Sentences with phrase «nebula ngc»

Science also holds that the solar nebula was homogenous, that is, the same kind of dust everywhere.

The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952) is a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus.

This is a more precise figure than previous estimates, which placed the solar nebula's lifetime at somewhere between 1 and 10 million years.

The most powerful known particle accelerator in the universe is not CERN's multibillion - dollar machine but the interstellar dust cloud called the Crab nebula — although how it whips electrons to record - breaking speeds is still a mystery.

The multitude of fainter water - rich, free - floating brown dwarfs and planets within the Orion nebula are all new discoveries.

«What's more, the angrites» paleomagnetism constrains the lifetime of our own solar nebula, while astronomical observations obviously measure other faraway solar systems,» Wang adds.

As a result, the nebula hovers at just 2 degrees F above absolute zero — the coldest known spot in the universe.

Astronomers recently discovered a more frigid place: the Boomerang nebula in the constellation Centaurus, located about 5,000 light - years away.

Weiss says that if the solar nebula was around in the first 4 million years of solar system formation, this would give support to the core accretion scenario, which is generally favored among scientists.

Its brightness is thought to arise from a pulsar at its centre that sends electrons slamming into the nebula.

One, last September, lasted for four days and brightened the nebula sixfold (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1199705 and DOI: 10.1126 / science.1200083).

Most of this interstellar material contracted at the disk's center to form the sun, and part of the solar nebula's remaining gas and dust condensed to form the planets and the rest of our solar system.

This central nebula is Sharpless 29's most striking feature.

• This week's juiciest career - related story is Yudhijit Bhattacharje's engaging look back at the discovery, by Marco Tavani's AGILE research team, of anomalous gamma radiation from the Crab nebula.

City - size planetesimals — rocky microworlds that clumped together in the solar nebula — smashed into our planet's surface at incredible velocities and seeped down to Earth's iron core, depositing yet more iron.

[1] The Orion Nebula has been studied by many of ESO's telescopes, including images in visible light from the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope (eso1103) and infrared images from VISTA (eso1701) and the HAWK - I instrument on the Very Large Telescope (eso1625).

Located 1,350 light - years away, the Orion Nebula is a relatively nearby laboratory for studying the star formation process across a wide range, from opulent giant stars to diminutive red dwarf stars and elusive, faint brown dwarfs.

By studying the magnetic orientations in pristine samples of ancient meteorites that formed 4.563 billion years ago, the team determined that the solar nebula lasted around 3 to 4 million years.

Meanwhile, ESO's Very Large Telescope has taken a deep look into the Lobster Nebula, capturing the many hot, bright stars that influence the object's colour and shape (eso1226).

It contains many astronomical wonders, including the highly active star formation site of NGC 6559, the nebula at the centre of the image.

«So even if the solar nebula hadn't disappeared by 4 million years, it was basically on its way out.»

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula.

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a glowing emission nebula with a greenish hue and is situated below Orion's Belt.

The three toepads visible to modern telescopes, as well as the claw - like regions in the nearby Lobster Nebula, are actually regions of gas — predominantly hydrogen — energised by the light of brilliant newborn stars.

«It's predicted that once the magnetic field drops by a factor of 10 - 100 in the inner solar system, which we've now shown, the solar nebula goes away really quickly, within 100,000 years,» Weiss says.

Invisible dark matter may have started out as hot white dwarfs like this one in the middle of planetary nebula NGC 2440.

At the time, the limited telescopic power available to Herschel, who was observing visually, only allowed him to document the brightest «toepad» of the Cat's Paw Nebula.

The finding presents a complication for astronomers who rely on the Crab nebula's steady brightness as a «standard candle» to calibrate their instruments.

LATE one summer night in 1845, the 3rd Earl of Rosse climbed up to an 18 - metre - high platform to focus a telescope on a nebula known as M51.

When seen in longer wavelength infrared light, for example, one portion of NGC 6357 resembles a dove, and the other a skull; it has therefore acquired the additional name of the War and Peace Nebula.

Now scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape.

In fact, the nebula contains a prominent cavity that was carved out by an energetic binary star system.

The wide - field optical camera on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST)-- has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail, producing this beautiful new image.

The wide - field optical camera on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST)-- has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young stars in great detail.

Mid-February: Sirius, the brightest star, and the Orion nebula, the brightest interstellar gas cloud, rise to their highest, most prominent point in the south between 8 and 9 p.m.. Also, Jupiter now rises before 10 p.m., shining brilliantly in the eastern sky.

A team led by ESO astronomer Giacomo Beccari has used these data of unparallelled quality to precisely measure the brightness and colours of all the stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster.

Now that the scientists have a better idea of how long the solar nebula persisted, they can also narrow in on how giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn formed.

CRAB NEBULA This tortured cloud is the remnant of a supernova explosion that was brilliantly visible in 1054.

Also known as Sh 2 - 29, Sharpless 29 is located about 5500 light - years away in the constellation of Sagittarius (constellation)-RRB-(The Archer), next door to the larger Lagoon Nebula.

The portion of the Orion Nebula measures roughly four by three light - years.

A ring, sharp jets, and other bright x-ray features surround the central neutron star in the Crab Nebula in this new image (left) from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astrophysicists have taken a new and detailed look at the blazing heart of the Crab Nebula, the remnants of a star that exploded into view nearly 1000 years ago.

The vast nebula where these giants were born, known as RCW 106, is captured here in fine detail by ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Mixed in with the gas are dark clumps of dust that absorb rather than emit light, creating weaving lanes and dark shapes across the nebula.

It is actively forming new stars in regions that are so bright that some can even be seen from Earth with the naked eye, such as the Tarantula Nebula.

For astrophotography buffs, the most important upgrade is Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), whose predecessor captured many of Hubble's iconic images, including the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula.

The swirls, especially a bright inner ring, may trace the long - sought «power conduits» that pump energy from the pulsar to the glowing nebula, according to researchers who spoke today at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

«The nebula itself isn't growing on this time scale,» says Bond, lead author of a report on the light echoes in the 27 March issue of Nature.

The Hubble Space Telescope demonstrated its newly enhanced capabilities with this stunning image of the Butterfly nebula.

But Michilli points out that in order to drive such strong magnetic fields, the supernova remnant would have to be a million times brighter than even the brightest remnant in the Milky Way, the Crab nebula (SN: 1/1/11, p. 11).