Sentences with phrase «of old stars»

That difference matters, because the age of the oldest stars sets a lower limit on the age of the universe.

A collection of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity.

Large numbers of galaxies are elliptical in shape, red and mostly made up of old stars.

They determined it was coming from an elliptical galaxy, which typically consists of older stars.

One possible reason for the drop off in magnetic energy is that the reduction in magnetic activity mirrors a greater decrease in the rate of spin of older stars compared to their younger counterparts.

The rotating stream of stars in the galaxy is entirely made up of old stars and from their properties, researchers can draw conclusions about this dramatic cosmic event.

Oh, wait a sec, I forgot something... How about a ton of old Star Wars games?

MAUNA KEA, HI — An international team of scientists, led by astronomers at Queen Mary University of London, report of two new planets orbiting Kapteyn's star, one of the oldest stars found near... Read more»

A typical spiral galaxy has a spherical central bulge of older stars surrounded by a flattened galactic disk that contains a spiral pattern of young, hot stars, as well as interstellar matter.

The center of the Milky Way contains an abundance of older stars as compared to the relatively younger ones but a new study shows that the number of the younger ones may be even lesser than was previously anticipated.

At the lower - left is the band of white dwarfs - these are the dead cores of old stars which have no internal energy source and over billions of years slowly cool down towards the bottom - right of the diagram.

For many years, astronomers had a simple view of our Milky Way's central hub, or bulge, as a quiescent place composed of old stars, the earliest homesteaders of our galaxy.

During this collision, the stream of old stars didn't budge.

The object, referred to as SDSS J0104 +1535, is located in the outermost regions of our Galaxy, which is comprised of the oldest stars.

Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (the universe itself is 14.8 billion years old), that clump together due to gravity, and are found circling cores of galaxies.

They lost a couple of older stars, and then refreshed and reloaded the roster.

The Sun and Earth reside in the disk and the bulge is both full of older stars and home to a supermassive black hole that probably grew along with the galaxy.

Those studies of old stars or distant galaxies have shown that «certain elements were less abundant in the past, but we haven't really been able to look at that carefully,» Hewitt said.

But there's only about a third as much lithium in the atmospheres of old stars as there should be.

Astronomers have deduced that astonishing conclusion from the following facts: The Milky Way's familiar pinwheel of relatively young stars sits amid an extended spherical halo of older stars and gas.

Hubble's WFC3 camera snapped images in the near - infrared, revealing the spatial distribution of older stars within the actively star - forming galaxies.

He previously found a white dwarf — the remnant of an old star — with a carbon - crystal core that was under higher pressure than the new planet, producing a crystalline structure distinct from diamond.

This suggests that US 708 was once paired up in a close binary with a white dwarf, the burnt - out remains of an old star.

«But instead of finding just gas and newly formed stars at the edges of their disks, we also found a significant population of older stars along with the thin smattering of young stars and interstellar gas.»

Astronomers already had seen other large patterns of stars in our galaxy's vast outer halo, a sparsely populated sphere of old stars.

Professor Meurer and his team also found evidence of older stars existing out to the edge of galaxies.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with pinwheel - like arms made up of gas and dust that contain a bright center of older stars.

Several methods are used, such as exploiting the known luminosities of old stars that are just beginning to burn Helium in their cores, and the relationship between the rotation speed of galaxies and the number of stars they possess.

R Coronae Borealis star, any of a small group of old stars of the class called peculiar variables that maintain nearly uniform brightness for indeterminate lengths of time and then fall abruptly and dramatically in brightness over the course of a few weeks or less, returning slowly and irregularly to their previous level over several months.

The Dumbbell, a nearby planetary nebula residing more than 1,200 light - years away, is the result of an old star that has shed its outer layers in a unique display of color.

Furthermore, comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of most of the Kapteyn group's stellar population has revealed that it shares the same elemental abundance with many of the millions of old stars that comprise the 12 - billion - year - old Omega Centauri, the largest globular cluster in the galaxy, located 15,800 light - years away in the constellation of Centaurus.

Elliptical galaxies are comprised mostly of old stars and contain very little dust and «cool» gas that can form stars.

The white haze in this artist's drawing shows where a narrow bridge of old stars connects the Magellanic Clouds.

According to scientists, WASP - 18b is the first known example of an orbiting planet that has apparently made its star, which is about the mass of the sun, to display characteristics of an older star.

The ability to study these SiO shells in such detail provides researchers a «powerful new tool» for determining how the magnetic fields of old stars like TX Cam evolve over time and to learn what role their magnetic fields play in the mechanisms of mass loss.

She used a telescope in Chile to identify one of the oldest stars ever found and calculated its age: more than 13.2 billion years, almost as old as the universe itself, whose age is believed to be 13.7 billion years.

With adaptive optics, Ghez and her colleagues have revealed many surprises about the environments surrounding supermassive black holes, discovering, for example, young stars where none were expected and seeing a lack of old stars where many were anticipated.

With the help of Hubble, astronomers now have evidence that may eventually solve the mystery of how blue straggler stars — hot, bright, young stars residing in neighborhoods of old stars — were formed.

The thick disk is generally formed of old stars that may lie several thousand light - years (ly) above or below the galactic plane, unlike thin disk stars such as Sol which typically lie within a thousand ly.

The main image (top) highlights the contrast between the galaxy's choppy waves of dust (red) and smooth sea of older stars (blue).

Generated by the deaths of older stars, the greater availability of elements higher than hydrogen and helium in this galactic region favor the formation of rocky inner planets as large as Earth, or bigger (Gonzalez et al, 2001).

I bought this dress off Etsy from a lady who makes them out of old Star Wars t - shirts....

Cruise was paired with Gene Hackman, making the perfect dynamic of the old star, turning things over to the new.

Some parts of Grim are simply lost, buried beneath the sands of time or probably, like, some cobweb - strewn boxes of old Star Wars VCR tapes.

And at least one Facebook message (from someone who seems disgruntled about Disney consigning much of the old Star Wars expanded universe to non-canonical status) hints that just such a campaign has gone on for the Rotten Tomatoes score in particular.

All of which makes The Box an extended version of those old Star Trek episodes in which superior alien entities try to figure out whether humanity is worth saving or not - can people be altruistic and self - sacrificing, or are we just a bunch of jerks who are trying to screw one another over as Ripley maintained in Aliens?

But it doesn't take any insider knowledge to come to the conclusion that some of these job openings are related to each other in some way, and I think the idea of a Star Wars game that borrows the best from Battlefield Bad Company, Republic Command, and Battlefront would be pretty awesome and could be a logical step forward while giving the fans of those older Star Wars games a little bit of the sequels they've always wanted.