Sentences with phrase «nearby dwarf»
The phrase "nearby dwarf" refers to a small celestial object called a dwarf, like a star or a planet, that is relatively close to another object or location. Full definition
That means we can learn about star formation in such extreme environments by studying nearby dwarf galaxies.
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«The planets in the habitable zone around nearby dwarf stars, like Proxima Centauri or TRAPPIST - 1, are exposed to strong stellar winds that could strip their atmospheres,» Loeb said.
The new campaign will let us see, in real time, no less, just how this inspiring search of nearby dwarfs proceeds.
NASA's Fermi space telescope has searched for such gamma rays in nearby dwarf galaxies twice and so far found nothing.
But when Abazajian and his student Ryan Keeley analysed data from nearby dwarf galaxies released by the Fermi telescope this year, they found no such signal there.
A search for nearby dwarf galaxies that should show the same signal have proved fruitless, leaving physicists disappointed after five years of excitement.
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.
Most of these local, massive clusters are quite old, however, so the KIAA - led research team turned their attention to young and intermediate - aged clusters found in two nearby dwarf galaxies, collectively called the Magellanic Clouds.
So say Avishay Gal - Yam of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues, who followed the afterglow of the explosion in a nearby dwarf galaxy over 18 months (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08579).
Astronomers studying a nearby dwarf galaxy have detected large organic molecules, suggesting that the basic chemical building blocks of life can form in places much more primitive than our own galaxy.
An international team of astronomers used the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth - sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1.
A new computer re-enactment of billions of years of galactic evolution suggests that the Milky Way owes much of its current shape to interactions with a nearby dwarf galaxy.
Astronomers have discovered three exoplanets in orbit around a nearby dwarf star, making them good targets for atmospheric analysis
I Zwicky 18 is a nearby dwarf galaxy that started forming stars only 500 million to one billion years ago.
The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive place.
Hubble detects the galaxy's bulge and disk but only HDST resolves the galaxy's star forming regions and its nearby dwarf satellite.
Astronomers using K2, the second planet - finding mission of the Kepler space telescope, recently detected three such planets orbiting a nearby dwarf star.
Even when Fabious is away on a quest to kill this or that mythical beast in service of the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the brothers» father King Tallious (Charles Dance) never stop praising his elder son, while wondering how Thadeous could so royally screw up a peace treaty with a nearby dwarf tribe (shown in the opening scene, which, through its display of Thadeous» dumb luck in escaping hanging due to dwarf - sized engineering, is the movie's funniest).