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.' She looks at him quizzically. 'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.

Wolf-Rayet stars

It is the destiny of stars to collapse.

The Gum Nebula was one of the largest astronomical landmarks in the Orion Arm. It was a gigantic supernova remnant, a shock front from the death of a star over a million years in the past.

I've killed more stars than anyone will ever see

I always thought I was happy being the dark star to your supernova.

You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.

She closed her eyes. "Okay, here's the thing. We have some chemistry," she allowed. "Some? Or supernova?" "Supernova. But," she said to his knowing grin. Good Lord, he needed to stop doing that. "I really did give up men." "Forever?" "My gut says yes, but that might be PMS talking. Let's just say I'm giving up men for a very long time." "You going to try out women?

himself like a comet." "A supernova," Venable said. "He went back to traditional values

It can be said that we are all "star dust," the product of heavy element generation within previous generations of stars.

To say that the two assassins were dead was as much of an understatement as saying that a supernova is the end of a star's life. It conveyed nothing of the catastrophic violence involved.

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they Starr to run out of fuel,they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.

I turn my telescope to Barnards Loop and M42, glowing in Orions sword. Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see.As they Starr to run out of fuel,they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.

Data. That's what matters. That's what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it's useless.