Sentences with phrase «luminous stars»
"Luminous stars" refers to stars that are very bright and emit a lot of light compared to other stars. Full definition
This is a map of the most luminous stars within 2000 light years.
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The longer the period, she found, the more luminous the star.
The first luminous stars and their host galaxies, however, did not emerge until a few hundred million years later.
A star remains near its initial position on the main sequence until a significant amount of hydrogen in the core has been consumed, then begins to evolve into a more luminous star.
The most luminous stars in stellar associations are very young stars of spectral types O and B.
^ Humphreys, R. M. 1978, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Studies of luminous stars in nearby galaxies.
Being brighter than one million Suns, Eta Carinae (the brightest star in this image) is the most luminous star known in the Galaxy, and has most likely a mass over 100 times that of the Sun.
Important Paper: Herndon, J. M., New concept for internal heat production in hot Jupiter exo - planets, thermonuclear ignition of dark galaxies, and the basis for galactic luminous star distributions.
Now, Herndon points the way toward understanding for the first time galactic luminous star distributions, which are a prominent, common feature of galaxies, making the galaxies appear as they do.
With luminous stars of this type there need not be very many to make up a highly luminous and conspicuous grouping.
A very luminous star could appear dim if it is far enough away or is partly obscured by gaseous clouds and interstellar dust.
The range of star types that can support Earth - type life on planets may be limited to those lower mass stars that «live» long enough as stable luminous stars for planets to form and complex life to evolve.
«We live right next to this bloody luminous star called the sun,» says Disney.
The once - dim protostar will have then become a fully luminous star.
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.
«The Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 million light years away so even its most luminous stars generally appear quite faint from our vantage point.
«A study of reddened luminous stars in the Southern Milky Way.
The most luminous stars emit several million solar luminosities.
On Chesil Beach A beautifully made film about the fraught honeymoon of a young couple who are very much in love and very much at sea, it reunites novelist Ian McEwan («Atonement») and luminous star Saoirse Ronan, under the able and discreet direction of Dominic Cooke.
Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and luminous stars known, is tearing itself apart.
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.
(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.)
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.
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.
ETA CARINAE The most luminous star in our galaxy is dimmed by obscuring matter and by its great distance — 7,000 light - years away.
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.
One of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright stars in the Milky Way, this cluster houses some of the most luminous stars in our entire galaxy.
«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.
The center of mass will trace a straight line against the stellar background and thus the luminous star will trace a sinusoidal path.
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.
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.
New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show in unprecedented detail the spiral arms and dust clouds of a nearby galaxy, the birth sites of massive and luminous stars.
Similar to Eta Carinae in brightness, the Pistol Star is one of the most luminous stars in the Local Group of galaxies surrounding the Milky Way (Figer et al, 1995).
The star forming nebula NGC 3372 has produced the very conspicuous peculiar star Eta Carinae, which is among the most massive and luminous stars in our Milky Way, and perhaps in the universe.
This diagram called a Hertsprung - Russell or H - R diagram revealed that most of the stars lie along a smooth diagonal curve called the main sequence with hot, luminous stars in the upper left and cool, dim stars in the lower right.
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.
Kapur escapes this fate by relying on sex and a luminous star capable of being at once regal and alluring.
Some might say that a (mostly) silent, black - and - white pastiche from a little - known French director is a dark horse at best for major awards recognition, but the film is more accessible than it sounds: a proven audience charmer, powered by a luminous star turn from Jean Dujardin, that should gain a lot of new fans in Toronto.
¬ † What drives people back to Winter's Bone is the heroic and likable qualities of its luminous star, Jennifer Lawrence.
He is a luminous star; the kooky individuals who jam with him planets that are irrevocably drawn into his orbit.
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.