Sentences with phrase «massive giant stars»

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Also in the picture are amber - glowing red giants, stars that have used up all their fuel and have swollen up to a massive size.

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«If this star's companion truly is a neutron star, that would mean that the neutron star was once a giant, massive star that underwent its own supernova explosion in the past,» said Binder.

Or maybe, others said, the first stars were strange, short - lived and supermassive giants, far brighter and hundreds or even a thousand times more massive than our sun.

Some of the stars still shine with a hot bluish colour, but many of the more massive ones have become red giants and glow with a rich orange hue.

There they found the flung - out debris from the explosive birth of this clump of massive stars, looking like a cosmic version of fireworks with giant streamers rocketing off in all directions.

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

The planets without nearby massive stars would remain gas giants.

(Prior simulations of the primordial universe had suggested that the first stars were mostly lone giants, up to 300 times as massive as our sun.)

Three planets were discovered, two orbiting stars similar to the Sun and one orbiting a more massive and evolved red giant star.

Even more remarkably, stars in the throes of birth also seem to exhale giant, peanut - shaped bubbles of gas, called outflows, 100 times more massive than our sun.

Gas - giant planets more massive than Jupiter — as well as «failed stars» called brown dwarfs — should conversely have much shallower winds.

But astronomers have always wondered about the paucity of close - in brown dwarfs: While many giant planets have been found in small orbits, whirling around their sunlike stars in just a few days, the more massive brown dwarfs appear to shun these intimate relationships.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

Giant clouds of molecular gas — the most massive objects in our galaxy — are the birthplaces of stars.

With their gas depleted, it may be impossible for the disks around stars in massive clusters to form giant planets like Jupiter or Saturn.

Gas surrounds a giant black hole in the early universe in this radio image, but astronomers see little evidence for a massive galaxy of stars.

Black holes and their host galaxies have a tight relationship: Regardless of their size, the central swarms of stars in galaxies are always about 500 times more massive than the giant black holes they contain (ScienceNOW, 5 June 2000).

In addition to clarifying what proportion of black holes are born without fanfare, the survey may also detect rare, giant outbursts from massive stars that are close to going supernova.

Here, we show that the ~ 10 - million - year - old β Pictoris system hosts a massive giant planet, β Pictoris b, located 8 to 15 astronomical units from the star.

According to this model, the violent wind that creates a planetary nebula is also the engine that transforms a bloated red giant into the burnt - out cinder of a white dwarf, a metamorphosis common to all stars of low and intermediate mass — stars up to eight times more massive than the sun.

Given the massive concentrations of giant, hot stars clustered around the center, could we at least call ourselves a starburst galaxy?

Brown dwarfs are smaller than stars, but more massive than giant planets.

The new study suggests that the «hot Jupiter» WASP - 18b, a massive planet that orbits very close to its host star, has an unusual composition, and the formation of this world might have been quite different from that of Jupiter as well as gas giants in other planetary systems.

Towards the end of their lives, massive stars expand rapidly and become red giants or supergiants, like Betelgeuse in the Orion constellation.

Scientists study these celestial giants in order to understand how some of the largest and most massive stars in the universe evolve.

Despite being nearly three times as massive as Jupiter, the new planet (KELT - 9b) is only half as dense as the gas giant, as the radiation from its host star has caused its atmosphere to expand, the authors said.

The Earth and moon can serve as giant detectors for ripples in the fabric of space - time known as gravitational waves, which are given off by stars, black holes and other massive objects in deep space, researchers say.

These gas giants orbit tightly around their host stars, and despite their name, they're typically more massive than Jupiter.

A team of astronomers has used the Precision Integrated - Optice Near - infrared Imaging ExpeRiment (PIONIER) instrument mounted aboard the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to image the massive red giant star.

AO has measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors.

The iconic photo of the so - called «Pillars of Creation» reveals never - before - seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula.

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.

This technique is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting hundreds of millions of kilometres from their star and has also been used to discover a population of free - floating giant planets that do not orbit any star.

As the star is more massive than Sol, it has evolved faster into a helium - burning «clump» giant, possibly within five to eight billion years since hydrogen ignition (see Kaler's Stars page on Arcturus).

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

Finally, as a short - period outlier among giant planets orbiting giant stars, study of Kepler - 432b may help explain the distribution of massive planets orbiting giant stars interior to 1 AU.

Brown dwarfs are more massive and hotter than giant gas planets but lack the mass required to become sizzling stars.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

Supernovae are giant stars that end their lives by exploding in a massive outpouring of light.

MARVELS is predicted to discover around a hundred new giant planets, as well as potentially finding a similar number of «brown dwarfs» that are intermediate between the most massive planets and the smallest stars.

Giant monsters rise from the depths of the Pacific Ocean and must be stopped by equally massive, soldier - driven robots in a 3D, action - filled, big - budget spectacle starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, and Charlie Day.

Duncan Jones (of Moon, Source Code) directs this massive fantasy epic, involving a giant battle between Orcs and Humans, starring Travis Fimmel, Robert Kazinsky, Ben Foster, Paula Patton & Dominic Cooper.

The giant SUV has received new headlights, a daring double - bar radiator grille with the massive central three - pointed star logo taking center stage and a new bumper.

At the center of this prison - space sits the Dead Star, a massive red giant corrupted by dark antimatter.

In 1995, astronomers confirmed that a massive gas giant planet was orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.