Sentences with phrase «debris ejected»

They had thought new suns formed from the dusty debris ejected as old stars died.

They hypothesize that the first explosive event was a jet of debris ejected to very high altitudes by a series of nuclear explosions within the reactor.

It's amazing that only now, with large telescopes like ALMA and the upgraded ATCA, we can peek through the bulk of debris ejected when the star exploded and see what's hiding underneath.»

Not exact matches

This substance may originally have been ejected from the small, dark outer moons of Saturn during impacts with space debris.

NASA's LCROSS mission, which crashed a probe into the moon in 2009, has found evidence of silver in the ejected debris.

And when matter ejected from the second explosion caught up with the debris from the first, the resulting collision produced an extremely bright flash, which is what astronomers observed with SN 2006gy, the team reports in the 15 November issue of Nature.

More than 2000 times as massive as the blast that ripped open Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Indonesian «super-volcano» Toba ejected millions of metric tons of volcanic ash, sulfur, and other debris into the atmosphere 74,000 years ago.

He thinks a large object may have hit Haumea, causing it to spin and eject debris that created the ring and the moons.

Many argued that size and shape weren't everything; a planet should also gravitationally dominate its region of the solar system, sweeping up or ejecting all other orbiting debris.

Bird movements cause air currents, which flow outwards, and in the case of most standard bird cages these air currents eject waste and seed debris outside of the cage and onto the floor.

In the free time I could muster in that period I began driving from our home in Santa Clara, the heart of the Silicon Valley, 45 miles over the mountains to a unique ocean shore phenomenon I discovered and named Neptune's Vomitorium, where periodically, but persistently, large quantities of non-buoyant marine debris (for which I coined the more accessible word «sinksam») are ejected onto the beach in a small hidden cove.

These soft robots would flop on the surface and move about in ways that won't result in them sinking into the debris or getting stuck; in the meantime, they can grab samples and test them or eject them to a waiting orbiter.