Sentences with phrase «bright blue stars»
The small smattering of bright blue stars in the upper left of this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life and death of stars.
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In this image it is a region of contrasts, with thick dark trails set against the glare of bright blue stars at the centre.
The beautiful bright blue stars of NGC 206 betray its youth - but close, systematic studies of variable stars in and around NGC 206 will also accurately reveal its distance.
Encircling the galaxies are young, bright blue star clusters and pinkish clouds of glowing hydrogen where infant stars are being born.
The brightest part of this galaxy is known as NGC 2363 - it is a huge HII region (emission nebula) where a lot of bright blue stars have formed.
FAR OUT The gravity of the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149 bent the light from a bright blue star (one of the faint points of light just above and to the left of the super bright central star in this image), letting it reach us from 9 billion light - years away.
Most of the bright blue stars in the image are probably recently formed stars located in the foreground, in the galaxy's disk.
Detailed analyses of light from the object suggest that, as seen from Earth, the binary system is seen edge on, with each bright blue star eclipsing the other on a regular basis.
In 1971, astronomers discovered that the x-rays came from the direction of a bright blue star whirling around a mysterious dark object.
Age can be determined by color, NASA notes, with the red color of NGC 2937's indicating older stars while the bright blue stars of NGC 2936 indicate young stars.
Below Aldebaran is the bright blue star Rigel, located in the constellation of Orion - the Hunter.
The bright blue star tile was imported from Morocco.