Sentences with phrase «massive star systems»

All of the massive star systems, blackholes, billions of galaxies everything just for us mere humans?

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«That would mean that this is a really rare system at an early stage of formation,» said Binder, «and we could learn a lot about how massive stars form and die by continuing to study this unique pairing.»

Many supernova impostors appear to be massive stars in a binary system — two stars in orbit of one another.

The energy spectrum and periodic fluctuations of the X-rays, recorded by the INTEGRAL satellite, suggest they are coming from young binary star systems in which a neutron star is stealing matter from its massive companion.

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 system, called POX 186, is a puny collection of perhaps 10 million stars — just 1/10, 000 as massive as our Milky Way.

NASA is sketching out plans to send a probe to visit Alpha Centauri, our nearest star system, along with a massive telescope to watch its journey from home

For more than 30 years, astronomers have known that Vega has a massive belt of cold dust far from the star, analogous to our solar system's Kuiper Belt.

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark matter.

The situation, says former LHCb spokesperson and University of Oxford physicist Guy Wilkinson, is roughly analogous to a planetary system in which the light quark is akin to a planet orbiting a binary pair of massive stars.

Overall, supernovas are rare, but as the solar system circles through the Milky Way, it sometimes passes through one of our galaxy's spiral arms, where large numbers of massive stars form and explode as supernovas.

Some of the very massive stars that populated the early universe exploded completely, sowing the seeds of future stars, solar systems and galaxies

They suggested that the magnetar formed through the interactions of two very massive stars orbiting one another in a binary system so compact that it would fit within the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.

But a low - mass star can not have the size exceeding the size of a more massive companion in that double system, and would it be smaller, the eclipse would not take place at all, as you can not hide a larger object behind a smaller one.»

The binary interaction model where a companion star is present is gaining traction because astronomers realize that at least 70 percent of massive stars are members of double - star systems.

At the same meeting, astronomer Thomas Beatty of Ohio State University, Columbus, announced the discovery of just such a system with the small KELT telescope in Arizona: a brown dwarf 27 times as massive as Jupiter, orbiting its hot parent star every 30 hours.

«There is strong evidence that our own solar system was born near a massive star that went supernova,» Bally says.

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.

Astronomers used to debate whether the worlds of our solar system arose from a massive sheet of gas ripped out of our young sun during a near encounter with a passing star; that extended filament then supposedly clumped into 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.

The two stars in the system — one about three times more massive than the sun and the other a little less massive — are so close to each other that one orbit takes only 3 days.

The simplest one is that two massive stars were born as a binary - star system, forming from the same interstellar gas cloud like a double - yolked egg, and orbiting each other ever since.

In such a cluster, massive stars would sink towards the centre and, through complex interactions with lighter stars, form binary systems, possibly long after their transformation into black holes.

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.

A star with multiple planets around it is gravitationally stable, according to the theory, while a star that is part of a close - knit system of stars would have a more unstable system because of each star's massive gravity.

Without ALMA it would have been impossible to better characterize the accretion in this massive star and determine whether it is part of a binary system,» Guzmán concluded.

The vast majority of solar systems that have been discovered are very different from our own, with massive planets close to their stars, said co-author James Larkin, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy.

Hiramatsu: Actually, there were collisions of meteorites in the history, but an extreme example would be that if a massive star close to our solar system had a supernova explosion at the end of its life, the Earth's atmospheres could have been blown off completely.

Astronomers analyzing nearly 20 years of data from the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope have discovered that a small star in a multiple - star system in the constellation Taurus probably has been ejected from the system after a close encounter with one of the system's more - massive components, presumed to be a compact double star.

From their massive survey of stars near the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, these astronomers found evidence that the Milky Way probably has a definitive, large bar feature measuring about 27,000 light - years in length, making it look as shown in above illustration, where the position of our solar system is indicated.

Clusters smaller and less massive than the globular clusters are found in the plane of the Galaxy intermixed with the majority of the system's stars, including the Sun.

«When we discovered this pulsar in 2009, we noticed that it was in the same direction as this massive star in the constellation Cygnus, but our initial measurements did not give any evidence that either star was a member of a binary system,» Paul Ray, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, said, in a statement released Thursday.

First came the realization that our solar system lay swaddled within the arms of a massive body of stars.

However, the recent discovery by the ALMA radio telescope of a planet - forming disk more than 100 astronomical units from the star HL Tauri, which is younger than the Sun and more massive, suggests that planets can form several hundred astronomical units away from the centre of the system.

Past calculations of orbital elements and system mass ratios based on astrometry (and other visual observations) and the spectral type of Star Ba (G0 - 5) indicate that HD 98230 b is not massive enough to fully account for subsystem B, and suggest the existence of a stellar companion (i.e., Bc).

The spectra indicate a system of evolved stars with nearly equal masses (q = 1.02), where one component shows significant line profile variations while the profiles of the slightly more massive component are constant.

So that means the white dwarf in this system probably came from a star slightly more massive than the A star that has the debris disk, maybe a B type star.

The detected burst is believed to have come from one jet of particles and gamma radiation that was fortuitously aimed towards the Solar System, one of two bi-polar jets which erupted from the implosion of a massive star that also created a black hole (see GRB animation).

Now that this oddball star system has been discovered, astronomers hope to find more examples, so they can understand how massive worlds like NGTS - 1b evolve around tiny red dwarfs.

Past calculations of orbital elements and system mass ratios based on astrometry — and other visual observations — and the spectral type of Star Ba (G0 - 5) indicate that Xi Ursae Majoris Bb is not massive enough to fully account for subsystem B (e.g., Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1996, page 411), and suggest the existence of a stellar companion (i.e., Bc).

«This result strengthens the connection between multiple star systems and massive planets,» said Roberts.

These waves can reach observable amplitudes when a binary system consisting of two especially massive objects — i.e., black holes or neutron stars — reach the end of their inspiral and merge.

It suggests either that massive star formation produce a wide range of systems, or that several binary formation mechanisms are at play.

Researchers using data from Hubble's now - retired Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) have identified two types of blue stragglers in Messier 30: those that form in near head - on collisions with one another and those that are in twin (or binary) systems where the less massive star siphons «life - giving» hydrogen from its more massive companion.

Taking place just as the long - essential studio system was undergoing massive changes, the film positions Johansson's gravelly - voiced synchronized swimming star as emblematic of a system still woefully stuck in the past.

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