Sentences with phrase «debris cloud»

It predicts that the element beryllium should form when cosmic rays break apart carbon and oxygen in the supernova debris cloud.

Astronomers watching the event's aftermath found no dark debris cloud, like the one following the impact in July of last year.

The comet fragments coming in rapidly at a steep, elliptical orbit could create a big debris cloud that could dim the star.

US lawmakers were incensed by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test that created the largest space debris cloud in history when it pulverized one of its own aging satellites.

Seen towards the constellation Taurus it covers nearly 3 degrees (6 full moons) on the sky corresponding to a width of 160 light - years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light - years.

This story is still just hypothetical, but astrophysicists point to a piece of supporting evidence: The FRBs are coming from the same vicinity as a steady source of radio emission — possibly the background signal from the expanding debris cloud that surrounds the young magnetar.

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(Military spokesmen said the resulting debris cloud, slowly settling toward the surface mainly over the ocean, had no pieces bigger than a football.)

Earth - based observers had trouble seeing the ejecta, because the densest part of the debris cloud flew low across the lunar surface and was hidden by a high ridge.

Simulations have previously shown that additional moons could have formed from the debris cloud, sharing an orbit with the one large moon that survives today.

Mars will be right at the edge of the debris cloud, so it might encounter some of the particles — or it might not,» said Rich Zurek, chief scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Last year, a ground - based infrared study of one such cloud, around a star called HR 4796A, revealed a «hole» in the debris cloud, perhaps indicating the birthplace of planets.

It also makes a prediction: Astronomers should begin to see clusters of massive stars in SN 2006gy's vicinity in future years when the debris cloud dissipates.

The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.

This year, astronomers traced high - energy particles called cosmic rays back to their birthplaces in the debris clouds of supernovae — a feat that Science's editors chose as a runner - up for Breakthrough of the Year.

As the trailing LCROSS spacecraft approached the lunar surface, documenting the debris cloud en route to its own impact just a few minutes later, LRO had its own spectrometer trained on the airspace over Cabeus.

Colaprete did not offer definitive word as to why the visual camera apparently did not detect the event but added there were interesting changes in spectroscopic data taken by the spacecraft that might have been produced by a debris cloud.

The debris cloud from the merger mushroomed from about the size of a city shortly after the merger to about the size of a solar system after only one day, Kasen said.

Before there's an answer, we crest a ridge and see a translucent column connecting a tiny pointy funnel to a debris cloud.

Stay well back from the silt laden roots, or you will stir up debris clouding the water.