Sentences with phrase «heated by the star»

This energy comes from dust orbiting the star which is heated by the star's light.

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Bring 5 star anise pods and 1/2 cup water to a simmer in a small saucepan over low heat, shaking pan often, and cook until fragrant and water is reduced by a little more than half, about 5 minutes.
It took the air out of the Bulls squad, put the Heat up by seven and capped a gritty fourth - quarter performance from the perennial All - Star.
Sevilla star Carlos Bacca is a hot target for Tottenham Hotspur, and Spurs have turned the heat up on the transfer by sending out their new recruitment chief, Paul Mitchell, to watch the striker in Europa League action, according to the Mirror.
One of the stars of the day was Canadian driver Stefan Rzadzinski, who was voted by fans to compete in the event and ended up beating Scott Speed AND Alex Rossi in his heats.
Last summer, Barack Obama took a lot of heat for skipping a candidate forum in Iowa sponsored by the AARP, choosing instead to attend a hip - hop event starring Usher.
Nor is there any hint of heat radiated by dust clouds exposed to the harsh light of a hidden neutron star.
These molecules initially comprise just a small fraction of the gas, but they can absorb heat from the surrounding gas and get rid of it by emitting light, thereby cooling the cloud enough for stars to form.
It combines visible light images from Hubble and the Very Large telescope (shown in blue, green, and red)- which show gas and stars - with X-ray images from Chandra (shown in pink) which picks out extremely hot gas in between the galaxies, heated by the collision.
Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.
«What we can observe is the gas itself, because the molecules are excited by the heat from the stars and therefore emit light in the infrared and microwave range.
Such ultradense, spinning neutron stars created by supernovas could continue to generate magnetic power that would heat up the expanding gas left over from the supernova.
Detected with the newly upgraded Very Large Array of telescopes in New Mexico, the maser appears when interstellar methanol molecules get heated up by nearby stars.
«The distance between you and the big star changes constantly, so the amount of heat you get can change by several per cent over the course of a binary orbit, which is a week.»
Exo - zodiacal dust has been warmed to room temperature by its host star, so it glows when viewed in infrared wavelengths — that is, in infrared light, emitted by heated objects.
By observing the combined infrared radiation of star and planet with Spitzer and then subtracting the radiation recorded from the star alone when it hid the planet, Deming and Charbonneau had detected the heat of the planet itself.
Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to talk about the problem;» a new paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.
Having a mass of only less than seven per cent of the mass of the Sun, they are unable to create sufficient pressure and heat in their interiors to ignite hydrogen - to - helium fusion, a fundamental physical mechanism by which stars generate radiation.
The main energy source in these adolescent stars, known as T Tauri stars, is the heat generated by their gravitational contraction.
A group of Japanese researchers led by Osaka University has proposed that substances heated with high - power lasers produce an ultrahigh pressure plasma state, comparable with those found at the centers of stars, and that the surface tension of the plasma can push back light.
But the small telescope may be better at looking even farther into the past than the larger arrays, allowing it to look at hydrogen atoms heated by the very first stars, Bowman says.
But it has been unclear whether that dust is heated by the energy created as matter gets sucked into the black hole, or by radiation from newly born stars.
These winds suppress star formation by heating up the ambient gas found in galaxies and preventing it from cooling and condensing into stars.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected the gas surrounding the exploded star heated to 10 million kelvins by the shock wave's passage.
Due to their proximity to the star, the heat that the planets suffer means that their «envelopes» have been blown away by intense radiation.
So these are not sort of small players, these are major parts of the energy budget of an accreting black hole and by extension, they have an important impact on their environment; and the jets associated with accreting black holes and nuclei galaxies inflate giant lobes of plasma outside the galaxy and these heat the surrounding gas, they affect the fuel supply, they stimulate star formation, they in fact stimulate galaxy formation.
Limited by the era's computers and understanding of physics, Wilson's model relied on simplifications — such as the star being a perfect sphere — and incorrect assumptions about the behavior of very dense matter and how neutrinos move from the core's interior to the crucial outer parts where the heating of the shock wave occurs.
Other similar ripples of heated matter thrown out by young stars are dotted across Barnard's Galaxy.
The film would have to be blanketed by a highly reflective cover to endure the harsh conditions of deep space and the heat near the destination star.
The scientists incorporated a variety of physical processes in the calculations, including three that are considered particularly important for the development of the visible universe: first, the condensation of matter into stars, second, their further evolution when the surrounding matter is heated by stellar winds and supernova explosions and enriched with chemical elements, and third, the feedback of supermassive black holes that eject massive amounts of energy into the universe.
The star's intense light and heat would evaporate the gas giant's atmosphere at a rate of up to 10 million tonnes per second, which may render the planet a naked core by the time its star expands and envelops it.
Researchers are keen to understand the feeding habits of black holes because such binges, called accretion events, have an enormous effect on their surroundings, shutting off galaxy growth by heating and expelling the gas needed to form new stars.
Material from the bow shock gets heated by friction and then is whipped around and behind the star.
Ehrenreich and his team think that such a huge cloud of gas can exist around this planet because the cloud is not rapidly heated and swept away by the radiation pressure from the relatively cool red dwarf star.
The same effect is seen with the gas motions (caused by heat and rotation) inside a single star or gas cloud in our galaxy.
Somehow the dark matter would interact with the hydrogen atoms only in this period of the universe, after everything had escaped the crucible of the Big Bang but before the gas had been heated by other stars.
Hydrogen, the most common element in space, glows intensely in red light when heated by hot, young stars seen inside the «trunk.»
The heat emitted by this radiation causes the so - called planetary envelopes to be blown away, especially because the planets are so close to their host stars.
When the star's ultraviolet radiation strikes the gases in the nebula, they heat up, giving out radiation ranging in wavelength from blue — emitted by hot oxygen in the bubble near the star — to yellow — emitted by hot hydrogen and nitrogen.
When hydrogen gas is heated by the ultraviolet emissions of new stars, it produces a spectral signature called the Lyman - alpha line.
The inner edge of the optically - thick outer disk must be heated almost frontally by the star to account for the excess flux at mid-IR wavelengths.
They are illuminated and heated by a torrent of energetic ultraviolet light from its four hottest and most massive stars, called the Trapezium, which lie near the center of the image.
The one GOOD thing about these direct hits would be ELIMINATION of thick Hydrogen envelopes around these types of planets when these envelopes were HEATED by MUCH MORE LUMINOUS HOST STARS to the point where the envelopes FILLED the planets» Hill spheres.
Using Keck Observatory's powerful infrared spectrograph called MOSFIRE, the team dated the galaxy by detecting its Lyman - alpha emission line — a signature of hot hydrogen gas heated by strong ultraviolet emission from newly born stars.
In any case, any developing carbon - based life on a developing Earth - type planet would be subject to tremendous heat on a newly formed planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young stars.
It is illuminated and heated by four massive stars known as the Trapezium, which lie near the center of the image.
The core extends from the center of the Sun to about 0.2 solar radii, and is the only part of the Sun in which an appreciable amount of heat is produced by fusion; the rest of the star is heated by energy that is transferred outward.
The star collapses by its own gravity and the iron core heats up.
This dust is heated by ultra-violet radiation from massive newborn stars and the warm dust then re-radiates at radio wavelengths.
M17 contains a large amount of dark obscuring material, which is also heated by the hot young stars, and can be seen in infrared wavelengths.
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