Sentences with phrase «cosmic objects known»

All of the fuss is over the Mad Titan searching for the powerful cosmic objects known as the Infinity Stones to complete his golden gauntlet and imbue himself with unbelievable power.

Not exact matches

Since Hubble's guess that every star has the same luminosity is not strictly true, to chart the universe's expansion astronomers needed more reliable cosmic candles — celestial objects that they could trust to burn with the same luminosity no matter how far from Earth.

Such a crust could have formed as energetic particles known as cosmic rays bombarded the object over its lifetime, creating an ice - free surface rich in organic compounds.

The match means our water ice stores have the same cosmic origin as the solar system's comets — among its oldest known objects.

Though astronomers still do not know what kinds of events or objects produce FRBs, the discovery is a stepping stone for astronomers to understand the diffuse, faint web of material that exists between galaxies, called the cosmic web.

He finds that most cosmic rays come from well - known objects that produce other forms of radiation, too — black holes emit X-rays, for instance, and supernovas glow with visible light.

«High - energy neutrinos are produced along with gamma rays by extremely high - energy radiation known as cosmic rays in objects like star - forming galaxies, galaxy clusters, supermassive black holes, or gamma - ray bursts.

A host of new techniques means we will soon know whether these weird cosmic objects are what we think they are, says Michael D Lemonick

Consisted of the imploded core remaining after a giant star explodes, black holes are a kind of cosmic object whose core contracted to form a singularity, a point with infinite density and the strongest gravitational attraction known to exist.

We can't see it, we can't touch it and we know it's there only by the gravitational pull it exerts on cosmic objects.

And whatever we call it, it's no less interesting a cosmic object than it was before all this began.»

«By studying the chemistry of the Little Cub, we know that it is one of the most primitive objects currently known in our cosmic neighborhood,» said research co-author Dr. Ryan Cooke, Royal Society University Research Fellow, in Durham University's Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy.

With its high - definition resolving power, HDST has the amazing ability to take an optical image or spectrum at about 100 - parsec spatial resolution or better, for any observable object in the entire Universe, no matter where a galaxy lies within the cosmic horizon.

Radiation from these early cosmic objects would eventually begin the time of the universe known as «reionization.»

This object was known to be about 40,000 light - years away, within our own Milky Way Galaxy — in our own cosmic neighborhood.

Knowing that the emergence of life on our planet is a cosmic miracle, is critical to transgressing the epistemic paradigm box that sees nature as a mere object to be exploited.