Sentences with phrase «dusty material»
The cloud contains enough dusty material to completely block the visible light from background stars.
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Kalas and a multi-institutional team using GPI first targeted the star in search of other planets in May 2015 and discovered that it was surrounded by a ring of dusty material very close to the size of our own solar system's Kuiper Belt.
When comets approach the Sun, these ices heat up, eventually turning to gases that jet out into space together with dusty material to form a head or coma around the cometary nucleus.
«Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping the young star HR 4796A.»
According to astronomers, dusty materials circling around a young star clump together to form asteroids that smash into each other.
The New Worlds Technology Development Program, which lays the scientific groundwork for a future mission to study nearby Earth - like planets, and the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope, which would provide short - wavelength radio surveys to study dusty material associated with galaxies and stars, are ranked the highest priority for midsize space - and ground - based programs, respectively.
He immediately reanalyzed existing images of the star taken earlier by the Hubble Space Telescope and discovered that the ring of dusty material extended much farther away and was extremely lopsided.
The team believes this contradiction could be explained if the planet was embedded in a large cloud of dusty material, which scatters the light of the star.
His model predicts that the collision between the jet of gas and the dusty material and gases inside a galaxy would produce characteristic emissions of light.