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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Six months from now, we will have 24 hours of daylight and the moon will be a pale disk in the blue sky, growing brighter each month as we move back toward winter again.

No space probe or telescope built by humans has ever escaped the Milky Way to turn back and take a portrait; because we are embedded in our galaxy's disk, we can only see it as a bright band of stars across the sky.

Theorists speculate that so - called quasi-periodic oscillation was caused by bright blobs in the black hole's accretion disk, made up of gas that slowly spirals towards the hole.

Scientists observe coronal mass ejections using a type of instrument called a coronagraph, in which a solid disk blocks the sun's bright face, revealing the sun's tenuous atmosphere, called the corona.

The western side (tilted closer to the Earth) appears brighter in polarized light, while in total intensity the eastern side appears slightly brighter, particularly just to the east of the widest apparent separation points of the disk.

This visible - light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake - shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy.

Reconciling this complex and apparently - contradictory pattern of brighter and darker regions required a major overhaul of our understanding of this circumstellar disk.

Massive numbers of comets may even produce the bright debris disks seen around other stars.

In addition to accretion disks, black holes also have winds and incredibly bright jets erupting from them along their rotation axis, shooting out matter and radiation at nearly the speed of light.

Cygnus X-1 was found as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an accretion disk around an invisible object.

It's also possible, he says, that the magnetic field is sucking power out of the accretion disk, making it appear less bright.

Bañados was looking in particular for quasars — some of the brightest objects in the universe, that consist of a supermassive black hole surrounded by swirling, accreting disks of matter.

The accretion disks around supermassive black holes (black holes with masses millions of times that of the Sun) are some of the brightest objects in the Universe.

But rather than a uniform field of random ejections, they saw bright jets of atoms shooting together from the rim of the disk, like miniature fireworks.

The team found that bright stars are mainly located in the inner disk of M81, while most of the young stars in outlying concentrations are fainter and have similar luminosity distributions as that of the stellar stream between M81 and NGC 3077.

Spirals have most of their bright stars, gas, and obscuring dust in a thin disk.

«Astronomers know star formation has just completed in this region, called Upper Scorpius, because roughly a quarter of the stars still have bright protoplanetary disks,» David said.

In 2010 we began a near - infrared (NIR) spectral survey of bright debris disks with reported IRAS excesses and optically resolved disks.

The bright spiral disk may also be surrounded by a much fainter, outer ring of stars, possibly stripped from at least one, former satellite galaxy.

The problem, of course, stems from the fact that with the exception of active black holes — which are surrounded with a bright accretion disk — it is kind of hard to hunt down objects that do not allow even light to escape their gravitational pull.

But that doesn't mean astronomers can't see them; bright X-ray light streams from the superhot disk of material spiraling into a black hole's mouth.

With this, two new phenomena have been discovered: the fast flares in the early light curve seen from days 9 - 15 (which have no proposed explanation) and the optical dips seen out of eclipse from days 41 - 61 (likely caused by raised rims of the accretion disk occulting the bright inner regions of the disk as seen over specific orbital phases).

Abstract: We present $ H$ - band scattered light imaging of a bright debris disk around the A0 star HD 36546 obtained from the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system with data recorded by the HiCIAO camera using the vector vortex coronagraph.

M82 is remarkable for its bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds, and fiery - looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out of its central regions.

The dark disks are seen in these images because they are silhouetted against the bright backdrop of the hot gas of the Orion nebula.

At these wavelengths, astronomers can peer at the disks of gas and dust around newborn stars, see into star - forming clouds, and observe early galaxies that are bright in submillimetre wavelengths but obscured by dust in optical light.

Indeed, GRBs appear to emit produce even more energy than supernovae or even quasars (which are energetically bright accretion disks and bi-polar jets around supermassive black holes that are most commonly found in the active nuclei of some distant galaxies and possibly even in the pre-galaxy period after the Big Bang).

Seen in infrared light, the faint starlight gives way to the glowing bright patterns of dust found throughout the galaxy's disk (Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / J.

«This lack of collisionality distinguishes the Sagittarius A * accretion disk from brighter and more radiative disks that orbit other black holes,» the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) explained in the statement.

As a result, some accretion disks around supermassive black holes are incredibly bright, and can outshine all the billions of stars in their host galaxy put together.

The separate disks lay so perfectly that the necklace seems to drape along the lines of your collarbones, and the bright yellow hue is just the right amount of sass.

The first sign of trouble appears in the Windows Store's Spotlight section: Are apps like «Periodic Table» and «Disk Falcon» really the best and brightest Microsoft has to offer one month before launch?

We find that most of the solar cycle variation in the total solar irradiance can be accounted for by the absolute magnetic field strength on the solar disk, if fields associated with dark and bright regions are considered separately.