Sentences with phrase «of nearby gas»

Using the Sirius Travel Link feature, the car shows a list of nearby gas stations complete with their current price per gallon.

They grew only slowly at first — adding just 1 percent to their bulk in the next 200 million years — because the hyperactive stars that spawned them had blasted away most of the nearby gas that they could have devoured.

Not exact matches

The idea is to park the vessel atop submarine gas fields off the coast of Australia, liquefy the product and ship it to nearby Asian markets.

Some of the cheapest gas prices in the country typically appear in the Rocky Mountain region due to cheaper crude prices and refinery costs — and most of the state's oil is sourced locally or in nearby states, according to the U.S. Energy Administration.

The site has access to nearby natural gas and reagent sources for processing as well as a skilled labour pool of engineers and refinery workers.

A dozen protesters from Orange County attended the hearing and later waited for Percoco outside a courthouse bathroom and followed him to a nearby subway, objecting to his alleged acceptance of payoffs to help grease the wheels for a gas - fired power plant in Wawayanda in Orange County.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

Combined, the results of all four statistical approaches yield a defensible, compelling argument that there is no significant correlation between dissolved methane concentrations in groundwater and proximity to nearby oil / gas wells.»

The PSC has joined a probe into how a construction crew broke a gas line and forced a temporary Thruway closure and evacuation of nearby neighborhoods.

One of the most contentious areas of debate over the expansion of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas concerns a spike in seismic activity in unlikely areas that have begun fracking nearby.

ALBANY - Officials with the state Department of Environmental Conservation will host three legislative public hearings this week regarding a proposed natural gas pipeline that will run through nearby Erie and Cattaraugus Counties.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

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.

It might have stripped off the outer layers of a nearby star, caused a pair of stars to interact and consumed the released gas, or swallowed some planets whole.

When a pair of chemical targets — n this case, carbon monoxide gas and chloride ions — approach, the rhodium atoms cut their ties to nearby sulfur atoms and latch onto the targets instead.

But inventories of the stars and gas in the nearby universe have revealed only about half the matter that is predicted by cosmological models.

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.

Gas at the centre of galaxy clusters should be cooling as it loses energy; this would allow nearby material to compress the gas and create ideal conditions for making staGas at the centre of galaxy clusters should be cooling as it loses energy; this would allow nearby material to compress the gas and create ideal conditions for making stagas and create ideal conditions for making stars.

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).

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head - on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.

The blue and white zones comprise very different signals, mostly emissions from relatively nearby clouds of gas and dust in our galaxy.

That's how NuSTAR recently identified two gas - enshrouded supermassive black holes, located at the centres of nearby galaxies.

This gas - filled organ is normally used to keep the animal buoyant, but a nearby muscle can make it resonate and so double as an organ of vocalisation.

Using elaborate computer simulations, a team of researchers from RIKEN in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) were able to explain the recently measured spatial distributions of radioactive titanium and nickel in Cassiopeia A, a roughly 340 year old gas remnant of a nearby supernova.

Small galaxies» visible gas may have been scoured away by million - degree coronas of nearby big galaxies

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 is hoped that Philae will also see jets of gas and dust emerging from nearby pits as the comet heats up as it travels towards the sun.

A new study links elevated levels of methane and other gases in groundwater to nearby hydraulic fracturing wells on the Marcellus shale, and suggests the problem lies in poorly designed well casings

Astronomers recently gauged the age of the Fermi bubbles less directly, by arguing that whatever produced them also irradiated a long strand of gas shed by two nearby galaxies.

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.

Photo illustration of NIST experiment using a pair of laser frequency combs (depicted as rainbow - colored cartoons) to detect the simultaneous signatures of several «greenhouse» gases along a 2 - kilometer path between a NIST laboratory roof and a nearby mesa.

«These findings are particularly relevant to the shale gas industry as extraction of shale gas has the undesired potential effect of induced seismic events activating a nearby fault.»

These strong stellar winds also carve out cavities in nearby clouds of gas and dust, and kickstart the formation of new stars.

To spot the black hole's event horizon, a team of astronomers — led by Michael Garcia and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — watched what happened as a black hole stole gas away from a nearby star.

It could be that NGC 1052 - DF2 was once a placid mass of gas and has been recently perturbed by another unseen galaxy nearby, sparking star formation.

Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

After a wave of hot gas and ash, called a pyroclastic flow, engulfed nearby Pompeii and killed those left in the city, more layers of ash from the eruption buried the buildings and bodies.

Black holes are monsters that supposedly consume everything that comes close to them, yet the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars nearby.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

Others, including Mark Tingay, a research fellow at Curtin University of Technology in Perth and the lead author of a study published in Geology [subscription required] in August, are fairly certain that the eruption was the result of an underground blowout in a natural gas well being dug nearby.

According to a summary of Barstow's talk released by the Royal Astronomical Society, the most probable explanation for the missing gas is that the area was swept clear of material by a nearby star that went supernova within the last few million years.

Astronomer Andrew Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues made the discovery while studying a stream of gas shed by two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which orbit the Milky Way.

To find out whether the jets could be the result of a magnetic field produced by charged ions swirling around in the gas, Eatough and colleagues looked at a nearby pulsar.

Nearby, large stars erupt in cataclysmic supernova explosions, sparking additional emissions from gas heated to millions of degrees.

«The UV radiation from a massive star will ionize and heat up disks of gas surrounding nearby low - mass stars,» Bally says.

Scientists can detect black holes by looking at the motion of stars and gas nearby as well as matter accreted from its surroundings.

The team figured out what a telescope would see when a star hit the hard surface of a supermassive object at the center of a nearby galaxy: The star's gas would envelope the object, shining for months, perhaps even years.

There, researchers plan to inject 100,000 metric tons of CO2 underground from a nearby gas well.