Sentences with phrase «bright disk»

Quasars are bright disks of gas and dust swirling around supermassive black holes.

But with the moon blocking the sun's bright disk, the corona comes into view.

«We thought that young stars, about 1 million years old, would have larger, brighter disks and that older stars from 10 million to 100 million years old would have fainter ones,» Rieke says.

Chasing the moon's shadow will let the planes stay in totality — the region where the sun's bright disk is completely blocked by the moon — for a combined 400 seconds (6.67 minutes).

The star belongs to the Milky Way's stellar halo, the ancient population that surrounds the galaxy's bright disk.

The bright disk that usually lights everything, burns skin, feeds plants and tells animals when to sleep will become a blank circle, surrounded by the shifting haze of its atmosphere.

The brighter the disk, the more powerful the jets — cementing the idea that accretion disks and jets are linked.

In 1984, Beta Pictoris became the second star known to be surrounded by a bright disk of dust and debris.

But the glow from that gas also limits the black hole's growth: The bright disk's photons push away fresh material.

The faster a quasar eats, the brighter its disk glows.

In 1611, less than two years after Galileo began examining the skies, German astronomer Christoph Scheiner spotted something silhouetted against the bright disk of the sun.

This illustration represents the brighter disk inferred from 2004 data that was collected with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Like other spiral galaxies, the Milky Way Galaxy, has a bright disk of stars with sweeping arms of conspicously younger, brighter, and bluer stars enveloped in gas and dust that curve around its center like the arms of a huge pinwheel.

A coronagraph is designed to look at the solar atmosphere by blocking out the bright disk of the sun.

In the following video by OccultDave on YouTube, over a period of about 16 minutes, Io (the dot to the far - right) dims dramatically as Ganymede (the dot in the middle, next to the bright disk of Jupiter) blocks the sunlight:

«The brighter disks are collisional and can be modeled by formulas dating from the 1990s, which treat the plasma as an electrically conducting fluid.»