Sentences with phrase «hundreds of thousands of stars»

A search of hundreds of thousands of stars in the hope of detecting one message would require remarkable dedication and would probably take several decades.

«Little is known about the origins of globular clusters, which contain hundreds of thousands of stars in a volume only a few light years across.

A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be seen from the southern hemisphere.

Globulars are ancient ball - shaped collections of hundreds of thousands of stars bound by their own gravity.

NASA's Kepler mission has already captured the same kind of time - varying data on hundreds of thousands of stars.

This infrared image shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of the Milky Way galaxy.

«If you find one, there must be large numbers of them,» because globular clusters contain hundreds of thousands of stars that formed at about the same time under the same conditions, says astrophysicist Frederic Rasio of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Grindlay thinks the mystery millisecond pulsar was born about a billion years ago in a globular cluster, a dense, spherical swarm of hundreds of thousands of stars.

Globular star clusters are spherical associations of up to hundreds of thousands of stars.

The star cluster in question is a so - called globular cluster, a tightly packed conglomeration containing hundreds of thousands of stars.

The dozens of star - like points swarming about M87 are, instead, themselves clusters of hundreds of thousands of stars each.

M80 is located 28,000 light - years from Earth and contains hundreds of thousands of stars.