Sentences with phrase «atmospheres of red giant»

A planetary nebula is the detached outer atmosphere of a red giant star, which is one of the final stages in a medium - sized star's lifecycle.

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A thin shell of hydrogen continues to burn, heating the star's atmosphere and causing it to expand into a so - called red giant, whose radius can be 1000 times larger than the original star's.

Humanity has just gained its best - ever views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to swallow Earth whole that has raged for centuries in the gas - giant planet's atmosphere.

Finally, such observations might help to envisage the distant future of our planet, when, in 3 or 4 billion years, the Sun will become a red giant and will circulate in our atmosphere making life impossible on Earth.

The outer layers of the star — the stellar «atmosphere» — absorb this excess and swell outward into the characteristic distended figure of a red giant.

Water masers also line the jets that Hiroshi Imai of the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe has traced to W43A, a red giant that appears to be on the verge of shedding its atmosphere.

BD +48 740, a red giant they observed using the 9.2 - meter Hobby - Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas, appears to have the fumes of a scorched planet in its atmosphere.