Sentences with phrase «nearby gas clouds»
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.
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Reddish nebulae reveal regions of active star formation, where young, hot stars heat up nearby gas clouds.
Radiation from young stars is known to cause nearby gas clouds to glow in a particular way.
Some of those rogue atoms float into a nearby gas cloud and stick to fine grains of dust there.
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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.
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.
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).
The blue and white zones comprise very different signals, mostly emissions from relatively nearby clouds of gas and dust in our galaxy.
This image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla, shows the cluster and the gas clouds surrounding it, which glow in orange and red hues due to the radiation coming from nearby hot stars.
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.
«If a camera at a gas station picks up suspicious activity, the footage will be sent to the cloud, people at the gas station will be alerted, and nearby cameras will be told to look out for the criminals too,» says vproject coordinator Juan Arraiza at Vicomtech, a research foundation in San Sebastian, Spain.
These strong stellar winds also carve out cavities in nearby clouds of gas and dust, and kickstart the formation of new stars.
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.
«If a camera at a gas station picks up suspicious activity, the video footage will be sent to the cloud, people at the gas station will be alerted, and nearby cameras will be told to look out for the criminals too,» says project coordinator Juan Arraiza at Vicomtech, a research foundation in San Sebastian, Spain.
A pair of gas clouds in a nearby galaxy appears to be the tortured remains of two ancient gamma - ray bursts.
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.
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.
Astronomers looked at it and realized she had spotted something they had never seen before: a gas cloud as big as our solar system, illuminated by energy from a nearby galaxy's black hole [source: Plait].