Sentences with phrase «caused by the star»

Gamma ray telescopes can detect light from the most violent explosions in the universe, probably caused by stars collapsing into black holes.

In addition to the first set of shifts caused by the star's wobble, they found a second set of shifts, much fainter and with higher redshifts and blueshifts.

One of the team's achievements was to separate the signal caused by the star's activity from the signal produced by the planet.

At the time, astronomers thought this might be caused by the star having two planets with similar orbits.

If a pulsar is in orbit around a massive companion star, its pulses of light will follow the space curve caused by that star.

Typically, the microlens brightening caused by the star will last about a month and the brightening caused by the presence of an exoplanet will only last a few hours.

The halo originates from galactic «fountains» caused by star formation in the disk and a super-wind coming from the galaxy's core.

Was it caused by the stars» alignment or the presence of «bad air»?

Not exact matches

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

The transit method of detecting planets that Kepler scientists use involves looking for dips in a star's brightness, caused by a planet blocking a fraction of the starlight (similar to how the moon eclipses the sun).

Finally, in a nominal GDP targeting regime, a decline in r - star caused by slower trend growth automatically leads to a higher rate of trend inflation, providing a larger buffer to respond to economic downturns.

«Things» were «moving» in this early stage of the universe, and this motion by different «objects» produced angluar motion in different directions, causing the first stars and galaxies to rotate in different directions.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

The deal between Li Ka - shing and Murdoch was largely motivated by the pressure on his network caused by the announcement of Turner (CNN which spends some US$ 15 million to develop production capacity in Asia), Time - Warner's Home Box Office (on cable in some eight Asian countries), Capital Cities / ABC ESPN (the sports network), the Discovery Channel, and Hong Kong - based Television Broadcasting Inc. to compete with Star TV in 1994 after the launch of a Chinese communications satellite.

So now my childhood friend has become a national star, everywhere from Bakesale Betty in Oakland, CA, to David Chang's Fuku (a mini-chain that he all but admits was inspired by Chick - fil - A) in NYC to Danny Meyer's many Shake Shacks, where the debut of the Chick»n Shack caused the social - media version of a riot.

Looks like you've been starving You've got those hungry eyes [we call that hangry now] You could use some sugar [caaaaake] «Cause your levels ain't right [this happens to oven temperature sometimes] I'm a five - star [there are only three stars] Michelin [the Jean - Georges of music] A Kobe flown in [hopefully not scammed by fake kobe] You want what I'm cooking, boy

It was arguably this inability to call on their top stars often enough, and the disruption caused by them coming in and out of the team, which rocked City's challenge this term.

«But just as every season seems to be full of the same old issues for Arsenal in general, is the failure of certain Arsenal stars to play to their potential on regular basis perhaps caused by the same thing (person), Wenger?»

NEGATIVES: I'm not looking for a scapegoat, I'm not trying to bash anyone but I think arsenal pay ozil enough to at least pretend to give a fk, honestly we would've tore city a new one if Mozart or ox played ahead of ozil, I think we need to realise we made a mistake signing ozil, lets cut our losses and develop the wilshere and ramsey partnership by giving them a five star anchorman with the ozil money, cause flamini and arteta are extremely average, arsene needs to learn how to sub

He negotiates his own contracts, a quirk that caused one Italian agent to harrumph that the German star signs deals shortchanging himself by 80 %.

SADDEST TRADES The 49ers, dealing for Louie Kelcher and Manu Tuiasosopo, trying to fill up the gaping hole in their middle caused by noseguard Pete Kugler's departure to the USFL's Philly Stars.

Wright made the All - Star team in 2016, but a shoulder injury caused by pinch - running ended his campaign.

The Argentine footballing legend was involved in a game that featured numerous stars both current and retired and set up a goal for Roma icon Francesco Totti to provide a sparkle to the night, all for a good cause in an event organised by Pope Francis.

Do not pull your Boingo by any part of the star, or any other design, it will cause damage.

The greatest strength of the Five Stars movement is its network of genuinely motivated citizens who mobilize consensus by championing popular causes like anti-nuclear campaigns, direct political participation, renewable energy reform and the end of conflicts of interest between the public and the private sectors.

The state Conservative Party is so far sticking by Hoffman, but GOP leaders are wondering if the lack of national attention on NY - 23 in the upcoming general election could mean last year's Tea Party cause célèbre no longer has sufficient star power to carry their banner into the race.

Utterly gratuitous photo of the Extra Grumpy Cat When Barack Obama crossed the nerd - culture streams in his Jedi Mind Meld moment last week, he created great joy on the internets: by combining the Star Wars Jedi Mind Trick and the Star Trek Vulcan Mind Meld into a single entity, he not only caused...

The governors of New York and New Jersey planned a cover story to contain political fallout from the massive traffic jams caused by lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, the government's star witness testified Tuesday.

Will Smith stars in the film «Concussion,» which highlights brain injuries caused by football.

[1] Most of the exoplanets currently known were discovered using indirect techniques — such as radial velocity variations of the host star, or the dip in brightness of the star caused by a transiting exoplanet.

This event also provides the strongest evidence yet that short duration gamma - ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars.

This configuration — plus the particularly high turbulence in the galactic centre caused by the high concentration of stars — may be increasing the energy of the cosmic rays, says the team.

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.

On August 17, 2017, the LIGO and VIRGO gravitational - wave observatories combined to locate the faint ripples in spacetime caused by the merger of two superdense neutron stars.

Astronomers spy one of the brightest and longest gamma - ray bursts ever seen, caused by a black hole swallowing a star.

Stars many times more massive than our sun often end their lives with a super-nova, a cataclysmic explosion caused by the collapse of the star's heavy core.

Astronomers have long been able to measure the movement of stars in our «line of sight» (i.e. the movement towards or away from us) by measuring the redshift, which is caused by the Doppler effect.

To avoid being fooled, Kepler must be able to distinguish between natural variations in a star's light and the dimming caused by planetary transits.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

Now he has the sensitive equipment he needs: NASA's Kepler space telescope, which stares at stars and looks for subtle dips in brightness caused by planets crossing in front of the stars and blocking some of their light.

Some candidates can be checked further using another technique that looks for «wobbles» in the star caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting body, but Kepler 452 b is too distant and small for that.

H II regions like RCW 106 are clouds of hydrogen gas that are being ionised by the intense starlight of scorching - hot, young stars, causing them to glow and display weird and wonderful shapes.

The unusual fading of an oddball star is more likely caused by either clouds of dust or an abnormal cycle of brightening and dimming, two new papers suggest.

Astronomers detected the planets using the Kepler telescope, which measures the slight dimming of a star's light caused by orbiting planets passing in front of it.

The hardest part was simulating dips in brightness of 84 parts per million, the amount of dimming caused by an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star.

The Kepler telescope, launched in March 2009, detects exoplanets by looking for a periodic dimming in stellar brightness, caused by a planet transiting (passing in front of) a star.

The planets were discovered by the transit method, which detects potential planets as their orbits cross in front of their star and cause a very tiny but periodic dimming of the star's brightness.

They think the early outbursts from SN 2009ip were caused by two large stars brushing against each other.

Seeing transits is not enough; periodic dips in a star's light could be caused by a small companion star too dim to detect directly.

The two main methods — measuring the wobble of stars caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet and measuring the periodic dimming of a star as a planet passes in front — both favor big planets in close orbits.