Sentences with phrase «most ancient stars»

The object, known as SDSS J0104 +1535, is a member of the so - called halo — the outermost reaches - of our Galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars.

The object, known as SDSS J0104 +1535, is a member of the so - called halo — the outermost reaches — of our Galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars.

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Most globular clusters are judged to be ancient because the stars in them suffer from a sort of cosmic anemia — they contain very few metals.

If this way of forming is common, then these black holes may be the fossil remnants of the gigantic stars that are the most ancient in the universe.

So far, however, the most remote, ancient galaxies they can see have all seemed tiny — much smaller than our own mature galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars.

Most of the galaxy's stars, including the sun, reside in a thin, pancake - shaped disk, but ancient stars populate a halo surrounding the disk.

That lack of iron suggests that Keller's Star, as it's known, could be the most ancient yet, possibly dating back to 200 million years after the Big Bang.

Probing the finer details of those ancient, extragalactic stars» chemical structures would take many years, even with the most powerful telescopes on Earth or in space.

The Milky Way's dense globular clusters are spherical swarms of red, lightweight and ancient stars, most of them more than 10 billion years old.

The crayon was found near Lake Flixton, an ancient lake that has been in - filled with peat helping preserve Great Britain's most important Mesolithic site, Star Carr.

So far, only about 10 percent of known pulsars are believed to be part of binary systems — most of them orbiting ancient white dwarf stars.

«People most often associate stellar explosions with ancient stars, like a nova eruption on the surface of a decaying star or the even more spectacular supernova death of an extremely massive star,» Bally says.

It happened so long ago, and that first light from those ancient baby stars is far too weak for even the most advanced observatory to detect.

The most ancient exoplanet detected so far (PSR B1620 - 26 b) has had a rather unusual history, first born 12.7 billion years ago outside of a «globular cluster» of stars (a comparatively older, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation), it then migrated closer to the cluster and into a rough astrophysical neighborhood.

Unfortunately, the general, like most evildoers, is surprisingly resourceful and manages to escape using the power of an ancient artifact called the Dragon Star.

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

In his last appearance, Lon Chaney, Jr. stars as one of the screen's most memorable movie monsters: the mummy Kharis from ancient Egypt, who is tormented by his forbidden love for princess Ananka.

Heritage Lodge & Spa — This 3 1/2 star Lodge is located 18 km over the Daintree River, almost exactly at the midpoint of the Daintree Cape Tribulation Rainforest Coast — This section of the Daintree rainforest is where the world's most ancient rainforest meets the reef.

Delving back to ancient sacred geometries and that most ubiquitous of forms, the Star of David, may seem too obvious a reference for the Jewish Museum, which was faced with the task of designing a new graphic identity.