1.   Astronomers are especially surprised by the variety of colorful patterns spun into interstellar space by the ejected gases illumined by the ultraviolet light from the dying stars.

2.   Every few seconds, a dying star explodes somewhere in the universe, its brilliant light shining through intergalactic space like a faraway beacon.

3.   It seems, he said, that they are bubbles of older gas caught in the stellar gale of hot-flowing material from dying stars.

4.   Many dying stars collapse to become cosmic exotica like black holes or neutron stars.

5.   Other neutrinos are byproducts of nuclear fusion in stars and may play a triggering role in explosions of dying stars.

6.   Perhaps, according to this line of reasoning, the dying star envelops its companion, and the rotation of the smaller object spins up the big star.

7.   Scientists at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University said on Thursday that the strange behavior may be the last gasps of a dying star.

8.   Supernova explosions, produced by certain types of dying stars, are the most violent blasts astronomers knew until now.

9.   That might account for the presence of doughnut-shaped disks of dust that have been seen girdling some dying stars.

10.   The Harvard-Smithsonian team studied several dying stars, known as novae.