Another main - sequence star, HR 4796, has a thicker dust cloud orbiting it, but
even that star emits only 0.5 per cent of its energy at far - infrared wavelengths (New Scientist, Science, 4 January 1992).
Not exact matches
Even the many years of being a music teacher (i.e.: listening to squeaking clarinets, booming bass drums, and pre-pubescent boys trying to muscle out the high notes of the
Star Spangled Banner) didn't prepare me for the screaming roars my tiny baby
emits.
There is no evidence so far of intelligent life out there and we are
emitting fewer deliberate signs of our existence (
even if a few messages are still being beamed into space, such as one in the direction of the
star Polaris on 10 October 2016).
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.
Of current instruments, only ALMA has the characteristics required to reveal these mysteries, by observing, in depth,
star - forming clouds and detecting the soft light
emitted by matter which is just beginning to warm up, and
even mapping its movement.
Furthermore, previous studies suggest the radiation
emitted during the growth of the black hole controlled, or
even stopped, the creation of
stars as the released energy heated up the gas.