Sentences with phrase «of ordinary stars»

[See Bruce Balick and Adam Frank, «The Extraordinary Deaths of Ordinary Stars,» Scientific American, Vol.

The cloud of unanswered questions surrounding planetaries should not obscure the real insight astronomers have recently gained into the extraordinary death of ordinary stars.

The glow seemed consistent with the size and shape of the matter needed to make ngc 5907 spin the way it does, so astronomers hoped that this might be the first sign that the dark halos were made of ordinary stars and planets — albeit faint ones — rather than exotic, yet - to - be discovered particles.

(Part of an ordinary star or white dwarf also exists as this energy, but a much smaller fraction.)

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Yes indeed, God created the entire universe, yet one of his chief concerns seems to be whether a bunch of violent apes on a speck of dust orbiting an ordinary middle - aged star in an unremarkable galaxy are touching themselves.

Are we then to conclude that God's only Son became uniquely incarnate once and for all on the third planet of a rather ordinary outlying star of a thoroughly undistinguished galaxy?

The average rating in the «Customer Reviews» section is 3.5 stars out of 5, a score that would cast it as a middling effort in ordinary circumstances.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

This soup is different than other lentil soups I've had — the fennel and star anise make it fragrant and a little out of the ordinary.

On the other side, how the hell does an intelligent man pay 50 million for Sterling, not only is he ordinary without the likes of Saurez, Surridge, and Gerrard he looks like he came from Star Wars (like so many others).

The Daily Star claim that the England international was also hit with a # 4,500 fine for the incident in which the player described as «a bit out of the ordinary.»

And the mats are a favorite of celebrity moms such as Kourtney Kardashian, Kelly Rutherford and Laila Ali so your baby can get the star treatment at a price us ordinary families can afford...

The «next chapter» of former Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella's life is unfolding at a financial firm in Midtown Manhattan that offers hedge fund - style investments to ordinary Joes, run by a high - flying, globe - trotting college dropout and former Austrian cop who hobnobs with celebs like former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and «Desperate Housewives» star Teri Hatcher.

Now teens can wish upon lots of stars when they transform an ordinary room into their own private star - filled universe.

Ordinary black holes form when individual stars collapse, and were thought to top out at about 15 times the mass of the sun.

In their simulations, Gao and Theuns found that within clumps of cold dark matter, single massive stars formed, but warm dark matter formed filaments about a quarter the width of the Milky Way, attracting enough ordinary matter to create some 10 million stars — and some of these very first stars could still be around.

But even ordinary G - class stars like our own have been known to double in brightness for a period of a few minutes to a few days.

Ordinary matter, which makes up the atoms of familiar objects as well as stars and the visible portions of galaxies, accounts for just 4 percent of the cosmos.

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They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens, magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern of images.

Q27 In an ordinary astronomical nova (of the non-super variety), the surface layer of a star explodes in a runaway thermonuclear reaction.

GHOST IN THE SHELL What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist's illustration, might be the result of a single star exploding at least three times, blowing off expanding shells of gas each time.

In fact, a whopping 96 per cent of it is made of something whose very nature we are at a loss to describe — something utterly unlike the ordinary matter that makes up stars and galaxies, planets and moons, birds and bees.

Some, for reasons that are not totally understood, fall under the classification of «magnetars,» which take the already - astounding field of an ordinary neutron star and multiply it by about 1,000 times.

David Bennett of Notre Dame University in Indiana managed to spot two black holes recently by the way they distorted and amplified the light of ordinary, more distant stars.

Astronomers hot on the trail of ordinary matter in the universe — the stuff of people, planets, and stars — have found where half of it was hiding.

The astronomers studying it say Mira was once an ordinary star before ballooning into a red giant 400 times the diameter of the sun.

They used a series of filters, like polarised, glare - blocking sunglasses but bigger and more precise, to observe the light from a nearby, relatively dim neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — and compared it with light from ordinary nearby stars.

Cosmologists and astronomers know that only 5 % of it consists of ordinary matter of the sort found in stars and planets.

Indeed, Vigelius and Melatos found that massive, stable «mountains» can grow on the surface of a neutron star using material stolen from an ordinary companion star.

Right now it's an ordinary - looking, dim red star 63 light - years off, but it is racing toward us so that in a mere million years it will be just three - quarters of a light - year from the sun — roughly 1,000 times farther out than Pluto but well inside the Oort cloud.

The star is travelling away from us at a speed of about 700 kilometres per second — much faster than ordinary stars in the galactic neighbourhood.

The team used this to calculate the mass of the hot DOGs» central black holes, which are heavier relative to the surrounding stars than black holes in an ordinary galaxy (Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/h8g).

However, stars and galaxies account for only about 10 % of the inferred ordinary matter, and all told researchers can not account for up to half of atoms they think should exist.

All ordinary matter — atoms, molecules, people, stars, galaxies — are composed of just two types of quarks, and electrons.

The light emitted by old stars and clumps of hot pristine gas from the early universe suggest helium made up some 25 per cent of the ordinary matter created during the big bang.

Ordinary stars also blow dust into space when they swell into red giants near the end of their lives.

The man who limned the laws that guide the paths of stars, planets, and falling apples had this to say about the universe: «I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»

Any object that either shines or reflects light, like a star or planet, is made of ordinary matter.

The discrepancy is even worse at the cores of the universe's tiny dwarf galaxies, which have few ordinary stars but lots of dark matter.

The unambiguous detection of X rays from other more distant ordinary stars was achieved 30 years later by the orbiting HEAO 2 satellite known as the Einstein Observatory.

It would also attest to subtle quantum interactions that may shape the cores of hypothetical «quark stars,» the piping hot quark soup thought to have saturated the infant universe, and, closer to home, the proton and neutron building blocks of ordinary matter.

Not only will Webb's observations of the stars and other components of our galaxy help astronomers clarify our understanding of its inner workings, it will help to define what's normal for our cosmic neighborhood — so that when we detect something out of the ordinary, we'll know it.

An ordinary pulsar emits «lighthouse beams» of radio waves that rotate with the star.

From industry leaders, sport stars, and Hollywood icons to thousands of everyday, ordinary people, stem cell therapy has helped when standard medicine failed.

When a sufficient amount of dark matter has gathered, it attracts ordinary matter (mostly hydrogen and helium gas) to form stars that may eventually form a luminous galaxy at the core.

If you want to inject a jolt of star - approved style into any ordinary ensemble, there's no better way than with a pair of peep - toe shoes.

However, he also performed in other major productions, including Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000), starring Kevin Spacey; the TV miniseries Kidnapped (1995), starring Armand Assante; A Man of No Importance (1994), starring Albert Finney; and the TV miniseries Scarlett (1994), starring Timothy Dalton.

Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker star as «ordinary» parents who go to extraordinary lengths to protect their mutant children from organizations like Sentinel Services, which, if you've read any X-Men comics or seen one of co-EP Bryan Singer's films, you'll recognize as a real threat.

The others are «Last Days in the Desert» (May 13), from «Albert Nobbs» director Rodrigo Garcia, which stars Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and the Devil (yep, you read that right) in a struggle over the fate of an ordinary family; and writer / director James Napier Robertson's «The Dark Horse» (Apr. 1) a biopic of chess champion Genesis Potini.