Sentences with phrase «brightest known star»

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The Stanford professor knows the academic research, but many of his insights are drawn from the hundreds of conversations he has had with business leaders, including some of Silicon Valley's brightest stars.

In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

Jesus also said he is the «bright morning star» which means he was the man described in Isaiah 14:9 - 20 as the man whom the whole world will shockingly know as one who was punished by God for claiming to be god (Isa.14: 12 - 16)

Danielle Dimovski, known in barbeque circles as Diva Q, is a bright star of «Que from the frozen white north.

Add Sonogo to the group of underwhelming youngsters, (we knew that one already) and our stars of the future aren't looking so bright.

Nobody knows how you bright stars would adapt and how long they would take to form a unit.

Mike «s demise is coming just as the industry is still mourning the demise of two of his brightest stars, Peter Onwuzurike also known Dede One Day who was of the English movie genre and Sikiru Adesina popularly called Arakangudu who is of the Yoruba movie genre.

The leader of the immigration revolt — on an amendment, remember, which even the home secretary Theresa May had said was illegal under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights — was Dominic Raab, a bright international lawyer who knew exactly what he was doing, and was one of the stars of the 2010 intake.

Black holes gobble up some matter and launch the rest away in powerful jets, scattering atoms within and between galaxies; pairs of neutron stars, also targets of Advanced LIGO, may ultimately trigger gamma - ray bursts, among the brightest and most energetic explosions known in the universe.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.

But before telescopes for prospective exoplanet - hunting missions can be designed, astronomers must know if there is a fundamental limit to their ability to see a tiny, dim planet next to a bright star when the system is shrouded in dust.

No one yet knows whether any planets orbit Alpha Centauri A or B, but because both stars are so much larger and brighter than Proxima, their habitable zones are much further out, allowing any as - yet - undiscovered worlds to be more easily seen.

LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA — Something is orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut in the constellation known as the Southern Fish, but no one knows exactly what it is.

The first part of Michael Bakich's work may be regarded as a book of lists: of the present constellations, asterisms (star clusters) contained within them, brightest stars, nearest stars, «extinct» constellations, new constellations and the men that created them (as far as I know, no woman has named a constellation) and star names.

It is orbited by a small group of bright stars and, in addition, an enigmatic dusty cloud, known as G2, has been tracked on its fall towards the black hole over the last few years.

The bright star embedded in dark clouds at the centre of this image is known as Herschel 36.

A lot of the techniques he used to detect the transient bright spots produced when massive stars explode could theoretically also be used to spot the cosmic show produced by two colliding neutron stars, he knew.

The stars may be passing through a stage of stellar evolution that lasts no more than a few tens of thousands of years, the scientists say — a phase between red giants (about 30 or 40 times the size of our sun) and blue subdwarfs (stars about one - fifth the size of our sun but seven times hotter and 70 times brighter).

Actually if you read his notebooks they're actually quite funny, because he says, you know, «I was fishing one day and then I looked up and there was an unusually bright star in the constellation Cassiopeia, and because I have known all the stars of the sky since childhood, you know, I immediately» — right, so again, this idea that he's just a little bit full of himself, I think.

So Donald Olson, this forensic astronomer, comes into the picture and says, «Well, you know, that's true, there aren't any really bright stars in Cassiopeia today, but we were talking about the events of 1572.

To the 140 big, bright stars that were known in the nebula previously, CCCP researchers have now added nearly 100 more.

Most of what we know about MU69 comes from pictures taken during occultations — when the little rock passes between a bright star and our telescopes.

A bright, narrow inner ring of dust is already known to encircle the star, based on much earlier Hubble images.

All the stars I mentioned are relatively close by and pretty bright, and some of them are already known to have planets.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of Delta Trianguli.

Our nearest known stellar neighbors lie in a triple - star system that has been measured at just over four light - years from Earth, where Alpha Centauri A is the brightest star in Constellation Centaurus (more).

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of HR 483 AB.

Also known as Alpha Lyrae, Vega is located within 25.3 light - years (ly) away from our Sun, Sol, as the brightest star in Constellation Lyra, the Lyre or Harp.

The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is one of the brightest star clusters visible in the northern hemisphere.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of 54 Piscium.

«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.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of Capella.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of Upsilon Andromedae.

Possibly known to some observers as Lucida (or «luz» for the brightest star in any particular constellation) although it is slightly dimmer than Alpha Hydri, Beta Hydri is clearly visible with the naked eye as the nearest conspicuous star to the South Pole, about 12 degrees distant.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of Iota Persei.

Here we report observations of the bright star HD 195689 (also known as KELT - 9), which reveal a close - in (orbital period of about 1.48 days) transiting giant planet, KELT - 9b.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of HD 189733 AB.

A bright, narrow inner ring of dust is already known to encircle the star, based on much earlier Hubble photographs.

Sirius A is a bright, nearby star with no known debris.

KELT - 3b is the third transiting exoplanet discovered by the KELT survey, and is orbiting one of the 20 brightest known transiting planet host stars, making it a promising candidate for detailed characterization studies.

Here we analyse this unique dataset to determine absolute physical parameters (most importan... ▽ More HD 181068 is the brighter of the two known triply eclipsing hierarchical triple stars in the Kepler field.

So, now that we know a tiny rocky world orbiting a tiny star 39 light - years away can support its own atmosphere, the future could be bright for finding evidence of alien biology on super-Earths orbiting red dwarf stars.

Star map (by unknown artist) with «trade routes» — derived from drawings and best - fit stars by Betty Hill, Marjorie Fish, and Jeffrey Kretsch — can be compared with a ChView map centered on Zeta2 that includes our Sun, Sol, and other bright stars now known to be located within 40 light - years.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of 47 Ursae Majoris.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of 79 Ceti.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of 44 Boötis 3.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of 15 Sagittae.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of Gacrux.

The following table includes all star systems known to be located within 10 light - years (ly), plus more bright stars within 10 to 20 ly, of 70 Virginis.