Sentences with phrase «close pair of stars»

Not exact matches

Luckily, I don't have to bore you with my method of picking All - Stars because I've done that already in in a pair of posts that were as enjoyable as a nice, close shave from a Gillette razor, mm - hmmm.

Also, last May Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University began training a small telescope in Chile on Alpha Centauri, a pair of sunlike stars that are the closest ones to Earth.

It has been suggested that they grow through the merger of pairs of binary stars but, as the team explains today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, current understanding of binary mergers can not explain this number of giants in close proximity.

A bit more than half of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way travel in pairs, nearly all of them orbiting so close that they can't be distinguished individually except by powerful telescopes.

The stellar system closest to Earth consists of three stars: the closely orbiting pair of Alpha Centauri A and B, and an outlier called Proxima Centauri.

The pair is called an optical double if the two stars seem to be close together only because of their alignment as seen from earth.

On the other hand, the wide binary pairs Aab and Bab are separated by an «average» distance of about 21.2 AUs (of a semi-major axis of 2.533» at 27.3 ly) in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.412) of 59.9 years, so that the two star pairs get as close as 12.5 AUs and as far away as 39.9 AUs (Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1996; revising earlier earlier estimates, including Mason et al, 1995).

Previously, I focused on close binary star systems, mostly W UMa - types, and explored the evolutionary track of these types of pairs.

As the pair of neutron stars spiraled closer and closer together, they began to emit gravitational waves that were measurable for tens of seconds by LIGO's instruments before the inevitable cataclysm, starting at 8:41 a.m. eastern daylight time (5:41 a.m. Pacific daylight time).

There were some real standouts in the eveningwear, as well, including a silver sequined jumpsuit worn by Kaia Gerber and a seafoam green gown which closed the show on Gigi Hadid, both of which would look lovely on the Oscars red carpet paired with the right, extra-bright young stars.

We've got the poster for «Gus,» a comedic drama starring Radha Mitchell and Michelle Monaghan as a pair of close friends, one who desperately wants to conceive a child but can't and another who winds up pregnant after a one night stand.

But with the beloved vampire series finally poised to come to a close this fall, the timing is now more ripe than ever for some other pair of star - crossed paranormal teenager lovers to swoop in and take Edward and Bella's place.

Add a pair of hired thugs (Hans Christian Blech and Francois Simon), a mysterious «protector» (Bruno Cremer), plus our heroine's tendency to gouge out the eyes of any man who gets too close, and you've got yourself a truly unique exercise in Grand Guignol, even by the standards of an era in which Rampling became a star via Liliana Cavani's concentration - camp romp The Night Porter.