Sentences with phrase «larger than any stars»

And that made it possible for the researchers via Hubble and VLT to study in detail the distribution of stars in the galaxy as well as the patterns of stellar rotation, says Sune Toft: «Thanks to the natural lens we were able to to gaze into the core of this galaxy, which would otherwise have appeared not much larger than a star to our telescopes.

The gas clouds in galaxies are much larger than the stars, so they will very likely hit the clouds in another galaxy when the galaxies collide.

Not exact matches

But it seems that she has her eye on something much larger than just being a TV star: Dunham just signed a deal with Hearst Media that will give the publishing giant the rights to distribute and monetize her popular email newsletter, The Lenny Letter.

An international celebrity, highly sought - after hospitality industry guru, and creator, executive producer and star of Spike TV's number - one show, Bar Rescue, most people know Jon Taffer as a larger - than - life television personality who takes a no - holds - barred approach to helping hotels, restaurants and bars reach their full potential.

Even though Russia has nearly five times as many residents as Texas, the Lone Star State's economy is more than $ 400 billion larger.

It is clearly an analogy to indicate a large number, rather than an actual indication of an infinite number (by the way, the number of stars in the Universe must be infinite) unless Tropher believes there are an infinite number of grains of sand on Earth.....

«NGC 1277's black hole could be many times more massive than its largest known compete tor, which is estimated but not confirmed to be between 6 billion and 37 billion solar masses in size.It makes up about 59 percent of its host galaxy's central mass — the bulge of stars at the core.

Our Sun is one star out of about 200 billion stars that make up our Milkyway Galaxy which is no more or less special than any other galaxy scientists have discovered hurling through a vast unimaginably large expanse of space that we call the Universe (which is about 99 % empty space by the way).

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

Recently launched and already used by chefs from more than 25 countries, Chef's Roll is quickly becoming the world's largest networking platform for culinarians, from culinary students to Michelin starred toques.

Review Body: So, maybe it was my technique, but I wouldn't give this recipe more than 2 - 3 stars... I did not have a large roasting pan, so I split the veggies and chicken into 2 12x8ish dishes; one a glass Pyrex and the other le creuset stoneware.

The boot, and the all - encompassing nature of its shadow over our two would - be stars, has always led me to envision it as being much larger than life in both a physical and symbolic sense.

It's part of a larger pattern of mismanaging player - assets so conspicuously that you're forced to offload them for less than market value — at the end of the day, a professional team is a group of assets, and a huge part of managing a team is doing what you can to increase the market valuation of those assets — and that's where I call this «vendetta» and not «style,» because even a disciplinarian could offer little carrots like, y ’ know, an absolutely deserved All - Star nod (at ZERO cost to himself or the club) but instead chose to publicly flip his most gifted player the bird.

The Blues have been linked to the striker by the Daily Star, and he could be a great replacement for Didier Drogba although the Belgian would likely want a larger role in the first team than the club legend has had this season.

With accommodations for more than 5,000 boats, these harbors constitute the nation's largest municipal harbor system and feature state - of - the - art floating docks, moorings, star docks, fuel facilities and other amenities for Chicago boaters and their guests.

The implosion of the Communist Party (CPGB) in 1990, up until then the largest party of the left other than Labour left a few small grouplets, only one of which is now of any size (the Communist Party of Britain, which still, amazingly, manages to publish the Morning Star).

The distance from the star is somewhat larger than the distance of Saturn from the Sun.

Several stars are in the process of being born here; look right in the center and you'll see a blue speck; that's a star that's already far larger and more powerful than the Sun.

The VMC has revealed that most of the stars within the SMC formed far more recently than those in larger neighbouring galaxies.

A further zoom brings into view green, spidery NGC 604, one of the largest nebulas in M33 and home to more than 200 newly formed stars.

This large sample allowed the scientists to derive the most accurate high - mass segment of the IMF to date, and to show that massive stars are much more abundant than previously thought.

Coupled with software to reduce assorted stellar background noise, it could measure light changes down to 20 parts per million, making it more than sensitive enough to detect an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star in an orbit as large as Earth's.

Rather than using multibillion - dollar laser arrays to boost small light sails to relativistic speeds for one - time flybys, Heller and Hippke propose using starlight alone to send larger sails on more leisurely journeys that would take them to all three stars in the Alpha Centauri system and leave them parked in orbits there.

Even though the star GJ 1214 is a puny red dwarf, it would still look 17 times larger from GJ 1214 b than the sun does in our sky.

A rotating star, in fact, can support a mass larger than if it was nonrotating, simply because the additional centrifugal force can help balance the gravitational force.

«For instance, the «brown dwarf desert,» an unexplained paucity of objects that are larger than giant planets but smaller than stars.

Van Eylen's planets matched the second picture: The largest of the rocky planets nestled close to the stars were bigger than the distant ones.

Note that this sketch is not to scale — to make Proxima b clearly visible it has been shown further from the star and larger than it is in reality.

While neutron stars have a slightly larger mass than our Sun, their diameter is only a few 10 km.

While our daytime star has a diameter about 400 times larger than that of the moon, it also lies roughly 400 times farther away.

A thin shell of hydrogen continues to burn, heating the star's atmosphere and causing it to expand into a so - called red giant, whose radius can be 1000 times larger than the original star's.

Larger stars — those with more than about eight solar masses — will explode as supernovas.

The object, if it exists, orbits a planet slightly larger than Jupiter around a star about 4,000 light - years away.

Neutron stars are dense stellar corpses with masses «only» a little larger than the Sun crammed into a city - size sphere.

Pulsars form when stars at least 1.4 times larger than our sun blow up in supernovas; these powerful explosions usually knock nearby stars out

Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just, as the authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs win academic jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.

The largest stars die in explosions more powerful than anyone thought possible — some triggered in part by the production of antimatter

The star Kepler 36 has two planets: an inner rocky world slightly larger than Earth, and an outer gas giant about the size of Neptune.

Larger stars are thought to explode with less energy than smaller ones, Fryer says.

A top - ranked researcher who moves to a new department, especially one of less than premier standing, exerts a «large overall star effect,» they write.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

«For example, small stars live a lot longer than larger stars,» Kane explained, «and so that means there is a much longer period of time for biological evolution and biochemical reactions on the surface to take place.»

They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.

When that materialmostly particles no larger than grains of sandcomes into contact with our planet's atmosphere it burns up, creating meteors, or shooting stars.

«Five billion years from now, the Sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size,» says Professor Leen Decin from the KU Leuven Institute of Astronomy.

In «Astronomers Make a Map of a Super Saturn's Rings,» from the January issue of Scientific American, the Leiden University astronomer Matthew Kenworthy tells the story of discovering a ring system some 200 times larger than Saturn's around the distant star J1407.

One of them, presently known only as KOI - 7235.01, looks to be only 15 percent larger than Earth, and orbits right in the middle of its star's habitable zone.

No one yet knows whether any planets orbit Alpha Centauri A or B, but because both stars are so much larger and brighter than Proxima, their habitable zones are much further out, allowing any as - yet - undiscovered worlds to be more easily seen.

The formation process of high - mass stars which have masses larger than 10 times solar mass still has much to be explored.

But some stars with multiple planets, including Kepler - 437 and KOI - 4427, might have astrospheres much larger than the sun's.