Sentences with phrase «from nearby stars»

It will be 50 times more sensitive than current instruments and capable of spotting a television signal from a nearby star.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Vega from the Nearby Stars Database.)

«In order to detect molecules in the atmospheres of exoplanets, astronomers need to be able to analyze light from the planet without being completely overwhelmed by light from the nearby star,» Ruane says.

It could be a «microquasar» — a black hole feeding on gas from a nearby star — but the X-rays typically emitted from such objects are absent.

They may suck hydrogen away from nearby stars in a process called «mass transfer,» or collide with them and absorb them whole.

To spot the black hole's event horizon, a team of astronomers — led by Michael Garcia and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — watched what happened as a black hole stole gas away from a nearby star.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey field image of 107 Piscium from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Xi Boötis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Aldebaran A from the Nearby Stars Database.)

This is an artist's concept of a pulsar (blue - white disk in center) pulling in matter from a nearby star (red disk at upper right).

From the original description, the team knew they were looking for a nova eruption — an extremely powerful explosion, where a white dwarf is fed by hydrogen from a nearby star.

One way to resolve this seeming paradox, astronomers have speculated, is for a second stellar wind from a nearby star to collide with the first wind, cooling the gas enough to preserve dust.

He saw the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape; and an accretion disk, the gathering of matter siphoned from nearby stars.

This feature is thought to be a bow shock created by the wind flowing from the nearby star Trumpler 14 MJ 218.

The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.

«What we know is that at that early time we already had a star and that star exploded, and that star is not that different from the nearby stars that produce gamma - ray bursts.»

The group, led by physics professor emeritus Saul Rappaport, determined that in order for the planet to maintain its extremely tight orbit around its star, it would have to be incredibly dense, made almost entirely of iron — otherwise, the immense tidal forces from the nearby star would rip the planet to pieces.

They looked at the region in H - alpha — which highlights regions of gas ionised by the radiation from nearby stars — to locate supernova shock fronts.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of HD 189733 AB from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey field image of 41 Arae from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Mu Herculis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Iota Persei from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Beta Hydri from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Gamma Pavonis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Zeta Tucanae from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Rana from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of 37 Geminorum from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Kappa Ceti from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of 70 Virginis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of 15 Sagittae from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Beta Comae Berenices from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Chi1 Orionis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

«This next - generation facility will be the first telescope capable of detecting Earth - level leakage from nearby stars,» Siemion says.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Arcturus from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of 61 Ursae Majoris from the Nearby Stars Database.)

Scientists think that closely - orbiting «hot Jupiters» will experience awesome auroral displays as plasma from their nearby star floods their atmospheres.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Alpha Mensae from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Pollux from the Nearby Stars Database.)

As the white dwarf accretes material from the nearby star, it's possible that could explode as a type la supernova.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of Gamma Leporis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of 51 Pegasi from the Nearby Stars Database.)

FUSE can detect intervening gas by analyzing the incoming light from nearby stars.

Enthusiasts began searching for such signals from nearby stars in the early 1990s, but the new telescope will be the first to examine the entire sky for artificial pulses of light.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of 44 Boötis from the Nearby Stars Database.)

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of HD 147513 A from the Nearby Stars Database.)

Astronomers have discovered a unique black hole that can consume gas from a nearby star 10 times faster than previously thought.

(See a Digitized Sky Survey image of HR 483 from the Nearby Stars Database.)

The Automated Planet Finder will detect planets by tracking subtle wobbles in the light from nearby stars.