Sentences with phrase «largest known star»

The star UY Scuti, visible in the night sky as part of the constellation Scutum, is a red supergiant that, with a volume nearly five billion times larger than our Sun, is currently the leading candidate for being the largest known star by radius.

The star cluster R136 is already home to the largest known star in the universe, a giant more than 250 times the mass of the sun.

VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way.

The star VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way.

KW Sagittarii is one of the largest known stars.

Not exact matches

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.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

«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.

We know that RE's classes had a habit of having a few home runs, but with a large quantity of lower rated 3 stars.

I don't follow Wisconsin or Iowa recruiting enough to know, but I have always assumed that they pull a more consistent 3 - star rated player and therefore likely have a larger pool of players that will be able to compete, though not necessarily be stars.

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.

Aside from President Barack Obama, Clinton is the Democratic Party's biggest star and a guaranteed fundraiser known for drawing large crowds to events.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Two of the nation's largest and best - known corporations are lobbying in support of a bill that would waive sales taxes on purchases of some computers, back - to - school supplies and Energy Star products one weekend a year.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

As part of the VLT - FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS), the team used ESO's Very Large Telescope to observe nearly 1,000 massive stars in 30 Doradus, a gigantic stellar nursery also known as the Tarantula Nebula.

«We know very well that black holes can be formed by the collapse of large stars, or as we have seen recently, the merger of two neutron stars,» said Savvas Koushiappas, an associate professor of physics at Brown University and coauthor of the study with Avi Loeb from Harvard University.

Now that Boyajian knows that the WTF star is uniquely strange, that large, engaged community is coming to her aid again.

The «sun» of this solar system is Barnard's star, otherwise known chiefly for having the largest motion across the sky of any star.

«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.

One reason is that when enough mass is concentrated in a small enough space — as, for instance, in a large star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel — no force known can resist the implosive force of gravity.

Kerberos was one of two little satellites that Star Trek actor William Shatner hoped would be named Vulcan, after the home world of Mr. Spock; although Shatner didn't get his wish, he might be pleased to know that craters on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, have been tentatively named Kirk, Spock, Sulu, and Uhura, all located in a region called Vulcan Planum.

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.

For the past two years, a group calling itself the MACHO collaboration, which includes astronomers in the US, Australia and Britain, has monitored the brightness of stars in the central «bulge» of our Galaxy and in a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The scaffolding that holds the large - scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in complex networks known as the cosmic web.

Mira, in the sprawling constellation Cetus, also delights observers: this famous supergiant contracts and expands like a runaway balloon to become one of the largest stars known.

By supplementing the missing star - forming material, the approved ALMA Large Program will complete our view of the well - known galaxies in the iconic HUDF.

Astronomers know that while large stars can end their lives as violently cataclysmic supernovae, smaller stars end up as planetary nebulae — colourful, glowing clouds of dust and gas.

Although the name has persisted, now we know that they are in fact the end states of low mass stars, and would only involve planets if a binary companion in one of the accretion scenarios above were in fact a large planet.

Astronomers at the University of Minnesota have identified the largest known void in the universe, a cosmological no - man's - land where stars, planets, and even dark matter are mysteriously absent.

Whatever laws they broke to get so big, it makes sense that the largest stars ever known would be found in a place of extreme star birth.

From her perspective, though, the real interest lies in a much larger but sparser spherical cloud of stars, known as the spheroid, surrounding such galaxies.

Red supergiants are the largest type of star known, and Betelgeuse, part of the Orion constellation, is a formidable member of that class.

Although smaller than the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud boasts something our own galaxy can't match: Its greatest star - forming region, named 30 Doradus, spans 700 light - years — 28 times the size of the Orion Nebula, the best - known stellar nursery in the Milky Way.

The term neutron star refers to the gravitationally collapsed core of a large star; neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars known.

These rare systems — only a few tens were known until recently — were thought to have had their outer coats of stars ripped away by the gravity of other, larger galaxies as they passed nearby, a theory supported by the fact that they were usually found in the centers of large clusters of galaxies.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

The traditional view held that a white dwarf, locked in a binary pairing with another star, sucked matter from its companion, growing ever larger in size until it could no longer support its own weight.

The Kepler 11 system is unique for several reasons: For starters, it is among the largest collections of worlds known outside our own solar system, and all six of the planets Kepler has found there are aligned so that their orbits carry them across the face of their host star from Kepler's vantage point.

It was once possible to confuse faint dwarf galaxies like Segue 2 with globular clusters — tightly bound clumps of stars that are also known to orbit larger galaxies like the Milky Way.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

Until now, scientists were pretty sure they knew how the surface of a neutron star — a super dense star that forms when a large star explodes and its core collapses into itself — can heat itself up.

The two planets are members of a large class of extrasolar planets known as «hot Jupiters» because they are gaseous like Jupiter but orbit closely to their stars, giving them high temperatures of 1,000 to 2,000 kelvins.

Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies.

Explanation: In the center of star - forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

With less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, Proxima is so small that it can transport core heat to its surface only through convection, unlike larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A — also known as Wolf 1055 A or Van Biesbroeck's Star (more).

At its core is a large cluster of stars known as R 136, in which some of the most massive stars known are located.

The 30 Doradus nebula is one of the largest star - formation regions known, and has been creating unusually strong episodes of star formation every few million years.

We know that the best shape for a large interstellar spacecraft is not like the fictional Starship Enterprise of Star Trek fame, but more likely is elongated to minimize the damage from collisions with interstellar dust.