Sentences with phrase «nearby companion»

Fires — and recent floods — are often our frightening nearby companions.

Theories predict that most stars arise in groups, so astronomers expected the apparently juvenile Beta Pic to have nearby companions hatched from the same gaseous nursery.

One possibility is that interactions with a nearby companion in a binary star caused SDSS J124043.01 +671034.68 to bare its oxygen envelope.

Millisecond pulsars probably arise when a neutron star pulls gas from a nearby companion star.

Its outer hydrogen envelope becomes more loosely bound and vulnerable to gravitational stripping, or a type of stellar cannibalism, by the nearby companion star.

This star's capricious behavior appears to be fueled by a nearby companion star and may give new insights into the birth of millisecond pulsars.

The answer to this puzzle was found in the complex interplay between the neutron star and its nearby companion.

But our sun is an oddball among its nearby companions, containing a higher proportion of heavy elements, such as iron.

A disk of gas formed around the pulsar, originating either from a nearby companion star, or from the so - called supernova fallback material — part of the star's expelled debris that did not develop enough speed to escape into space.

Using the nearby Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara have observed something similar: an exploding star slamming into a nearby companion star.

These streaks arch down towards NGC 2936's nearby companion, the elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, visible here as a bright white oval.

In work published in The Astrophysical Journal, the Monash and Warwick scientists significantly improved the precision with which they could measure the orbit of Scorpius X-1, a double star system containing a neutron star that feeds off a nearby companion star.

Despite the challenges that life may have in developing on a planet, it appears that the presence of a nearby companion in the struggle may help.

They can also lead to a bizarre death dance as the voracious corpse of a dead star begins consuming a nearby companion.

A nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic stars.

Now seen in higher resolution, a volcano - like bright spot has a nearby companion.