Sentences with phrase «while halo stars»

Not exact matches

In addition, these stars are not orbiting the galactic center inside the Milky Way's spiral arms like the Sun, but they originate from the spherical Galactic halo that surrounds the Milky Way's main disk, while briefly intersecting it in their long, elliptical orbits around the center.

While the bright part of the nebula is of about 65 arc seconds in diameter (more accurately, the «cork» is about 42x87», the «wings» 157x87»), this nebula is surrounded by a faint halo covering a region of 290 arc seconds in diameter (Millikan, 1974); this material was probably ejected in the form of stellar winds from the central star when it was still in the Red Giant phase of evolution.

Half the star's mass falls into the black hole, while the other half shoots away at high speed, shocking gas that lies in the halo around the Milky Way's disc until it emits gamma rays.

When SagDEG will be disrupted after the current encounter, M54 and the other at least three globulars of this dwarf (Arp 2, Terzan 7 and Terzan 8, which are all much fainter than M54) will be the «remnants», while the other stars will be spread over the galactic halo, or escape as intergalactic travelers.

While The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi raised the stakes and reach of the Empire, Star Wars never managed to impress the same hopelessness upon its audience that Legendary difficulty could to a Halo player.