Sentences with phrase «dust around the bright star»
A ring of dust around the bright star Fomalhaut looks uncannily like the Great Eye of Sauron in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a few years ago.
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A beautiful mixture of hot, blue star - forming regions, redder, cooler regions of gas, and dark lanes of opaque dust can be seen, all swirling together around a bright core.
Bright exozodiacal light, created by the glowing grains of hot exozodiacal dust, or the reflection of starlight off these grains, was observed around nine of the targeted stars.
The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a bright ring of dust around a star called HR 4796A, about 220 light - years away.
Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the researchers identified a disc - shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the sun, located 360 light years away in the Centaurus constellation.
Like other spiral galaxies, the Milky Way Galaxy, has a bright disk of stars with sweeping arms of conspicously younger, brighter, and bluer stars enveloped in gas and dust that curve around its center like the arms of a huge pinwheel.
At these wavelengths, astronomers can peer at the disks of gas and dust around newborn stars, see into star - forming clouds, and observe early galaxies that are bright in submillimetre wavelengths but obscured by dust in optical light.
Our overall detection rate is 18 %, including four new detections, among which are... ▽ More The HOSTS (Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems) survey searches for dust near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main sequence stars.
The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.
Abstract: The HOSTS (Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems) survey searches for dust near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main sequence stars.