Sentences with phrase «from near the star»

If they are right, a burst of x-rays from near the star should precede each new blob like the muzzle flash of a gun barrel.

Light from the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is requires roughly 4.3 years to get here, so that star system is said to be 4.3 light - years away.

Not exact matches

Here's a look at how one of the most talented American cyclists came back from near - career - ending injury to become a star at the world's greatest race.

From March 2009 through May 2013, Kepler stared down about 145,000 sunlike stars in a tiny section of the night sky near the constellation Cygnus.

Northern Star Resources says it will consider the sale of its Plutonic gold mine near Meekatharra after receiving a number of unsolicited offers from interested parties.

Breaking a Monster is critically acclaimed — as in, a near impossible 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — follows the highly unlikely journey of members Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins as they go from kids being kids to kids being legitimate rock stars.

The nearest star is about 4 light years away, which means it took the light from that star about four years to get here.

Most of Turk's stars, like Randolph Keys (see box), live reasonably near the campus, but coach Turk did spirit away «Ville - killer John White, a 6» 7» swingman, from under the Cards» nose.

Clifford was also impressed by Stephenson's development as a player from raw rookie to near - All - Star, and for his unselfish style of play.

In their first game, the Wings weather a storm from Memphis - based Team Penny and their five - star big man P.J. Washington, a Texan now playing for Findley College Prep near Las Vegas.

Four - star TE Luke Ford, who recently decommitted from Arkansas, is lining up some visits in the near future.

With the likes of Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud grabbing the plaudits for their scoring exploits and some surprises from the emergence of new stars like Coquelin and Bellerin, poor old Nacho Monreal has been nowhere near any of the player awards.

The big stopper has been ever - present in the league so far this season but, with the experienced Simon Moore nearing a return from injury, it will be interesting to see if manager Chris Wilder sticks with his loan star.

Michael Gove's early billing as a star of this Tory generation took a near fatal hammering from a brutal master of political pugilism, Ed Balls.

Brooke Astor's disgraced son, Anthony Marshall, and his wife, Charlene, isolated at a table by the wall at Luke's on Third Avenue because some diners refused to be seated near them... JIMMY Buffett at one table at Maya's, the local power spot on St. Barts, and Patrick Demarchelier at another table with his family, both tables getting a lot of attention from proprietor and chef Maya Gurley... DREW Barrymore, her affectionate boyfriend Justin Long, and Jimmy Fallon and his wife, Nancy, brunching together at Almond on East 22nd... BILL Bratton and Rikki Klieman back at Elaine's with Murray («Don't Worry») Richman and his rising - star daughter, Stacey Richman, plus Dabney Coleman and Carol Higgins Clark.

We can see the nearest few of these great collections of stars, gas (mostly hydrogen) and dust with our eyes from Earth.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

Or the twins who disagree on their age after one returns from a near light - speed trip to a neighbouring star.

The MOIRCS near - infrared spectrograph is very effective for studies focused on the distant, early universe because strong emission lines from star - forming galaxies are redshifted from the optical to the near - infrared regime.

By removing so much gas from near the core, the bubbles make star formation there less likely, the team say.

After decades of failed searches, astronomers from the Pale Red Dot project found a planet around our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.

If shells of material do exist near bursts, they probably come from the massive stars themselves or from other supernovas popping off nearby, he adds.

Stars yanked from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (red) loop around the Milky Way and dive near our sun (yellow dot).

NASA is sketching out plans to send a probe to visit Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, along with a massive telescope to watch its journey from home

One theory suggests the stars were pulled from a pre-existing star cluster that happened to wander near the black hole.

As it neared the Sun, charged particles from our star burned material off the comet.

The technique can reveal planets orbiting the nearer star if it is up to 20,000 light years from Earth, much farther than other techniques.

Once a pitcher starts «aiming his pitches,» as the commentators call it, their voices heavy with foreboding, it usually isn't very long before he's back riding a tractor near the house he was born in, cursing his mental apparatus and simultaneously using it to figure out how much he can get for the sweat - stained athletic supporter he pilfered from an all - star teammate.

Gamma rays usually follow the death of a massive star but these bursts were 88,000 light - years from the nearest galaxy.

As seen from Earth, KELT - 6b resides in the constellation Coma Berenices, near Leo, and has an orbit that transits its star every 7.8 days.

Unlike the Solar System where most of the gravitational pull comes from the Sun and is simple to model, it is much harder to describe the gravitational field near the centre of the Galaxy, where millions of stars, vast clouds of dust, and even dark matter swirl about.

The main ring of the Helix Nebula is about 2 light - years across, about half the distance from our sun to the nearest star.

This catalog merges data on the stellar abundances of stars near to our Sun, from over 150 literature sources, into a massive repository.

But some scientists have suggested the fast - moving stars near the cluster centres could instead result from the gravity of many dim, dead stars such as white dwarfs or neutron stars.

«You see,» he said, «the light from a distant star will be bent as it passes the nearer star and the effect will be a great brightening that anyone can see with a small telescope.»

Apps noted that the precise colors of KOI - 961, which is some 120 light - years away from Earth, are exactly like those of a much nearer red dwarf star known as Barnard's Sstar known as Barnard's StarStar.

During the commissioning phase, the GPI team observed a variety of targets, ranging from asteroids in our solar system, to an old star near its death.

Hubble captures something close to real colors, but in similarly processed images from the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, all stars appear blue (because stars emit more light at visible wavelengths and in the near - infrared).

Hints of their existence came from either X-ray emissions — thought to arise as the black holes consumed their companion stars — or the motion of stars near the centre of some clusters (see Middleweight black holes are «missing link»).

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

It's a hypothetical region of space where comets come from, about halfway between us and the nearest star.

Though the light from the nearest galaxy takes about 3 million years to reach Earth, what we see is a relatively recent picture, considering that a sunlike star lives almost 3,500 times longer than that.

Olsen says the stars share the motion of gas streams near the Large Magellanic Cloud, suggesting that the galaxy tore not only stars but also gas from its lesser neighbor.

Gravitational waves emanating from the spiraling neutron stars triggered LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, and the French - Italian Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy.

The discovery sprang from an observation by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which spotted the infrared glow of a band of dust near a bright star called Eta Corvi.

Scary, but not terribly likely: We are not close to a star about to go supernova, and we're a long way from the nearest black hole.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

And yes, it is kind of near the pole, but if a star is really high up you say it's overhead or you say it's near the zenith if you want to get into astronomical jargon, but it's not in the west; it just doesn't work out, it's not westward from the pole.

It spends much of its time monitoring the light from around 60 of the nearest ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs («stars» which are not quite massive enough to initiate sustained nuclear fusion in their cores), looking for evidence of planetary transits.

Astronomers used to debate whether the worlds of our solar system arose from a massive sheet of gas ripped out of our young sun during a near encounter with a passing star; that extended filament then supposedly clumped into planets.