Sentences with phrase «of luminous stars»

¬ † What drives people back to Winter's Bone is the heroic and likable qualities of its luminous star, Jennifer Lawrence.

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You aren't too much; like the stars are never too bright, like the moon is never too large or luminous, like the wonders of the world are never too much.

Join us on our quest to chart the luminous bodies and fading stars in the ever - changing universe of the college game

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory).

Of the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular clusteOf the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular clusteof elements as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular cluster.

Of the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements — such as sodium, magnesium, zirconium, barium — as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular clusteOf the stars, 14 had the same abundance of elements — such as sodium, magnesium, zirconium, barium — as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular clusteof elements — such as sodium, magnesium, zirconium, barium — as Omega Centauri, the galaxy's most luminous globular cluster.

By learning about the change that the first stars and galaxies imposed on the universe, Hewitt said, HERA will help scientists figure out if the larger picture — the story — that they've pieced together about the emergence of luminous objects in the cosmos is correct.

He persuaded Caltech to install an 18 - inch Schmidt telescope that became the first astronomical instrument on Mount Palomar, and soon national media were regularly keeping a running tab of how many «star suicides» his survey of the heavens had discovered and how bright they were: 400 to 600 million times as luminous as the sun.

The shock wave seems to need an extra kick to make it out of the star and produce the luminous explosion.

These so - called hyper - luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when galaxies first formed — and may represent one of the most - extreme examples of violent star formation ever observed.

Just like the GJ436b, these might have been hot Neptunes orbiting around more luminous stars which would have circulated in their atmosphere that ended up leaving the rocky centre of the planet bare.

Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close - up here: One is a yellow - white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.

Then as now, astronomers estimated the distances to galaxies by studying Cepheid variables, an unusual class of stars whose brightness rises and falls predictably: The longer the period of variation, the more luminous the star.

Subsequently bits and pieces swirl into the black hole and thus produce huge flares of radiation that can be as luminous as all the rest of the stars in the host galaxy for a period of a few months to a year.

This region of space houses one of the highest concentrations of massive, luminous stars in the entire Milky Way — a spectacular family of young, bright, white - blue stars.

Numerical simulations of collapsing clouds of primordial gas indicate that the first luminous objects to form in the universe were isolated massive stars.

One of the telescopes involved in the collaboration, based in Chile, was ideally located for Kilpatrick to be among the first to look at the patch of sky LIGO had identified and capture, just 17 hours after the gravitational wave signal, the luminous spot that emerged from the colliding neutron stars.

Olsen thinks the infalling gas hit 30 Doradus, causing it to grow large and luminous by fueling the formation of new stars.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

«How can a quasar so luminous, and a black hole so massive, form so early in the history of the universe, at an era soon after the earliest stars and galaxies have just emerged?»

In particular, the CDF - S source is likely associated with the complete destruction of a neutron star or white dwarf, and is roughly 100,000 times more luminous in X-rays.

The Milky Way is likewise escorted by at least a half dozen small galaxies trapped by the gravitational epoxy of dark matter, which is scattered all through and around our galaxy's luminous stars.

The center of mass will trace a straight line against the stellar background and thus the luminous star will trace a sinusoidal path.

Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and luminous stars known, is tearing itself apart.

The longer the pulsation period of one of these yellow supergiants, the more luminous the star; so measuring the period determines the star's true, or intrinsic, brightness.

More than just Orion's brightest star, Rigel is among the most luminous objects in the galaxy, shining with the light of 55,000 suns.

And they are sprayed with collections of different - sized black dots rather than the luminous, silvery stars that actually shine above our heads.

Such a shortfall is particularly prominent in luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), which have high star formation (and thus CCSN) rates and host bright and crowded nuclear regions, where large extinctions and reduced search detection efficiency likely lead to a significant fraction of CCSNe remaining undiscovered.

The pressure of starlight from the star, which is 23 times more luminous than the Sun, then expelled the dust far into space.

We have created the most complete compilation so far of published measurements of the motion of gas and stars in the Milky Way, and compared the measured rotation speed with that expected under the assumption that only luminous matter exists in the Galaxy.

A total of 6481 stars are plotted and every one of them is more than a hundred times more luminous than the Sun.

Star, any massive self - luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources.

Galaxies undergoing such a burst of star formation are called starburst galaxies and they can be the among the most luminous of galaxies.

Then, by unveiling the nature of CR7 piece by piece, we understood that not only had we found by far the most luminous distant galaxy, but also started to realize that it had every single characteristic expected of Population III stars.

The temperature of the shell rises; the star becomes more luminous; and it finally approaches the top of the giant domain on the Hertzsprung - Russell diagram.

It continues through the Cygnus X complex of star formation regions, which includes Cyg OB2, one of the most luminous OB associations known in the local group of galaxies.

If SDSS1133 isn't a black hole, then it must have been a very unusual type of star known as a Luminous Blue Variable (LBV).

Consequently, effects that require billions of years to be easily recognized in the Sun might occur within a few million years in highly luminous and massive stars.

«This particular source of gamma rays was found towards an unusual cluster of stars which harbours one of the Milky Way's most massive and energetic young stars, a luminous blue variable star called LBV1806 - 20,» says Associate Professor Gavin Rowell, from the University of Adelaide's High Energy Astrophysics Group and leader of Australia's participation in HESS.

In addition, hundreds of individual young, luminous stars can be seen throughout the galaxy.

While the Sun produces energy at the rate of about two ergs per gram per second, a more luminous main - sequence star can release energy at a rate some 1,000 times greater.

Within that enormous sphere, astronomers have detected at least 7.38 Solar - masses of visible matter bound up in 11 luminous stars and one weakly glowing white dwarf.

«The galaxy we have observed, EGS8p7, which is unusually luminous, may be powered by a population of unusually hot stars, and it may have special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who worked on the project, said, in the statement.

«The cluster of stars also harbours a rare, extremely magnetic, neutron star known as a magnetar, but we think the gamma ray emission could be linked to the luminous blue variable star.

This Hubble composite image shows visible starlight as well as light from the emission of glowing hydrogen, which is associated with the most luminous young stars in the spiral arms.

The Milky Way, made by the light of billions of distant stars, forms a luminous band slanting down and to the right.

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.

Alpha Centauri B is the companion star, or secondary, of the binary system, and is slightly smaller and less luminous than the Sun.

Because of its great distance from Earth, HE 0107 - 5240 is roughly about ten thousand times fainter than the faintest stars that can be seen with the unaided eye, despite being a highly evolved and relatively luminous giant.

Some are found in globular clusters, but most move in a huge cloud around the disk called the galactic halo, which has a luminous inner component defined by globular star clusters and other easily observable stars (with coronae of hot gas possibly expelled by supernovae and of high - velocity neutron stars) and an outer dark - matter component inferred from its gravitational impact on the Milky Way's spiral disk.