Sentences with phrase «material around other stars»

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The Gemini Planet Imager GPI is an advanced instrument designed to observe the environments close to bright stars to detect and study Jupiter - like exoplanets (planets around other stars) and see protostellar material (disk, rings) that might be lurking next to the star.

My research focuses on the formation of terrestrial planets in our Solar System and around other stars, especially with regards to the delivery of water and other biologically - important materials.

Previous observations of other hot Jupiter - class planets (HD 189733 b and unpublished data for HD 209458 b) have found that their hot spots may be shifted slightly away from the closest point to the star, possibly due to strong winds moving hot, gaseous material around.

Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.