Sentences with phrase «brighter than host»

SN 2006gy had a luminosity (or intrinsic brightness) equal to that of some 50 billion suns — around 10 times brighter than host galaxy NGC 1260 — before beginning a slow decline.

Although GRB 000131, like other gamma - ray bursts, appears to have taken place in a remote «early galaxy» (or «sub-galactic clumps» of stars) that is smaller than today's luminous galaxies, astronomers found it difficult to detect that extremely dim, sub-galactic clump of stars even with the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observed fading of the afterglow indicated that the maximum brightness of the gamma - ray emission was explosion was at least 10,000 times brighter than its host galaxy.

Not exact matches

To reach the potentially habitable planet Proxima b, these «photogravitational» assists counterintuitively require first sending the light sail swooping blisteringly close to the bright, sunlike stars Alpha Centauri A and B — even though they are nearly two trillion kilometers farther from us than Proxima b's smaller, dimmer host star, Proxima Centauri.

Scientists already knew that Jupiter sported an aurora in its northern hemisphere — one that is permanent, large enough to swallow Earth, and hundreds of times brighter than the ephemeral glows our planet hosts at each pole.

Bright spots in the map include the Crab Nebula, which hosts a radiation - spewing stellar corpse called a pulsar, and several blazars, violent active galaxies where colossal black holes accelerate particles to more than 99 % the speed of light.

GRB 000131 was at least 10,000 times brighter than its remote host galaxy (more at GRB 000131 and Bloom et al, 2001).

By surveying the whole sky, we will find systems that orbit stars 10 times closer and 100 times brighter than those found by Kepler — opening up new possibilities for measuring planet masses and densities, studying their atmospheres, characterizing their host stars, and establishing the full nature of the systems in which the planets reside.

In 2017, the building serves as host to a vast internet server farm, but its museum status found renewed life as the location of The Contemporary's site - specific installation: The Ground by New York - and Richmond - based artist Michael Jones McKean, where whiteness, bright lights, theatricality, and obfuscation read more like a New York gallery than a contemporary Baltimore installation.

Several sources suggest the area, which hosts the fingerprint scanner appears brighter than the rest of the display.