Sentences with phrase «ejected material»

About the crater, another way to account for the low volume of ejected material might be if most of it was ice and the ice subsequently melted.

Earth's heat source is a variable star, a remnant of the supernova that ejected the material now orbiting the Sun as planets, moons, asteroids and meteors:

It looked like a sink hole, except for the ejected material surrounding it.

All around the holes were ejected material.

Dust trapped in polar ice cores shows that ejected material spread around the globe, indicating that the eruption injected substantial material into the stratosphere, where it can strongly affect climate.

It is possible that the star spewed out a dense shell of gas about a year before the explosion, and when the supernova happened, ejected material hit the shell.

Kasliwal's colleague, theorist Ehud Nakar of Tel Aviv University, pointed out that the absence of X-ray and radio emissions fit a model in which the ejected material from the merged neutron stars produced a blast wave that interacts with the interstellar medium but with a time lag.

Most of the energy from the supernova turns into light when it hits this previously ejected material, resulting in a short, but brilliant burst of radiation.

This shallow angle would have permitted some of the ejected material from the collision to fall back on the surface, spraying it with the observed phyllosilicate traces.

The observations indicate that iPTF 13dqy was a regular type II supernova; thus, the finding that the probable red supergiant progenitor of this common explosion ejected material at a highly elevated rate just prior to its demise suggests that pre-supernova instabilities may be common among exploding massive stars.

The sun's activity shifts over the course of its 11 - year cycle, with sun spot numbers, radiation levels, and ejected material changing over time.

These new observations of Herbig Haro 46 - 47 revealed that some of the ejected material had velocities much higher than had been measured before.

Many dying stars and stellar corpses are embedded in their ejected material, which shrouds our view in visible light but can be penetrated with Webb's infrared vision.

Some researchers theorized that these afterglows eluded detection because they occurred in a less dense region of a galaxy, where ejected material wouldn't have the opportunity to interact with lots of particles and produce a bright enough burst.

But it is already clear that there are some unidentified spectral features in the light reflected from the ejected material, meaning the mission's goal of learning new things about the internal composition of the comet will clearly be fulfilled.

As the ejected material rammed into the cloud, some energy from its motion could have been converted into light and heat, powering the dying star's extreme and persistent brightness.

When the supernova remnant RCW 103 was first observed 25 years ago, it seemed to be a textbook example of a massive star's death: a gaseous cloud of ejected material surrounding a neutron star only about 12 miles across.

The scientists are hoping to use ash deposits from these volcanoes to develop a sharper picture of the amount and speed of the ejected material.

When they die, stars explode in supernovae, leaving behind a cloud of ejected material called a supernova remnant.

The recently ejected material is spat out in opposite directions with immense speed — the gas shown in yellow is moving close to one million kilometers per hour (621,371 miles per hour).

Impostors undergo brilliant outbursts that eject material but don't destroy the star.

Canup's computer models show that to produce a single moon - size satellite, an impact would have to eject material with at least twice the mass of the moon.

Since the geysers are ejecting material from the lake up into space, a probe could simply take a few passes through the plumes, sweep up samples and fly them back home for study in terrestrial labs.

Furthermore, the moons would be extremely dry, even in the context of the Red Planet, as any water vapor contained in the ejected materials from which the moons could have formed would have been lost to space.

Young stars are violent objects that eject material at speeds of as high as one million kilometres per hour.

This water even escapes as geysers, through fissures in its icy crust, producing stunning plumes that eject material hundreds of miles high and into Saturn's rings.

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: As these neutron stars come together, the stars eject some material in their tidal tails into space at very close to the speed of light.

Generally these erupt near the Equator and eject material with high sulfur content into the Stratosphere.

Not exact matches

Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

Observations revealed a previously theorized process dubbed a «kilonova» — thought to be a source of heavy elements like gold, silver, platinum and uranium — which could form as neutron - rich material is ejected from the stars.

Two giant polar lobes form when strongly magnetized material ejected from the star's center distorts and fails to launch cleanly away.

Using Hubble's spectroscopic capabilities the teams also found indications of material being ejected by the kilonova as fast as one - fifth of the speed of light.

The images suggest that the roughly 4.5 - billion - year - old comet, named 332P / Ikeya - Murakami, or comet 332P, may be spinning so fast that material is ejected from its surface.

The chemical element lithium has been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova.

Plunkett said the technology allows researchers to determine details about the star formation process, such as how often material is accreted or ejected, on time scales of a few hundred years.

With the first eruption, they saw a coronal loop form below the bubble of material ejected during the CME.

Hand thinks scientists could use this type of color variation to help determine the ages of geologic features and material ejected from any plumes that might exist on Europa.

«We are using the ink - jet printer's ability to eject tiny pulses of material to achieve precise control,» Okada told New Scientist.

Moreover, this material is then ejected and hardly contributes to the formation of the smaller bodies that form a new generation of comet nuclei.

This illustration shows a permanently shadowed region of the moon undergoing subsurface sparking (the «lightning bolts»), which ejects vaporized material (the «clouds») from the surface.

Such stars end their lives in huge supernova explosions, ejecting their stellar materials outwards into space and leaving behind an extremely dense and compact object; this could either be a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole.

While Law has his pet hypothesis about the origin of fast radio bursts — a magnetar surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar — there are other possibilities.

These include expanding shells and rings of material around the galactic centre, and evidence of streams of gas being ejected from the galactic core.

On August 26 and 27, 1883, the volcano Krakatau erupted in a catastrophic event that ejected about 20 cubic kilometers of material in an eruption column almost 40 kilometers high.

It is surrounded by a mile - high rampart of material that was ejected from the crater — enough rock to bury the continental United States under a two - mile - deep layer.

For about a week, material ejected into the atmosphere plunged the world into darkness.

Nevertheless, the material in Tempel 1 matches that ejected by Comet Hale - Bopp in 1995 and that means that these comets formed in broadly similar ways, the researchers argue.

Five images of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings.

No harm results to the cell from ejecting the DNA, he found, because it comes not from the critical genetic material in the nucleus but from intracellular organs called mitochondria, which are more expendable.

They coincide with a sudden, violent reconfiguration of the magnetic field, releasing huge amounts of energy that can eject billions of tons of solar material into space at speeds of over a thousand kilometers per second.