Sentences with phrase «emitted by any star»

The SMC is full of dust, and the visible light emitted by its stars suffers significant extinction.

Combining observations of X-ray flares with those of gravitational waves emitted by the stars as they spiral together could fix the exact frequency at which the shattering occurs, which would reveal more about the stars» mysterious interiors, says Tsang.

The actual data did not look like much, mostly line graphs showing the intensity of radiation emitted by the stars at various wavelengths, but the meaning hidden behind those numbers had us talking all at once, lost in the fever of discovery.

Essentially composed of hydrogen, it absorbs the ultra violet light emitted by the star and the phenomenon remains invisible on Earth because the ultra violet light is blocked by the atmosphere.

Last October, the team observed the spectrum of radiation emitted by a star in the LMC as it brightened by a factor of five then dimmed again.

But what Rudy and Woodward saw around ngc 5907 resembled the light emitted by stars the size of our sun and smaller.

It was a matter of pinning down their direction, which requires measuring the Doppler shift in the spectrum of the light emitted by the stars.

This is because their intense magnetic activity interferes with the light emitted by the star to a far greater extent than a potential giant planet, even in a close orbit.

The Leiden scientists replicated the frigid vacuum of interstellar space, then introduced the chemicals found in cometary ice and hit them with ultraviolet light like that emitted by stars.

There are also neutrinos which are continually being emitted by stars [in the course] of the processes that produce their energy.

The researchers determined the planets» spectra by subtracting the light emitted by each star from the combined light radiated by the star and planet, leaving just the planet's light spectrum.

In her free time, Urquhart gets away from the light waves emitted by stars to study ocean waves here on Earth.

The remote quasars are so bright that they drown out light emitted by stars in their proto - galactic clump of stars (more illustrations).

So, if you look at the strongest color or wavelength of light emitted by the star, then you can calculate its temperature (temperature in degrees Kelvin = 3 x 106 / wavelength in nanometers).

Mario still claims that moon - walking was invented in Mexico and Rosalind contemplates galactic archaeology in action, carried by light emitted by stars millions of years ago.

Not exact matches

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Babies will be mesmerized by the moon and stars that this table light emits.

These molecules initially comprise just a small fraction of the gas, but they can absorb heat from the surrounding gas and get rid of it by emitting light, thereby cooling the cloud enough for stars to form.

«The gas which forms the major part of the insterstellar medium,» explains Jorge García Rojas, a researcher at the IAC who is the first author on the paper «can be observed because its atoms are ionized by the photons emitted by the hot stars embedded inside it (which can either very massive stars, or white dwarfs, which are also very hot).

The sun frequently emits bursts of matter and energy called flares, which are triggered by a star's natural magnetic turbulence.

«What we can observe is the gas itself, because the molecules are excited by the heat from the stars and therefore emit light in the infrared and microwave range.

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

Kogut's team speculates it may be a curtain of light emitted by the earliest stars to form in the universe — so - called Population III stars.

Each of the 11 gamma ray bursters so far observed by the observatory emits about a 1000 times as much power as all the stars in the Milky Way combined.

The MIT - led team looked through data collected by two different telescopes and identified a curious pattern in the energy emitted by the flare: As the obliterated star's dust fell into the black hole, the researchers observed small fluctuations in the optical and ultraviolet (UV) bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Using similar techniques originally inspired by string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes — predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).

Geologist John Michell wrote in a letter to the Royal Society that if a star were massive enough, «a body falling from an infinite height towards it would have acquired at its surface greater velocity than that of light... all light emitted from such a body would be made to return towards it by its own proper gravity».

That would be big enough to see gravitational waves emitted by any merging supermassive black holes that may have existed around the time when the universe's first stars began to shine, about a hundred million years after the big bang.

This quashes hopes of finding low - frequency gravitational waves emitted by pairs of dense stars, or stars captured by supermassive black holes.

Exo - zodiacal dust has been warmed to room temperature by its host star, so it glows when viewed in infrared wavelengths — that is, in infrared light, emitted by heated objects.

21 SOLAR SHUTDOWN Back in the 1970s, when it seemed that the sun was not emitting the expected number of particles known as neutrinos, some solar physicists proposed that our star might go through million - year stretches of reduced activity, during which time its brightness could drop by perhaps 40 percent.

Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse analyzed two neutron stars orbiting around each other and found they were getting closer — that is, the system was losing energy, by precisely the amount it would lose if the neutron stars were emitting gravitational waves.

Einstein@Home will search for a specific pattern of periodic gravitational waves produced by tiny spinning objects called neutron stars, some of which turn into pulsars that emit rapid blips of radiation.

Star stuff shed by HDE226868 spirals inexorably into the black hole at such high speeds that it emits final X-ray yelps as if in protest.

The first stars emitted mainly optical and ultraviolet light, which today is stretched into the infrared by the expansion of space, so they should not contribute significantly to the CXB.

Ness and her colleagues developed a computer program that analyzed the light emitted by red giants — bright stars that started out like the sun but exhausted their hydrogen fuel — to determine the stars» masses and ages.

That dip was caused by blobs of hot plasma emitted by the galaxy's black hole, which were magnified by a cluster of stars acting as a cosmic lens between Earth and the galaxy, researchers suggest.

I was rather concerned by speculation that white dwarf stars could harbour habitable planets simply because these stars emit light...

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

By comparing the spectrum of light passing through an exoplanet's atmosphere with that of the unfiltered light emitted by its parent star, astronomers can identify substances present in the exoplanet's aiBy comparing the spectrum of light passing through an exoplanet's atmosphere with that of the unfiltered light emitted by its parent star, astronomers can identify substances present in the exoplanet's aiby its parent star, astronomers can identify substances present in the exoplanet's air.

It will pick up the dim, highly reddened light emitted by the first stars in the universe and answer fundamental questions about galaxy formation, alien planets, and the geometry of the cosmos.

This spinning star emits radio waves, which get rotated by the hole's magnetic field (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12499).

Researchers looked at seven of these worlds — distant planets whose mass lies between one and 10 times ours — including 55 Cancri e (at right, compared to Earth) and GJ1214b, evaluating how the x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by their parent stars might affect their atmospheres over their remaining lifetimes.

But after the black hole settles down, Bluck says, conditions would be far more hospitable; no new stars would form and disrupt the galactic neighborhood by churning up gas and dust and emitting their own radiation.

The binary star system was emitting X-rays, which are not usually produced by blue supergiants.

[2] Neutral hydrogen gas absorbs all the high - energy ultraviolet light emitted by hot young stars very efficiently.

Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discover a pair of neutron stars whose orbits are slowing exactly as if they were losing energy by emitting gravitational waves

If a star seems to disappear, the team will try to confirm the formation of a black hole by looking for X-rays emitted by stray bits of matter falling into the black hole, Kochanek says.

«While this galaxy is forming stars at a rate hundreds of times faster than our Milky Way galaxy, the sharp vision of Hubble revealed that the majority of the galaxy's starlight is being emitted by a region with a diameter just a few percent that of the Milky Way,» said Geach.

His idea was to use the High - Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory — made up of 300 water tanks on a Mexican mountaintop — to detect gamma radiation produced when charged particles emitted by pulsars interact with the gas between stars.