Sentences with phrase «nebula into»

By analyzing results from three telescopes, the research team discovered two opposing forces have stretched the nebula into its strange shape.

A dark ring of dust and gas circling the star (dark bands, center), material that may one day coalesce into a planetary system, acts like a belt, cinching the nebula into an hourglass shape.

The turning of a nebula into a star may somewhat resemble the change.

Not exact matches

At that point, it will partly collapse, blow its outer shells of plasmatic gas into space, turn into a white dwarf, and begin to form a planetary nebula in its surroundings.

In contrast, Immanuel Kant and Pierre de Laplace argued that planetary development was part of a normal process to be expected in the life of almost every star: they assumed the young sun was surrounded by a thin lens - shaped gaseous envelope (solar nebula) which later condensed into planets.

«Inside a teardrop of glass I've formed a nebula of swirling blue, green and yellow clouds which spiral down into the centre of the pendant» Such a beautiful description, the process involved in Glenn's work is really fascinating, (not to mention educational).

This nebula calm down jar is a perfect mix of calming sensory play and science, all wrapped up into a fun project!

A further zoom brings into view green, spidery NGC 604, one of the largest nebulas in M33 and home to more than 200 newly formed stars.

Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close - up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star.

The neutron star at the very center of the Crab Nebula has about the same mass as the sun but compressed into an incredibly dense sphere that is only a few miles across.

Over the next thousand years the nebula is expected to evolve into a fully - fledged planetary nebula.

But new ALMA observations of the Orion Nebula complex provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth.

In March of 2006, astronomers reported an 80 light year - long nebula near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Double Helix Nebula, which is, as the name implies, twisted into a double spiral nebula near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Double Helix Nebula, which is, as the name implies, twisted into a double spiral Nebula, which is, as the name implies, twisted into a double spiral shape.

In the old view, the planets formed in an orderly manner, born from a swirling disk of gas and dust, known as the solar nebula, into stable orbits at their present locations from the sun.

Astrophysicists have taken a new and detailed look at the blazing heart of the Crab Nebula, the remnants of a star that exploded into view nearly 1000 years ago.

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula.

Meanwhile, ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a deep look into the Lobster Nebula, capturing the many hot, bright stars that influence the object's colour and shape (eso1226).

City - size planetesimals — rocky microworlds that clumped together in the solar nebula — smashed into our planet's surface at incredible velocities and seeped down to Earth's iron core, depositing yet more iron.

Its brightness is thought to arise from a pulsar at its centre that sends electrons slamming into the nebula.

An injection of aluminum - 26 into the nebula that formed the solar system could have influenced the amount of water on Earth.

So it was Mädler, not von Humboldt, who first referred to nebulae as Weltinseln, or world islands, and Mitchel who first rendered that phrase into «island universes.»

In a paper published online today by Science, a group reports the growth of dust grains into significantly larger particles in the circumstellar dust and gas disks of the Orion Nebula.

Meet Nebula Genomics, a new company that Church announced yesterday in a «white paper» that spells out how this Brangelina can lead to a better understanding of the causes of diseases, improve drug development, and, ultimately, tap into «a genomic data market worth billions of dollars.»

As the nebula cooled, silicate material and metallic material tended to condense into small particles.

They were not interested in taking more pictures of the Horsehead; instead they were after spectra — readings of the light broken down into their constituent wavelengths, which reveal the chemical makeup of the nebula.

The nebula was created by the star, which is losing part of its mass out into the surrounding space, forming a cloud of gas and dust as the material cools.

In actuality the blackness of space is absolute, where I just threw these more romantic nebulae type images into the context.

«What happens to change these spherical AGB stars into non-spherical nebulae, with two jets shooting out in opposite directions?»

SIRTF will also be able to examine the birthplaces and cemeteries of stars — the clusters and nebulas that are created from and ultimately explode into clouds of gas and dust.

Soon it collides with the slower, cooler gas ahead of it, piling it up into a bright, dense cloud called a planetary nebula.

Ordinary 7x35 binoculars, and especially 7x50s, will reveal star clusters and intriguing nebulas crowded into the region between the tail and the galactic core.

The final stages of life for a star like our Sun result in the star blowing its outer layers out into the surrounding space, forming objects known as planetary nebulae in a wide range of beautiful and striking shapes.

Meanwhile, at right angles to the plane, diffuse jets of particles blast into the nebula from the pulsar's rotation poles.

The bubble is a nebula with a clutch of massive, hot stars at its center that is sending waves of matter smashing into the surrounding interstellar material, generating a glowing structure, which looks like a ring from our perspective.

According to this model, the violent wind that creates a planetary nebula is also the engine that transforms a bloated red giant into the burnt - out cinder of a white dwarf, a metamorphosis common to all stars of low and intermediate mass — stars up to eight times more massive than the sun.

Like other stars of its ilk, the sun will unfurl into nature's premier work of art: a planetary nebula

This vivid image of the Eagle nebula's spirelike columns has graced the covers of astronomy magazines and has been made into a hit poster.

Use whatever you've got — telescope or binoculars — and watch the nebula metamorphose into a grand, wing - shaped interstellar cloud.

The Calabash nebula (bottom left), illustrates what happens when high - speed winds of stellar gas (yellow) create shock waves as they ram into clouds of interstellar hydrogen and nitrogen (blue).

That's because one way Kuiper belt objects might have formed in situ, Parker says, is under an emerging model of planet formation in which turbulences and vortexes in the protoplanetary nebula allow many tiny particles to coalesce extremely rapidly into big ones.

Astronomers use the pulsar's age and spin to calculate how much energy it has injected into the nebula.

Gas and dust clouds in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars.

He also hopes to explore what happens to chondrules once they are launched into the solar nebula.

Meanwhile, much of the material that once made up the outer layers of the star is released into the surrounding area, and may form something called a planetary nebula (which, despite the name, doesn't actually have anything to do with planets).

Eventually, Stars Aa and Ab will lose much of their current mass, from intensified stellar winds that eventually puff out their outer gas envelopes of hydrogen and helium (and lesser amounts of higher elements such as carbon and oxygen) into interstellar space as planetary nebulae.

In fact, the researchers found that chondrules were most likely created by the collision of such moon - sized planetary embryos: These bodies smashed together with such violent force that they melted a fraction of their material, and shot a molten plume out into the solar nebula.

These gaseous clouds, called planetary nebulae, are created when stars in the last stages of life cast off their outer layers of material into space.

The spectacular structure of the planetary nebula contains the outer layers of a star that were expelled into interstellar space.

The stars which are even older have dissipated into a more diffuse background; this includes intermediate population I stars, older star clusters and the younger representatives of the planetary nebulae.

The RCW catalog breaks this up into the Lagoon nebula proper (RCW 146a), the much fainter Gum 74b nebula next to it (RCW 146b) and the three smaller Sharpless nebulae Sh 2 - 29, Sh 2 - 31 and Sh 2 - 32 further below the galactic plane (RCW 146c).