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Known as the Tarantula Nebula, this stormy area encompasses 2,400 massive stars at its center, all producing intense radiation and powerful winds as they blow off material.

Circumstellar medium around rotating massive stars at solar metallicity.

He said that scientists assume most stellar - remnant black holes — which result from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives — will be about the same mass as our sun.

A supernova is the name given to the birth of an extremely bright, brilliant star, caused by the spectacular explosion of a massive star at the end of its life.

«Scientists Trace Heat Wave to Massive Star at Center of Solar System,» The Onion, August 8, 2011, http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientists-trace-heat-wave-to-massive-star-at-cent,21088/; Comedy image by Booyabazook under GFDL 55.

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The waters came from inside the earth (actually «under» would probably be a better translation because the earth was considered pretty flat at this time) and a massive canopy of hovering water that existed between the atmosphere and the massive hard dome (the firmament) that contained the fixed stars.

«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.

Black holes do indeed exist... we even have photographic evidence of stars whipping around an invisible (thus black) massive gravitational point at the core of our own galaxy.

Brandon Johns, a four - star Michigan forward pledge, is putting up massive numbers to his senior campaign at Lansing Sexton: I've seen...

Brandon Johns, a four - star Michigan forward pledge, is putting up massive numbers to his senior campaign at Lansing Sexton:

The Portuguese manager has fallen out with a number of Real Madrid stars and perhaps his best hope of keeping his job was clinching the Champions League title and the chances of that occurring have been dealt a massive blow with the Spanish club's 4 - 1 defeat at Borussia Dortmund.

If true, that will be a massive boost for Conte, as the Roma stars will address two key issues with the current Chelsea squad in terms of bolstering their attacking options and adding quality and cover at left back.

At the tender age of 20 and with a massive 6» 5 ″ frame, Sule has the potential to develop into a star — and he may be exactly the kind of player Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp wants to bring to his side next season.

The Daily Star is reporting the latest news, as revealed by a South American journalist and massive fan of Real Madrid with sources at the club, is that Real Madrid have now let it be known that they will sell Benzema this summer.

But according to our other big German star, Shkodran Mustafi, there is no reason why we should be overawed at facing the Bundesliga giants — as we are used to playing against massive sides in the Premier League on a regular basis.

The chances of the Arsenal and England international star Theo Walcott starting against Estonia at Wembley on Friday have just taken a massive turn for the better, after the England captain and regular centre forward Wayne Rooney was forced to miss the latest training session after picking up an ankle injury.

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The Auburndale Senior star has a massive wingspan at 6» 5, 220.

Five - star Miles Bridges, who recently released his final five schools (Michigan, Michigan State, Kentucky, North Carolina and Indiana), stole the show at this weekend's Nike Peach Jam event with this massive windmill dunk.

He's a massive fan of Begovic and tried to sign him twice during his time at Chelsea, says the Daily Star.

Monaco on the other hand were relieved that Sidibe and Glik chose to remain at the club as a lot of other stars are in danger of being swooped up by massive clubs.

An emotional ex-Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah has thanked Ghanaians for the massive show of support during his farewell game at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday.

«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.»

«The gas which forms the major part of the insterstellar medium,» explains Jorge García Rojas, a researcher at the IAC who is the first author on the paper «can be observed because its atoms are ionized by the photons emitted by the hot stars embedded inside it (which can either very massive stars, or white dwarfs, which are also very hot).

Astronomer Melina Bersten and her colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata in Argentina soon learned of the serendipitous discovery and realized that Buso had caught a rare event, part of the first hour after light emerges from a massive exploding star.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

The spiral shape is commonplace, with a massive black hole at the centre, surrounded by a bulge of old stars, and arms winding outwards where relatively young stars like the Sun are found.

Others were triggered when a star at least eight times as massive as the sun blows itself apart.

This image shows the most common type of gamma - ray burst, thought to occur when a massive star collapses, forms a black hole, and blasts particle jets outward at nearly the speed of light.

«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational CosMassive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmassive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.

It doesn't necessarily make sense, said Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State, that a massive star could undergo a supernova — a process which entails blowing off much of its outer layers — and still have enough mass left over to form a massive black hole on the scale of those that LIGO detected.

For the last few years, he has studied a gaggle of extremely fast - moving stars, stellar runaways that were long ago flung out of the Milky Way by the massive black hole at its center.

The massive star Sirius, for example, is just over twice as far away as Alpha Centauri — but because it shines some 25 times brighter than our sun, it offers a stronger radiation - pressure braking effect, allowing light sails to approach at much higher speeds.

Astronomers had long debated whether globular clusters were massive enough for black holes to form, either when the clusters condensed in the early universe or when gas and stars accumulated at their cores.

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.

At least one source of these bright, brief blasts of radio energy may be a young neutron star assisted by a nearby massive black hole, new research suggests.

This will let them finally determine just how massive the Milky Way really is, potentially yielding new insights into our galaxy's inventory of stars, dark matter and small satellites that lurk at its edges.

This famous object, the birthplace of many massive stars, is one of the closest stellar nurseries, at a distance of about 1350 light - years.

The white blob at the center contains a massive black hole surrounded by infalling material, which, oddly, is not much brighter than some of the stars around it.

When a massive star runs out of fuel at the end of its life, it collapses and triggers a violent explosion known as a supernova.

Geologist John Michell wrote in a letter to the Royal Society that if a star were massive enough, «a body falling from an infinite height towards it would have acquired at its surface greater velocity than that of light... all light emitted from such a body would be made to return towards it by its own proper gravity».

Most astronomers believe that a quasar is a massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy, greedily sucking in stars and gas, which become so hot that they give off tremendous amounts of energy.

Josh Bloom, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, traced the burst to the center of a galaxy that hosts a black hole millions of times as massive as the sun, and concluded that the hole had just eaten a star - size meal (illustrated below).

A research group led by Aya Higuchi, a researcher at Ibaraki University, conducted observations of the massive - star forming region IRAS 16547 - 4247 with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

THE massive ITER reactor currently being built in southern France is nuclear fusion's great hope — but it won't harness the power of the stars until 2026 at the earliest.

«Compared to the central galaxies, it is the smaller gravitational pull of the satellite galaxies produced by their smaller mass, that results in a more efficient loss of gas and hence, a slow - down in star formation activity with respect to the more massive central galaxies» said Chris Martin, a professor of astronomy at Caltech.

The rate at which massive stars form drops sharply as you venture outward from the Milky Way's center, and the abundance of heavy elements falls with them.

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.