Sentences with phrase «clouds of space dust»

A distant cloud of space dust is helping scientists confirm how stars likely formed in the early universe.

Not exact matches

It's true that space is a vacuum, but it's an imperfect vacuum because it contains a low density of particles like clouds of interstellar dust, space plasma, and cosmic rays.

With some building blocks of life being found in clouds of gas and dust in space, complicated molecules, and the results of Dr. Venter creating a life form using a synthetic DNA code, science is coming to the conclusion that no god is required to start life.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

Generally, science says that our solar system's planets ultimately formed from a huge, ancient cloud of interstellar dust (the solar nebula) in space.

More crucial, infrared rays penetrate effectively through dust clouds, making it possible to peer into otherwise obscured regions of space.

Once in space, the two will go their separate ways: Planck to study in detail the cosmic microwave background, and Herschel to spy on the cool gas and dust clouds that are the nurseries of stars and galaxies.

The nebula was created by the star, which is losing part of its mass out into the surrounding space, forming a cloud of gas and dust as the material cools.

To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.

But recent observations and numerical simulations suggest that eventually — in a few millennia, maybe — the solar system may plow into a cloud of gas and dust a thousand times denser than the space we travel through now.

Last year, scientists announced that seven of those teensy dust particles — stuck in the Space Age gel — seem to come straight from the solar system's original embryonic cloud, based on initial analysis.

His 1957 science fiction novel, The Black Cloud, envisioned a living, intelligent dust cloud in space; it foreshadowed his later support of panspermia, the theory that life evolves in space and spreads throughout the univCloud, envisioned a living, intelligent dust cloud in space; it foreshadowed his later support of panspermia, the theory that life evolves in space and spreads throughout the univcloud in space; it foreshadowed his later support of panspermia, the theory that life evolves in space and spreads throughout the universe.

The mission, perhaps the most ambitious one ever undertaken by the European Space Agency, will now join the comet as it begins a lap around the sun, heats up, and releases stores of ice in a cloud of dust and gas.

One downside is that a dust cloud that extends beyond Mars interferes with infrared transmissions, so the array of space telescopes that NASA envisioned launching to create the Terrestrial Planet Finder would still have to be sent out toward Jupiter.

It floated through interstellar space for millennia before joining a cloud of gas and dust dense enough to collapse into a new star, also destined to go supernova.

Webb's giant sunshield will protect it from stray heat and light, while its large mirror enables it to effectively capture infrared light, bringing us the clearest picture ever of space objects that emit this invisible radiation beyond the red end of the visible spectrum — early galaxies, infant stars, clouds of gas and dust, and much more.

According to the space agency, astronomers exploring a disk of gas and dust around a nearby star uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by constant collisions among the comet - like bodies.

nebula A cloud of space gas and dust existing between major adult stars.

Because it primarily operates in the infrared band (unlike Hubble, which was more tuned towards visible light), the JWST will be able to see through dust clouds into hidden areas of space, too.

That's why Sascha Kempf grew excited when a NASA space probe named Cassini ran into clouds of dust as it sped toward Saturn in 2004.

Like most stars, the sun and its siblings emerged from a nebula — a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

This infrared image combines data from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope with shorter - wavelength observations from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), letting us peer into the clouds of dust wrapped around this stellar nursery.

Stars form from disks of gas and dust; when they die, as here in the Ring Nebula in a Spitzer Space Telescope image, they contract into a cloud of gas and dust.

ALMA will also explore in unprecedented detail many stellar nurseries — the vast, cold clouds of gas and cosmic dust grains in interstellar space where new stars are born.

Current theories derived from computer models and astronomical observations indicate that a star and its planets form from a collapsing cloud of dust and gas within a larger cloud know as a nebula, according to the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed us to watch the explosive death of massive stars, study the remnants they left behind, and witness newborn stars arising from clouds of gas and dust.

When a comet drive - by leaves a cloud of purple dust in space, altering the familiar view from Earth, the collective...

At the PAC, a series of installations inspired by the exploration of the cosmic space related to the imagination of popular culture (Cosmic Cloud and Purple Dust), and the mental troubles represented from a super-pop viewpoint (such as Frog, Crunch, Snake) will be featured as well.

This intimate space takes on the feeling of a bunker in relation to «Smokescreen (Lion & Gazelle)» (2006), on the opposite wall, a photo of an explosion detonating on arid land, its furious clouds of dust throwing into doubt whether the subject really is a lion and a gazelle.

[Obviously, if they were any further away, or if the random supernovas blew up too early to become part of the solar system's dust cloud, or were traveling too fast to be captured by what would become part of the solar system's dust cloud, or were thrown out too slow to get here in time, or were formed but were inside another star gravity field and never thrown back into space, even more dust would be lost in space, but let's keep the problem easy.

Reflection Some of visible light is reflected back into space by clouds and dust in the atmosphere Visible light is also reflected from Earth's surface 1) Which area of Earth reflects the most sunlight?

To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out - of - this - world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth.