Sentences with phrase «luminous star»

He is a luminous star; the kooky individuals who jam with him planets that are irrevocably drawn into his orbit.

¬ † What drives people back to Winter's Bone is the heroic and likable qualities of its luminous star, Jennifer Lawrence.

The longer the pulsation period of one of these yellow supergiants, the more luminous the star; so measuring the period determines the star's true, or intrinsic, brightness.

The center of mass will trace a straight line against the stellar background and thus the luminous star will trace a sinusoidal path.

Then as now, astronomers estimated the distances to galaxies by studying Cepheid variables, an unusual class of stars whose brightness rises and falls predictably: The longer the period of variation, the more luminous the star.

The longer the period, she found, the more luminous the star.

The once - dim protostar will have then become a fully luminous star.

ETA CARINAE The most luminous star in our galaxy is dimmed by obscuring matter and by its great distance — 7,000 light - years away.

The star, named V838 Monocerotis, suddenly inflated into a cool supergiant in January and February 2002, growing 10,000 times brighter and becoming the most luminous star in our galaxy for about 40 days.

Just like the GJ436b, these might have been hot Neptunes orbiting around more luminous stars which would have circulated in their atmosphere that ended up leaving the rocky centre of the planet bare.

This region of space houses one of the highest concentrations of massive, luminous stars in the entire Milky Way — a spectacular family of young, bright, white - blue stars.

«We're missing the brightest and most luminous stars, the ones that are going to become supernovae in the future,» he said.

The Milky Way is likewise escorted by at least a half dozen small galaxies trapped by the gravitational epoxy of dark matter, which is scattered all through and around our galaxy's luminous stars.

Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and luminous stars known, is tearing itself apart.

In addition, hundreds of individual young, luminous stars can be seen throughout the galaxy.

Within that enormous sphere, astronomers have detected at least 7.38 Solar - masses of visible matter bound up in 11 luminous stars and one weakly glowing white dwarf.

With luminous stars of this type there need not be very many to make up a highly luminous and conspicuous grouping.

1806 - 20 contains at least three Wolf - Rayet stars, an OB supergiant, the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806 - 20 and LBV 1806 - 20, once of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way.

(Cepheid variables, named after Delta Cephei in Cepheus constellation, are very luminous stars that have a direct relationship between their luminosity and pulsation period, which makes these stars important standard candles for establishing distance scales.)

Unfortunately, as you can tell, we arrived at the location surrounded by dark stillness... which was sort of creepy but mostly cool, with the air being ultimately «cinematic» (as Olivia would repeat throughout the night) and the sky being blanketed with luminous stars and all.

Her reflection on space in this installation is emphasized through the term «Lyrae», invoking the instrument and the constellation in which shines Vega, one of the most luminous stars in the night sky.

Not exact matches

You aren't too much; like the stars are never too bright, like the moon is never too large or luminous, like the wonders of the world are never too much.

Join us on our quest to chart the luminous bodies and fading stars in the ever - changing universe of the college game

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory).

Of the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular cluster.

Of the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements — such as sodium, magnesium, zirconium, barium — as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular cluster.

By learning about the change that the first stars and galaxies imposed on the universe, Hewitt said, HERA will help scientists figure out if the larger picture — the story — that they've pieced together about the emergence of luminous objects in the cosmos is correct.

At this stage some stars become luminous blue variables, so called because they go through episodic changes in brightness, including brilliant outbursts that look a lot like supernovae.

Scientists think that when the first stars were born, these luminous objects and the galaxies they formed eventually pumped out X-rays and ultraviolet radiation that ripped electrons from their proton partners.

He persuaded Caltech to install an 18 - inch Schmidt telescope that became the first astronomical instrument on Mount Palomar, and soon national media were regularly keeping a running tab of how many «star suicides» his survey of the heavens had discovered and how bright they were: 400 to 600 million times as luminous as the sun.

The shock wave seems to need an extra kick to make it out of the star and produce the luminous explosion.

These so - called hyper - luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when galaxies first formed — and may represent one of the most - extreme examples of violent star formation ever observed.

Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close - up here: One is a yellow - white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.

Subsequently bits and pieces swirl into the black hole and thus produce huge flares of radiation that can be as luminous as all the rest of the stars in the host galaxy for a period of a few months to a year.

Deneb is tied with Orion's foot star, Rigel, as the most luminous bright star in the heavens — a white supergiant, more dazzling than the famous red variety.

Numerical simulations of collapsing clouds of primordial gas indicate that the first luminous objects to form in the universe were isolated massive stars.

One of the telescopes involved in the collaboration, based in Chile, was ideally located for Kilpatrick to be among the first to look at the patch of sky LIGO had identified and capture, just 17 hours after the gravitational wave signal, the luminous spot that emerged from the colliding neutron stars.

The explosion was a Type Ia supernova, the most luminous variety, which occurred when a small, dense star known as a white dwarf blew up about 7000 light - years from Earth.

Slowly, star after star abandons the satellite, leaving a luminous trace on the sky, and thus revealing the satellite's orbit.

Olsen thinks the infalling gas hit 30 Doradus, causing it to grow large and luminous by fueling the formation of new stars.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

However, Kepler - 69c's host star is about 80 percent as luminous as the sun, so the planet appears to be in the habitable zone.

«How can a quasar so luminous, and a black hole so massive, form so early in the history of the universe, at an era soon after the earliest stars and galaxies have just emerged?»

But if the star is much farther away than that, it is far more luminous than previously believed — and then the dimming could be a return to normalcy after a merger, as Metzger's team has suggested.

The universe stayed dark, without any luminous sources, until gravity condensed matter into the first stars and galaxies.

In particular, the CDF - S source is likely associated with the complete destruction of a neutron star or white dwarf, and is roughly 100,000 times more luminous in X-rays.

Named V838 Monocerotis, it was more luminous than normal novae — at peak brightness, it briefly rivaled the most powerful stars in the Galaxy.

Throughout its three - month life span, the plant now emits a green glow that's about as luminous as a glow - in - the - dark stick - on star.

More than just Orion's brightest star, Rigel is among the most luminous objects in the galaxy, shining with the light of 55,000 suns.

And they are sprayed with collections of different - sized black dots rather than the luminous, silvery stars that actually shine above our heads.