Sentences with phrase «from ordinary stars»

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On the other side, how the hell does an intelligent man pay 50 million for Sterling, not only is he ordinary without the likes of Saurez, Surridge, and Gerrard he looks like he came from Star Wars (like so many others).

They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens, magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern of images.

CANNIBAL ZOMBIE STAR Dead stars called white dwarfs (left) steal material from ordinary companion stars (right), as shown in this artist's illustration.

The event was what's known as a classical nova explosion, which occurs when a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf steals enough material from an ordinary companion star for its gas to spontaneously ignite.

Studying first generation supernovae provides a glimpse into what the Universe looked like when the first stars, galaxies, and supermassive black holes formed, but to date it has been difficult to distinguish a first generation supernova from an ordinary supernova.

They used a series of filters, like polarised, glare - blocking sunglasses but bigger and more precise, to observe the light from a nearby, relatively dim neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — and compared it with light from ordinary nearby stars.

Aoki says the star likely formed from a gas cloud enriched by a pair - instability explosion, which is 10 to 100 times more violent than an ordinary supernova.

Indeed, Vigelius and Melatos found that massive, stable «mountains» can grow on the surface of a neutron star using material stolen from an ordinary companion star.

Right now it's an ordinary - looking, dim red star 63 light - years off, but it is racing toward us so that in a mere million years it will be just three - quarters of a light - year from the sun — roughly 1,000 times farther out than Pluto but well inside the Oort cloud.

The star is travelling away from us at a speed of about 700 kilometres per second — much faster than ordinary stars in the galactic neighbourhood.

In fact, aside from its anomalous dimming, this star appears entirely ordinary.

The light emitted by old stars and clumps of hot pristine gas from the early universe suggest helium made up some 25 per cent of the ordinary matter created during the big bang.

The ordinary hydrogen - burning dwarf stars like the Sun are found in a band running from top - left to bottom - right called the Main Sequence.

An object too small to be an ordinary star because it can not produce enough energy by fusion in its core to compensate for the radiative energy it loses from its surface.

It detected more than 150 ordinary stars by the X-radiation from their coronas.

The unambiguous detection of X rays from other more distant ordinary stars was achieved 30 years later by the orbiting HEAO 2 satellite known as the Einstein Observatory.

From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, stem cell therapy has helped when standard medicine failed.

The original movie, which starred Pratt as an ordinary minifigure who discovers he's the only one who can help the resistance stop a businessman from reshaping the LEGO worlds into his own vision, grossed $ 469.1 million worldwide.

Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker star as «ordinary» parents who go to extraordinary lengths to protect their mutant children from organizations like Sentinel Services, which, if you've read any X-Men comics or seen one of co-EP Bryan Singer's films, you'll recognize as a real threat.

The others are «Last Days in the Desert» (May 13), from «Albert Nobbs» director Rodrigo Garcia, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and the Devil (yep, you read that right) in a struggle over the fate of an ordinary family; and writer / director James Napier Robertson's «The Dark Horse» (Apr. 1) a biopic of chess champion Genesis Potini.

The men in this summer's slate of indie films are far from ordinary: Colin Farrell stars as a neurotic in the wonderfully weird romantic comedy «The Lobster» and Daniel Radcliffe is a dead guy in «Swiss Army Man.»

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

This suspenseful sci - fi classic from Steven Spielberg stars Richard Dreyfuss as an ordinary Joe who stumbles upon an alien visitation, leaving an irrevocable mark on his life.

Finally, rounding off the top five this week and falling two places from last week is the action / comedy Knight and Day about an ordinary girl who unintentionally gets involved with a secret agent, featuring super star actors Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the leading roles.

Joseph Cedar, an Oscar - nominated filmmaker from Israel, brings us an exceptional tale about an ordinary man in Norman, starring Richard Gere and Lior Ashkenazi.

In a conversation for this series, Machado explained how Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House became a kind of call to arms, especially a scene where a little girl refuses an ordinary water glass — insisting instead on drinking from an adorned «cup of stars.»

In her latest film, Watson again gives voice to another remarkable yet «ordinary» woman, starring in Oranges and Sunshine as Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker who in the 1980s uncovered a decades - long program of forced deportation / immigration which sent tens of thousands of children from England to Australia.

Nothing extra is asked of, or received from, the fine actors lined up to support the star turn, and production values are ordinary.

Coinciding with its release this week, we've got an exclusive clip from The Orchard's latest streaming title The Ashram featuring Melissa Leo (The Fighter) and Sam Keeley (This Must Be the Place), who star in the film alongside Hera Hilmar (An Ordinary Man) and Kal Penn (Designated Survivor).

Joel Edgerton stars in this quiet, restrained real - life drama from director Jeff Nichols as Richard Loving, an ordinary working - class white man who found himself at the centre of a legal storm when he married his African American wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga), in 1950s Virginia.

I wish Stoller had been more willing to simply throw us full bore into the train wreck that is Aldous's life — you know, like This Is Spinal Tap did with its horrifying rock star idiots we couldn't look away from — but I'm struck with a terrible certainty that Greek believes that it needs to spell out, in no uncertain terms, a cautionary tale about how the «glamorous life» ain't so glamorous and «ordinary life» as lived by us mere mortals is far better.

Further distinguishing the special edition Mini from ordinary Coopers by its blacked out bi-xenon headlamps, cleared out turn signals, chrome exhaust tips and Black Star Bullet alloys measuring 17 inches in diameter.

Business management sessions include: Characteristics of a Successful Business, Foundations for Launching a New Business, How to Get Extraordinary Results from Ordinary People, How to Keep Good Employees, How to Win the Battle with Your Competition, Managing Your Finances in a Challenging Economy, Numbers Gibberish and the Profit Secrets They Hide, Pricing Strategies for Profits Plus and What It Takes to be a 5 - Star Business.

Located on the grounds of the exclusive Wailea Beach Villas Resort, you'll find five - star shared amenities and all the space you and your guests could need for a peaceful escape from the ordinary.

Accommodation in Ethiopia ranges from very, very simple inns over ordinary hotels, to the 5 - star - luxury complexes.

Disney Sing It: The Party Hits «Ordinary Girl» — Hannah Montana (free) Disney Sing It: Party Hits lets players sing to the hottest pop songs and videos from pop star favorites.

Also included is a work by Gimhongsok, from Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim in Seoul; A Star (2011) is one of a series of sculptures entitled «Ordinary Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious metals.

PY Clouin will be present during the screening of a 50 - minute program entitled Extra Ordinary Men curated by Stefan St - Laurent which features 21 of his videos from 1995 - 2008 during the Art Star Biennale in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 4, at 9 pm.