Sentences with phrase «massive young stars»

This is the most massive young star for which such a disk has yet been found.

In addition to this strong radiation, massive young stars also produce powerful stellar winds that eventually cause the gas around them to disperse and stream away.

The scientists speculate that the gas may be blown outward by the strong stellar winds and supernova explosions from numerous massive young stars in a cluster.

«We believe that galactic cosmic rays come from groups of massive young stars called OB associations,» Binns says.

Black holes are monsters that supposedly consume everything that comes close to them, yet the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars nearby.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured wispy streams of dust, flowing like spider's legs from the centre of the nebula, where massive young stars are forming.

And then there are equally common «starburst» galaxies, in which a brilliant stream of light is produced by the rapid burning and eventual explosive death of millions of massive young stars created together at each galaxy's core.

In any case, any developing carbon - based life on a developing Earth - type planet would be subject to tremendous heat on a newly formed planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young stars.

A computer model developed by the team suggests that the grains must reach the size of boulders within a million years; otherwise, the dust particles and circumstellar gases will be blown apart by fierce ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's hottest, most massive young stars.

Based on data taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the model takes into account how energy flows between two regions around the black hole — an inner core close to the boundary beyond which light can not escape (the event horizon) and an outer ring that extends far out and includes the massive young stars lurking near the black hole.

Astronomers have spied magnetic activity surrounding a massive young star in the Orion Nebula (inset), a hot spot of such activity in the Milky Way.

Using its latest camera, Hubble shows a wider and sharper view of the Eagle Nebula's «Pillars of Creation,» immense columns of cold gas bathed in the ultraviolet light of nearby massive young stars.

Massive young stars are forming from dense accumulations of gas and dust, shining at blue wavelengths.