Sentences with phrase «clouds around other star»
The surrounding cloud of ionised gas is producing more microwaves than clouds around other star clusters in our galaxy.
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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.
As the stars within the cluster interact with other clusters and clouds of gas in the galaxy around them, and as the gas between the stars is either used up to form new stars or blown away from the cluster, the cluster's structure begins to change.
Some are found in globular clusters, but most move in a huge cloud around the disk called the galactic halo, which has a luminous inner component defined by globular star clusters and other easily observable stars (with coronae of hot gas possibly expelled by supernovae and of high - velocity neutron stars) and an outer dark - matter component inferred from its gravitational impact on the Milky Way's spiral disk.
On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.