Sentences with phrase «newborn stars»

However, the new observations show that light from newborn stars alone can be enough to do the job.

In this result from 2011, astronomers found that gas blown out of galaxies from energetic newborn stars often will fall back into the galaxy, providing additional fuel for new star formation.

At these wavelengths, astronomers can peer at the disks of gas and dust around newborn stars, see into star - forming clouds, and observe early galaxies that are bright in submillimetre wavelengths but obscured by dust in optical light.

The theory of newborn stars arising in clusters as they «adopt» interstellar gases actually dates back to a 1952 paper.

«Brown dwarfs found sprinkled among newborn stars in Orion Nebula.»

The conventional wisdom is that planets coagulate inside a vast disk of gas and dust encircling newborn stars.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

Infrared observations in this image show warm dust clouds heated by newborn stars, with the brightest clouds lying in the overlapping region between the galaxies.

Molecular clouds hold most of the water in the universe, and serve as nurseries for newborn stars and their planets.

The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed us to watch the explosive death of massive stars, study the remnants they left behind, and witness newborn stars arising from clouds of gas and dust.

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.

In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars.

Competing with the merging neutron stars theory is a model in which the short GRBs are from a galaxy with newborn stars.

Its spiral arms squeeze interstellar gas and dust, causing gas clouds to grow dense, collapse and create new stars; the brightest newborn stars illuminate the arms so gloriously that spiral galaxies resemble glowing cosmic hurricanes.

Both the Hubble and Keck images indicate that the galaxy is exceptionally blue, indicating the presence of a large number of blue newborn stars.

In yesterday's Science Express, a team led by astrophysicist Mark Krumholz of the University of California, Santa Cruz, describes three - dimensional supercomputer simulations that show newborn stars don't push all of their food off the table, as originally thought.

In our galaxy, newborn stars span an enormous range of masses: A few rare superstars arise with more than 100 times the mass of our sun, but the vast majority is composed of dim red dwarfs with just a fraction of the sun's mass.

Bright spots indicate newborn stars, whereas dark spots indicate old stars that have blown away their stellar dust.

Glowing pink clouds of hydrogen gas harbor countless newborn stars, and the bluish - white hue of young star clusters litter the landscape.

But this process can be halted by other newborn stars, as their winds and radiation blow the gas outward.

In our galactic neighbourhood, newborn stars seem to follow the same distribution of masses.

A single emission nebula can be filled with numerous newborn stars.

Among the incredible Hubble cloud images, none has been received with greater public acclaim than the detailed 1995 snapshot of newborn stars emerging from giant pillars of gas and dust inside the Eagle Nebula.

This dust is heated by ultra-violet radiation from massive newborn stars and the warm dust then re-radiates at radio wavelengths.

In the inner region of the dust disk where Earth formed, the temperature should not have been hot enough to vaporize carbon dust, according to recent observations of circumstellar debris disks around newborn stars.

While they are very different, they were both sculpted by powerful stellar winds from extremely hot newborn stars that also radiate into the gas, causing it to glow brightly.

Emission nebulae like IC 2944 are composed mostly of hydrogen gas that glows in a distinctive shade of red, due to the intense radiation from the many brilliant newborn stars.

But before that — long before — they may have been grown in the thin, icy rind of irradiated dust grains, drifting in space, bathed in the light of newborn stars.

Twice a year, Reid and his colleagues use the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)-- a string of 10 sensitive radio telescopes stretching 8600 kilometers from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands and New England — to help make measurements from Earth to massive gas clouds surrounding about 50 newborn stars in the galaxy.

Ask an astronomer how planets form, and she'll say parts of a giant wheel of gas and dust around a newborn star, called a protoplanetary disk, somehow collapse into blobs.

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This would induce rapid starbirth as gas clouds were heated and compressed, precipitating millions of newborn stars.

Blue light from a newborn star lights up the reflection nebula IC 2631.

To test the possibility, Krumholz and a former student, Jonathan Craig, conducted computer simulations that approximated how the newborn stars would move and interact, to see just how violent the gravitational jostling would be in crowded, urban clusters.

The stellar nursery, called CTB 102, is home to perhaps thousands of newborn stars.

«Rotating ring of complex organic molecules discovered around newborn star: Chemical diversity in planet forming regions unveiled.»

Regarding Cole's questions: The planets do not migrate by gas drag but rather by their gravitational interaction with the planet - forming disk of gas and dust that surrounds a newborn star.

A blaze of newborn stars and the galaxy's contorted shape both suggest that it was born when two smaller clumps of stars collided less than 100 million years ago.

It takes millions of years for a cloud of gas and dust to create a newborn star.

Planets, on the light side of the divide, may form from leftover gas and dust in discs swirling around newborn stars, while stars and brown dwarfs form from the collapse of clumps of gas.

This gas gives rise to newborn stars — it gradually collapses under the force of its own gravity until it is sufficiently compressed to form a protostar — the precursor to a star.

Theorists who study planet formation could see no way for a planet that big to grow in such tight confines around a newborn star.

Every night The Orion nebula, a vast cloud of gas and newborn stars, is prominent in the south a couple of hours after sunset.

The similarity between the structures of newborn stars and the eruptions of quasars offers astronomers a golden opportunity to study the mechanisms of these more distant phenomena.

Combining Hubble data with observations from a suite of ground - based and space telescopes, two independent teams found that that the black hole, jets, and newborn stars are all parts of a self - regulating cycle.

Jets of gas ejected by a newborn star, racing at more than 400.000 miles per hour, stir up an interstellar shock wave.

Four and a half billion years ago, the place we now call the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust enshrouding a newborn star.

During millions of years of intimate infancy, the newborn stars could have exchanged vast numbers of comets from the fringes of their disks, each of them winding up with an ensemble of hand - me - downs from their stellar siblings.