Sentences with phrase «by nearby stars»

Re 51 Tom P — watched the video; and I agree that the sun does wobble around the center of mass of the solar system; the center of mass itself is not tending to wobble around the sun because conservation of momentum applies to the solar system as a whole (except of course for the forces applied to it by nearby stars, the rest of the galaxy, etc, but those are not varying so fast and so the center of mass should generally be moving along rather smoothly on the same timescale as planetary motions).

Parts of the Orion Molecular cloud are illuminated by nearby stars and therefore glow an eerie green color.

«We're watching Sgr A * capture hot gas ejected by nearby stars, and funnel it in towards its event horizon.»

Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

In previous studies, it was predicted that red - edge position on exoplanets should be decided by the radiation spectrum by nearby stars.

Detected with the newly upgraded Very Large Array of telescopes in New Mexico, the maser appears when interstellar methanol molecules get heated up by nearby stars.

According to a summary of Barstow's talk released by the Royal Astronomical Society, the most probable explanation for the missing gas is that the area was swept clear of material by a nearby star that went supernova within the last few million years.

Not exact matches

TESS is expected to perform an all - sky survey focused on finding transiting rocky planets around nearby stars, planets that could then be studied in further detail by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which would launch no sooner than 2018.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

SPHERE's main goal is to find and characterise giant exoplanets orbiting nearby stars by direct imaging [1].

But inventories of the stars and gas in the nearby universe have revealed only about half the matter that is predicted by cosmological models.

Based on various lines of indirect evidence, astronomers are fairly sure that the sun is surrounded by a huge cloud of dormant comets — trillions of them, probably — that move in lazy orbits extending halfway to the nearby stars.

The challenge for Kepler — or more specifically, for Jenkins's software — is to tease out brightness changes caused by the passage of a planet and to distinguish them from all the normal stellar variations, such as flares and star spots (the stellar equivalent of sunspots) or even nearby eclipsing stars.

Earth and the other planets of our solar system suffer occasional impacts when comets are disturbed from their orbits around the sun by the gravity of nearby stars and gas clouds.

These opaque blobs resemble drops of ink floating in a strawberry cocktail, their whimsical shapes sculpted by powerful radiation coming from the nearby brilliant young stars.

The planet was found with the radial velocity method, a planet - hunting technique that relies upon slight variations in the velocity of a star to determine the gravitational pull exerted by nearby planets that are too faint to observe directly with a telescope.

To begin with, they orbited close to the plane of the ecliptic in the same direction as the planets, but their orbits were deformed by the galaxy's tidal force and by interactions with nearby stars, gradually becoming more inclined and forming a more or less spherical reservoir,» Morais said.

If two neutron stars were to merge in a nearby galaxy, the resulting wave would squish and stretch the space - time near Earth by about a millionth of the diameter of an atom as it passed through us.

At least one source of these bright, brief blasts of radio energy may be a young neutron star assisted by a nearby massive black hole, new research suggests.

We usually use it to look for very faint planets in the close vicinity of nearby stars, by painstakingly observing them one by one,» said Pueyo.

They picked up the gas by its microwave emissions — suspecting that radiation from massive stars nearby had ionised the gas.

By the time Webb is operational, Clampin says, another NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), slated for launch in 2017, will already be producing a short list of other potentially habitable rocky planets around nearby small stars.

The three toepads visible to modern telescopes, as well as the claw - like regions in the nearby Lobster Nebula, are actually regions of gas — predominantly hydrogen — energised by the light of brilliant newborn stars.

More wildly, future iterations of Sprites could become Breakthrough's hoped - for «StarChips» — spacecraft integrated with gossamer - thin, meter - wide «lightsails» that would travel at 20 percent the speed of light to Alpha Centauri or other nearby stars, propelled by high - powered pulses of photons from a gargantuan ground - based laser array.

By using the full power of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer an international team of astronomers has discovered exozodiacal light close to the habitable zones around nine nearby stars.

A giant black hole ripped apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to research led by the University of New Hampshire.

They believe that all planets start off aligned and then some of them are knocked crooked by the gravitational pull of other planets or nearby stars.

Its outer hydrogen envelope becomes more loosely bound and vulnerable to gravitational stripping, or a type of stellar cannibalism, by the nearby companion star.

(Even if it bulges at the equator because of a three - way squeeze of forces created by its own gravity and the influence of both a star and a nearby larger planet.)

One possible explanation for the newfound rebel planets is that they have been pulled out of their normal orbits by a nearby stellar companion to their central star.

To spot the black hole's event horizon, a team of astronomers — led by Michael Garcia and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — watched what happened as a black hole stole gas away from a nearby star.

While the HARPS team monitors nearby stars for telltale wobbles caused by orbiting planets, Kepler scientists search a wide field of faraway stars, watching for planets that become silhouetted against their suns.

The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.

It could be that NGC 1052 - DF2 was once a placid mass of gas and has been recently perturbed by another unseen galaxy nearby, sparking star formation.

HARPS allows for measurements of radial velocities of stars, which can be affected by the presence of nearby planets, to be taken with the highest accuracy currently available.

This star's capricious behavior appears to be fueled by a nearby companion star and may give new insights into the birth of millisecond pulsars.

But that pace aligns perfectly with those of typical nearby stars — suggesting «Oumuamua might be merely a piece of galactic «driftwood» washed up by celestial currents.

Now, new observations show that light from a nearby neutron star is significantly polarized, reports a team led by Roberto Mignani, an astronomer at the Institute for Spatial Astrophysics in Milan, Italy, reports.

We can tell things like which galaxy the waves come from, if there are other stars nearby, and whether or not the gravitational waves are followed by visible radiation after a few hours or days.»

Vigelius and Melatos believe that such waves could even be observable by the existing LIGO detector, depending on how massive the mountains on nearby neutron stars have grown.

FUSE can detect intervening gas by analyzing the incoming light from nearby stars.

These rare systems — only a few tens were known until recently — were thought to have had their outer coats of stars ripped away by the gravity of other, larger galaxies as they passed nearby, a theory supported by the fact that they were usually found in the centers of large clusters of galaxies.

Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.

A speeding star may have been flung away by a black hole lurking unnoticed in a nearby galaxy, new research suggests.

A nearby star, Beta Pictoris, is surrounded by two dusty discs — not one — a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals.

Scientists can detect black holes by looking at the motion of stars and gas nearby as well as matter accreted from its surroundings.

«Supernova collides with nearby star, taking astrophysicists by surprise.»

Although the Keck was unable to pick out a nearby star, the computer simulations suggest that the dust stream is probably shaped by colliding stellar winds.

Two nearby stars, Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti, both about 12 light - years away, were the candidates for Project Ozma, the first search with a radio telescope for extraterrestrial intelligence, conducted by one of us (Drake) in 1960.

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.