Sentences with phrase «most luminous stars»

Her reflection on space in this installation is emphasized through the term «Lyrae», invoking the instrument and the constellation in which shines Vega, one of the most luminous stars in the night sky.

1806 - 20 contains at least three Wolf - Rayet stars, an OB supergiant, the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806 - 20 and LBV 1806 - 20, once of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way.

«We're missing the brightest and most luminous stars, the ones that are going to become supernovae in the future,» he said.

The star, named V838 Monocerotis, suddenly inflated into a cool supergiant in January and February 2002, growing 10,000 times brighter and becoming the most luminous star in our galaxy for about 40 days.

ETA CARINAE The most luminous star in our galaxy is dimmed by obscuring matter and by its great distance — 7,000 light - years away.

Not exact matches

Of the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular cluster.

Of the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements — such as sodium, magnesium, zirconium, barium — as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular cluster.

These so - called hyper - luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when galaxies first formed — and may represent one of the most - extreme examples of violent star formation ever observed.

Deneb is tied with Orion's foot star, Rigel, as the most luminous bright star in the heavens — a white supergiant, more dazzling than the famous red variety.

The explosion was a Type Ia supernova, the most luminous variety, which occurred when a small, dense star known as a white dwarf blew up about 7000 light - years from Earth.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

Named V838 Monocerotis, it was more luminous than normal novae — at peak brightness, it briefly rivaled the most powerful stars in the Galaxy.

Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and luminous stars known, is tearing itself apart.

More than just Orion's brightest star, Rigel is among the most luminous objects in the galaxy, shining with the light of 55,000 suns.

We have created the most complete compilation so far of published measurements of the motion of gas and stars in the Milky Way, and compared the measured rotation speed with that expected under the assumption that only luminous matter exists in the Galaxy.

※ 2 See the ALMA news «Black - Hole - Powered Jets Forge Fuel for Star Formation» on February 15, 2017 ※ 3 See the ALMA news «Chaotic Turbulence Roiling «Most Luminous Galaxy» in the Universe» on February 18, 2016.

Galaxies undergoing such a burst of star formation are called starburst galaxies and they can be the among the most luminous of galaxies.

Then, by unveiling the nature of CR7 piece by piece, we understood that not only had we found by far the most luminous distant galaxy, but also started to realize that it had every single characteristic expected of Population III stars.

It continues through the Cygnus X complex of star formation regions, which includes Cyg OB2, one of the most luminous OB associations known in the local group of galaxies.

«This particular source of gamma rays was found towards an unusual cluster of stars which harbours one of the Milky Way's most massive and energetic young stars, a luminous blue variable star called LBV1806 - 20,» says Associate Professor Gavin Rowell, from the University of Adelaide's High Energy Astrophysics Group and leader of Australia's participation in HESS.

This Hubble composite image shows visible starlight as well as light from the emission of glowing hydrogen, which is associated with the most luminous young stars in the spiral arms.

Some are found in globular clusters, but most move in a huge cloud around the disk called the galactic halo, which has a luminous inner component defined by globular star clusters and other easily observable stars (with coronae of hot gas possibly expelled by supernovae and of high - velocity neutron stars) and an outer dark - matter component inferred from its gravitational impact on the Milky Way's spiral disk.

The star Gl 876, some fifteen light years away, is not a brown dwarf, but this M - dwarf is only 1.24 percent as luminous as the Sun, with most of its energy being released at infrared wavelengths.

Yet, the full star formation and enrichment history of a galaxy can be traced directly only if two key observables can be determined... ▽ More Red giant stars are perhaps the most important type of stars for Galactic and extra-galactic archaeology: they are luminous, occur in all stellar populations, and their surface temperatures allow precise abundance determinations for many different chemical elements.

O - type stars are very hot and extremely luminous, with most of their radiated output in the ultraviolet range.

As a star - auteur, he has always been the most important feature and effect of the series, although it's telling that Mr. De Palma oversaw the set - piece that gave the movies their foundational image: Mr. Cruise's operative, Ethan Hunt, hovering like a spider (or a puppet) above a luminous white floor while suspended by a very thin rope.

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.