Sentences with phrase «nearby clouds of»

These strong stellar winds also carve out cavities in nearby clouds of gas and dust, and kickstart the formation of new stars.

The blue and white zones comprise very different signals, mostly emissions from relatively nearby clouds of gas and dust in our galaxy.

McGuire et al. used radio astronomy to detect rotational transitions of benzonitrile emitted from a well - known nearby cloud of interstellar gas (see the Perspective by Joblin and Cernicharo).

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The flat four - pronged device, about the size of a dime, captured nearby broadcast signals and beamed them to Aereo's cloud servers, allowing subscribers to stream content.

Cause really accretion and a nearby second generation star going supernova disturbing a dust cloud thus explaining our high abundance of higher elements seems like a very excellent explanation.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

He got time on Hubble to observe this strange object, now called Hanny's Voorwerp (which is Dutch for «thing»), and now we think we know what it is: a huge cloud of gas, as big as our own Milky Way, lit up by the nearby spiral!

She told Disney she'd spotted standalone galaxy - like objects right where the Parkes survey had found gas clouds identified as merely extended parts of nearby bright galaxies.

Based on various lines of indirect evidence, astronomers are fairly sure that the sun is surrounded by a huge cloud of dormant comets — trillions of them, probably — that move in lazy orbits extending halfway to the nearby stars.

Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a «cloud» of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan, children living nearby who likely breathed in the ash and fumes are showing early signs of risk for future heart disease.

Earth and the other planets of our solar system suffer occasional impacts when comets are disturbed from their orbits around the sun by the gravity of nearby stars and gas clouds.

Vanessa McBride at the University of Southampton in the UK and her colleagues looked at X-rays arriving from the space between two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic clouds.

Since it was first discovered in 1992, the curious shape of the Honeycomb Nebula, which lurks in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, has been a puzzle.

«Our primary concern is an ash cloud that could rise tens of thousands of feet above the crater,» Gardner says, threatening nearby aircraft.

In the case of a nearby super nova the effect can be more than 50 % of the growth rate, which will have an impact on the clouds and the Earth's temperature.

To find a light source for the cloud, astronomers turned to NASA's Swift satellite to look for X-ray evidence of nearby energy sources.

Further observations showed that the voorwerp was a glowing cloud of gas that stretched some 100,000 light - years from the core of a massive nearby galaxy called IC 2497.

If clouds of hydrogen also cluster around quasars — which convert all nearby neutral hydrogen to invisible ionized gas — then quasars must have ionized more hydrogen than astronomers had assumed, Savaglio says.

The cloud may even be much closer than most astronomers think and be part of the debris of a nearby supernova.

Using GPS tracking and a connection to the cloud, the app can flash an alert to the patient when one of the group members is nearby.

At nearby Ollantaytambo, board our first - class Vistadome train to travel from the Sacred Valley up into the cloud forest, enjoying unmatched views of the peaks through the glass - ceilinged cars.

Unlike the often extensive and stratiform clouds of winter, the warm months can find clear skies in one community while thunderstorms erupt nearby.

When our solar system was nothing but a cloud of gas and dust, what was likely a shock wave from a nearby supernova bounced up against it and caused it to collapse.

This image of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 gives a detailed view of its star - forming cloud, including intense regions of star formation near the ends of the galaxy's central bar.

Reddish nebulae reveal regions of active star formation, where young, hot stars heat up nearby gas clouds.

Some of those rogue atoms float into a nearby gas cloud and stick to fine grains of dust there.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy, has significantly more huge stars than we would expect to see, which could mean there are more supernovae and black holes all over.

The Utah cloud - seeding effort comes courtesy of North American Weather Consultants, America's oldest weather modification company, located in an upscale office park in nearby Sandy, Utah.

Extremely turbulent environments can disrupt the normal procession of material onto a protostar, while intense radiation — from massive nearby stars and supermassive black holes — can blast away the parent cloud, thwarting the formation of all but the most massive of stars.

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen dubbed «The Behemoth» bleeding off a planet orbiting a nearby star.

A pair of gas clouds in a nearby galaxy appears to be the tortured remains of two ancient gamma - ray bursts.

The VISION survey allows the earliest evolutionary phases of young stars within nearby molecular clouds to be systematically studied.

It sounds like a Comet exploded in nearby space, or on entry, and Earth then passed through a cloud of debris.

Detailed radio maps of nearby molecular clouds reveal that they are clumpy, with regions containing a wide range of densities — from a few tens of molecules (mostly hydrogen) per cubic centimetre to more than one million.

According to the space agency, astronomers exploring a disk of gas and dust around a nearby star uncovered a compact cloud of poisonous gas formed by constant collisions among the comet - like bodies.

Parts of the Orion Molecular cloud are illuminated by nearby stars and therefore glow an eerie green color.

It is part of an enormous cloud of molecular gas and dust obscuring background light from nearby emission nebula IC 434, producing the silhouette.

High - velocity clouds are vagabond clumps of intergalactic gas, possibly left over from the formation of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies.

With clouds shrouding much of the sky, professor Steve Fossey decided to point the University's 14 - inch telescope at nearby galaxy Messier 82 (M82) and saw a very bright object that wasn't supposed to be there.

These massive, hot stars burned bright for a short time, emitting so much energy in the form of starlight that they pushed nearby gas clouds far away.

From ground - based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun - like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light.

In addition to the radiation pressure, the winds that so massive a star generates disperse its natal cloud, further limiting its growth as well as interfering with the formation of nearby stars.»

Astronomers reported today that recent ultraviolet observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest that what were thought to be randomly distributed, nearby primordial clouds of hydrogen may actually be associated with galaxies or clusters of galaxies.

The warm, moist air of an early September morning hangs quietly over the Rhode Island Convention Center here, and the sun is just beginning to peek through the clouds above the nearby state Capitol.

We watched as a cloud of dust and dirt rose to the sky from a poverty - stricken neighborhood nearby, and we could hear the yelling of the injured.

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, and leading truck maker Volvo Trucks (independent companies despite the names) are collaborating to share real - time data to expand coverage of the companies» connected safety technology — cloud - based systems that allow vehicle to communicate with each other and alert drivers of nearby hazards.

From all our public areas and rooms, our guests will enjoy expansive views of the pristine arid savanna of the adjacent Galapagos National Park by looking north, to extinct volcanic cones shrouded in mist, mountains covered with lush tropical cloud forests, and green pasture farms by looking to the south - west; along with a 270 degree view of the infinite Pacific Ocean with nearby islands as a backdrop.

There may also be opportunity to venture into the nearby cloud forests or explore the traditional beach communities of the Caribbean coast at the weekend.

Just about an hour south of San José, Savegre Hotel, Natural Reserve & Spa lies in a private reserve of 400 hectares, an the ideal base for exploring Costa Rica's amazing tropical cloud forest and many of its nearby attractions.