Sentences with phrase «near a star called»

«And of course that god resides on a planet near a star called kolob.»

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By 2008 he'd invested $ 1 million in a real estate company near his hometown and hired Asian pop stars to promote a spa there called Bali.

In addition to our solar system's eight near - and - dear planets, there are more than 800 so - called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun.

One private effort, called Breakthrough Starshot, hopes to send such craft on a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri, the star system nearest Earth, within a generation.

If launched tomorrow toward the nearest port of call — Proxima b, a potentially habitable Earth - mass planet recently discovered in the triple star system of Alpha Centauri about four light - years away — that rocket would take 80,000 years to arrive.

One such star with a prominent dust disk, called Epsilon Eridani, is one of the 10 nearest stars investigated by the HOSTS Survey.

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.

Once a pitcher starts «aiming his pitches,» as the commentators call it, their voices heavy with foreboding, it usually isn't very long before he's back riding a tractor near the house he was born in, cursing his mental apparatus and simultaneously using it to figure out how much he can get for the sweat - stained athletic supporter he pilfered from an all - star teammate.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.

He and graduate student Jeffrey Bary looked for molecular hydrogen near young active stars called T Tauri stars.

He points out that it would take light some five years to travel even to the nearest star and back, adding that the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way (Andromeda — one of the «spiral nebulae», as he calls them) is more than several hundred thousand times as far away as the nearest stars.

The discovery sprang from an observation by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which spotted the infrared glow of a band of dust near a bright star called Eta Corvi.

The detailed properties of stars in these systems are studied to reconstruct the stellar contents of galaxies in the early stage, which is called «Galactic Archeology» or «near - field cosmology.»

This heavy element upwells from a star's core (where it is produced) to the surface (near where it is observed) in a phase called the third dredge - up, when material in deep helium - burning layers is brought to the surface through convection.

Working with fellow Carnegie astronomer George Preston, Shectman conducted an objective - prism survey for the oldest and most «metal - poor» stars in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy, and helped to provide the foundation for the study of what is now called near - field cosmology.

Experiments at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source reveal how a hydrocarbon called pyrene could form near stars.

The search for exoplanets is about to receive a huge boost, thanks to a new NASA mission called TESS — the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — that is set to embark on a quest to discover thousands of new worlds orbiting the brightest and nearest stars to the Sun.

The Hubble telescope's infrared camera, called the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, captured a fleeting phase in the death march of this star.

They are illuminated and heated by a torrent of energetic ultraviolet light from its four hottest and most massive stars, called the Trapezium, which lie near the center of the image.

The team observed a radio source called Source I in Orion KL, the nearest massive star - forming region.

This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906 +40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles.

Indeed a small group of five stars called Theta 1 Ori B was is likely a bound «mini-cluster» of stars, one that may eject the lowest mass star of the five in the near future.

Using a device called a coronagraph that blocks out a star's light so dimmer objects near it can be seen, the Hubble revealed that Fomalhaut was indeed off - center within its ring.

These regions, called cosmic masers, are found in areas where new stars are forming and near the centers of galaxies.

Divisive as the general audience reception may be, the latest addition to the Star Wars saga, The Last Jedi, has been met with near - universal praise by critics, with some going as far as to call it the best Star Wars film to date.

Civil War introduces Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spider - Man, both slated to be the stars of their own movies in the near future, to the extent that Cap almost becomes a supporting player in his own movie: If it had been called Avengers 3, no one would have blinked an eye.

With apologies to Steven Spielberg's classically tailored Bridge of Spies, the sprawling Straight Outta Compton, the moody creepshow It Follows, a pair of formally risky survival movies (The Martian and The Revenant), the bodacious blockbusters Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron, a movie you've never heard of called Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and other near - gems we left behind, our picks for the year's 21 very best movies are listed below, in descending order.

She's a woman who's starred in three Star Wars films and penned an academic study called «Frontal lobe activation during object permeance: data from near - infrared spectroscopy.»

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In the video version of this week's show, Brent, Ben, Bender, and Frankie get together to discuss whether or not Star Wars Battlefront II is «pay - to - win,» EA's big purchase of Respawn, the latest Nintendo Direct focused on Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the possibility of near - future remakes in The Legend of Zelda series, all of the news to come out of this past week's third - party publisher earnings calls, the Ninja Turtles in Injustice 2, the future of Telltale Games, this week's new releases, and lots more!

Writer / director / star Lena Dunham is being called one of the most exciting new voices in American independent cinema and critics are hailing her film as «irresistibly funny», «unnervingly honest», and «near perfection».

The order calls for new buildings and renovations to meet accepted «green building» standards, for leasing offices near public transit, for purchasing fuel - efficient and low - emission vehicles for state fleets and to purchase or lease Energy Star - rated equipment, among other things.

The required Intimation can be made either by calling at the specified toll free number or by contacting the nearest branch office of Star Health.

«Earth near tipping point, climatologist warns», a Toronto Star article, says James Hansen is back to warn that the Earth is nearing a tipping point, to call for a national carbon tax and to say that CEO's of energy companies may be guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.