Sentences with phrase «giant stars spin»

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First of all, they realized that the dark cloud feeding the star should have been set spinning by small, random motions left over from its formation in the giant molecular cloud of which it was a part.

Instead, these Jupiter - like gas giants hang at a cock - eyed angle, and sometimes rotate backwards or orbit in the opposite direction of the star's own spin.

But the new work indicates that the protoplanetary disc breaks up quickly — after just a few spins around its star — and that the cores of gas giants begin to draw in their gas shrouds soon thereafter.

The first observational sign that contact binaries merge came in 1981, when American astronomers Bernard Bopp and Robert Stencel said a fast - spinning giant star named FK Comae Berenices was a former contact binary that had merged and become single.

Scientists have long suspected that a pulsar — a rapidly spinning, superdense neutron star — was born when a giant star ended its life in a cataclysmic supernova explosion observed in late summer of 1181, as suggested by Japanese and Chinese historical records.

The solar system is part of a giant, spinning, spiral - shaped galaxy called the Milky Way, and the universe contains billions of galaxies, each with millions of stars, and many with planets nearby.

In a stellar black hole, which forms when a giant star dies explosively, the rotation is a logical remnant of the star's spin.