Sentences with phrase «of nebular»

Nguyen sets a panorama of nebular expanse, slippery time, and infinite spectral light that could be perceived only in the immeasurable depths of a dream void or through interstellar outer space.

The percentages denote the amount of nebular light passing through the disk.

Promising mechanisms invoke tapping the rotational energy stored in either the newly formed star or the inner parts of its nebular disk.

Not exact matches

Based on measurements of Jupiter and the solar wind, which are thought to preserve the hydrogen isotopic ratio of the protosolar nebula, scientists think nebular water had an extremely light hydrogen isotopic signature — much closer to what the Baffin Island lavas suggest about the deep mantle's water.

Recent Subaru and Keck spectra reveal double - peaked profiles in the nebular lines of neutral oxygen and magnesium.

By looking at tungsten and molybdenum isotopes on iron meteorites, the team, made up of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Institut für Planetologie at the University of Münsterin Germany, found that meteorites are made up from two genetically distinct nebular reservoirs that coexisted but remained separated between 1 million and 3 - 4 million years after the solar system formed.

The infall shock, at the surfaces of the protostar and the swirling nebular disk surrounding it, arrests the inflow, creating an intense radiation field that tries to work its way out of the infalling envelope of gas and dust.

Comets are thought to be composed of the same nebular material present when the Sun and planets first formed more than 4.6 billion years ago.

These star - formation rate estimators include the ultraviolet light that is emitted from young stars, the infrared light that shows how much of the ultraviolet light was absorbed by dust, and the nebular emission lines that are caused by young stars making the clouds of gas around them glow and radiate.

The right - hand image is the same, but with contours denoting levels of increasing attenuation of the background nebular light toward the central star.

This study makes the first direct comparison between the optical emission line and the ultraviolet and infrared tracers of star formation and indicates that, despite the underlying uncertainties, astronomers can trust the nebular emission lines as robust indicators of the star - formation rate and the amount of light that is obscured by dust in distant galaxies.

«The most primitive meteorites, the carbonaceous chondrites, are primarily mixtures of many distinct materials that reflect a variety of solar nebular environments as well as planetary processing.»

Rather than leaving areas unprimed, Noland covered every square inch of his late canvases in sparkling, nebular color.

Since teaming up in 2009, the Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho have created a number of multimedia projects for high - profile venues such as Documenta and the Venice Biennale, dealing with utopia and dystopia in a nebular and speculative mode.