Sentences with phrase «in ancient star»

Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today that they have detected the rare element boron in an ancient star.

Both would have been born from massive stars that evolved in close proximity in ancient star factories as a binary pair, eventually dying as supernovas.

Yet the telltale chemical signatures this should have left have not been observed in the ancient stars» early descendants that roam our galaxy.

The experiment's result reinforces what scientists call the lithium problem, a discrepancy between the amounts of the element thought to have been produced 13.8 billion years ago and the amounts observed in ancient stars.

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In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of in the age of AI

In ancient days, when stars and planets were thought to be capricious gods, this did make some kind of sense.

We thus find the typical ancient picture of a domed canopy over the sky, supported by pillars, with a flat earth below floating on a watery abyss, with sun, moon and stars moving in the heavens relative to the earth, and with the world axis intersecting the sacred center of one's nation.

The unworldly thinker is a figure of ancient legend: Socrates himself, of course, losing himself in thought at the threshold of a dinner party, as described in Plato's Symposium; or Thales, who reportedly fell into a well from looking at the stars; or Diogenes the Cynic, whose only request to Alexander the Great upon meeting him was that he get out of his sunlight.

An ancient Chinese chronicle, the Ch» ien - han - shu, states that an object, probably a nova (a new star), was observed in March 5 B.C. and remained visible for 70 days.»

@Dale, Ancient accounts tell of an important figure whose birth would be heralded by a star in the heavens, a god who would later judge the dead.

Their beliefs in the natural motions of objects, the stars, etc. was predicated on Aristotelian physics and ancient science.

We are made of stardust, the scientists say — the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, and the chlorine in our skin forged in the furnaces of ancient stars whose explosions scattered the elements across the galaxy.

Second, when science say's that the sun will burn out in about 4 billion years they are using data that has been gathered about our sun as well as many other star's to come up with their theory, not an ancient manuscript written by nomadic goat herders.

A solitary planet in an eccentric orbit around an ancient star may help astronomers understand exactly how such planetary systems are formed.

La Merika, named in celebration of the bright star that led ancient mariners to the discovery of America, invites wine enthusiasts to explore and discover California's Central Coast appellation with La Merika wines.

The drama in the 2017 edition was tied up in three things, all non-serious: Whether a team would break the 200 - point barrier (nope), whether Russell Westbrook or Anthony Davis would break Wilt Chamberlain's ancient All - Star scoring record (it was Davis), and whether Westbrook and Kevin Durant would fight at midcourt despite being on the same team (nope).

By finding places in the sky where radio telescopes pick up these 21 - centimeter emissions, astronomers can identify light from faraway, hydrogen - rich regions so ancient they date back to the era when stars were starting to form.

But the new monikers also draw inspiration from ancient mythologies and historical star names from indigenous cultures around the world, including in China, Australia and southern Africa.

Ancient fossils reveal the story of Earth, but can the oldest stars in the cosmos tell the story of the universe?

The object is located in the center of a colorful cloud of material consisting of the remains of an ancient star that exploded as a massive supernova.

«Astronomers find new details about star formation in ancient galaxy protoclusters.»

The ancient star is around 6,000 light years from Earth, which Dr Keller says is relatively close in astronomical terms.

But new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed ancient stars mingled with the young ones, proving the galaxy as a whole is in fact as old as its neighbors.

A second technique called asteroseismology — the measurement of tiny oscillations in the star's brightness — revealed Kepler 444's size, mass and impressive age, which researchers say provides billions of more years for ancient extraterrestrial life to have taken hold somewhere out there.

For the past two years, Winget and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have been creating searing plasmas that are, in effect, miniature versions of white dwarfs, ancient stars that have burned up all their nuclear fuel.

A distant, ancient galaxy far more massive than our own formed all its stars in less than half a billion years

Ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, have been discovered in the centre of the Milky Way for the first time, using ESO's infrared VISTA telescope.

As RR Lyrae stars typically reside in ancient stellar populations over 10 billion years old, this discovery suggests that the bulging centre of the Milky Way likely grew through the merging of primordial star clusters.

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars.

RR Lyrae stars typically reside in ancient stellar populations over 10 billion years old.

RR Lyrae stars allow exact distance estimations and are found only in stellar populations more than 10 billion years old, for example, in ancient halo globular clusters.

«We have carefully examined the early data of the Subaru Strategic Survey with HSC and found an apparent over density of stars in Virgo with very high statistical significance, showing a characteristic pattern of an ancient stellar system in the color - magnitude diagram,» he said.

Most globular clusters are judged to be ancient because the stars in them suffer from a sort of cosmic anemia — they contain very few metals.

If this way of forming is common, then these black holes may be the fossil remnants of the gigantic stars that are the most ancient in the universe.

Part I: An astronomer armed with some equations and an Indiana Jones thirst for lost treasures has found an ancient star map where no one thought to look: on public display in a museum.

They found four smudges of light — possibly galaxies — in the area, as well as a blob - shaped galaxy full of ancient stars on the region's periphery.

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

Other models of how these ancient behemoths evolved, including one in which black holes grow by merging with millions of smaller black holes and stars, await further testing.

Most of the galaxy's stars, including the sun, reside in a thin, pancake - shaped disk, but ancient stars populate a halo surrounding the disk.

WRITTEN IN THE STARS This painting by an aboriginal artist from Australia depicts the Milky Way, moon and ancient spirits.

This concentrically expanding system, as ancient as it is enormous, provides a wonderful example of the intricate, interrelated structures that are sculpted in galaxies by the lives and deaths of stars.

Probing the finer details of those ancient, extragalactic stars» chemical structures would take many years, even with the most powerful telescopes on Earth or in space.

Star formation is also evident in the thin thread that connects the two galaxies: a bridge of stars created by the ancient crash, stretching over the 24,000 light - years that currently separate the fated pair.

By comparing the ancient DNA with genetic material taken from modern cod, Star and his colleagues confirmed that four cod samples from Haithabu originated in the north - east Arctic, close to the northernmost tip of the Norwegian coast.

A chemical analysis of the ancient planet - host star Kepler - 444, A&A, in press; arXiv: 1712.06986

The Force is described to Luke in the original Star Wars as the source of a Jedi knight's powers, «an energy field created by all living things» that binds us and the galaxy together, and derided by an Imperial officer as «sorcerer's way» and an «ancient religion.»

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

By tracking the demise of particular stars, scientists have uncovered ancient astronomical events and predicted future changes in the universe [source: NASA].

The crayon was found near Lake Flixton, an ancient lake that has been in - filled with peat helping preserve Great Britain's most important Mesolithic site, Star Carr.