Sentences with phrase «of radiation from the star»

And the planet orbits so closely that bursts of radiation from the star might have wiped out any chance of life.

Not exact matches

Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

These include the products of radioactive decay, cosmic rays (the highest - energy form of electromagnetic radiation known to man), and the stellar wind, a stream of particles that fly out from any star as it continuously burns.

4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained on the early earth until it was cool enough for oceans to form 7s) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

Secondly, that this light and stable «cream» of any given star, having escaped beyond the reach of the tempest of energy blazing at the heart of the parent - body, may yet remain sufficiently close to it to derive a moderate benefit from its radiations: for the large molecules need energy for their synthesis.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

In the hopes of seeing the gas clouds from which the first stars arose, Loeb has devoted much of the past decade to a new field called 21 - centimeter cosmology, a branch of radio astronomy that focuses on identifying electromagnetic radiation that started out with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

Infrared radiation passes through interstellar dust much more easily than visible light, so by looking at the infrared light from a galaxy we can learn about the new stars forming within the clouds of dust and gas.

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

The lack of infrared glow from the galaxy across a broad range of wavelengths, however, suggests that there's very little dust there to absorb and then re-radiate the stars» radiation, the team notes.

This suggests that lightning might be most likely on planets with plenty of light and radiation from a host star to create wind.

Powerful radiation from supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies creates winds that can blow gas out of the galaxies, halting star formation.

These opaque blobs resemble drops of ink floating in a strawberry cocktail, their whimsical shapes sculpted by powerful radiation coming from the nearby brilliant young stars.

Emission nebulae like IC 2944 are composed mostly of hydrogen gas that glows in a distinctive shade of red, due to the intense radiation from the many brilliant newborn stars.

«The evidence that these new gravitational waves are from merging neutron stars has been captured, for the first time, by observatories on Earth and in orbit that detect electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and other wavelengths,» said Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy & astrophysics and Freed Early Career Professor at Penn State.

The country's newest space lab, Tiangong - 2, for example, hosts a number of scientific payloads, including an advanced atomic clock and a $ 3.4 - million detector called POLAR for the study of γ - ray bursts — blasts of high - energy radiation from collapsing stars and other sources.

Taken with Juno's star - tracking navigation camera, the shot reveals that «heaven looks the same to us from Jupiter,» said Heidi Becker, leader of Juno's radiation monitoring team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

But if that was the case they should have annihilated in a blaze of radiation, leaving nothing from which to make the stars and galaxies.

Gregg Hallinan of the California Institute of Technology and colleagues have detected both types of radiation from what appears to be a brown dwarf, an object that straddles the boundary between planet and star.

Although Proxima Centauri's dimness provides the planet with a balmy climate, the star is prone to outbursts of harsh X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which could damage any chance of life on the planet — X-rays hit the surface 400 times more often than those from the sun pummel Earth.

By observing the combined infrared radiation of star and planet with Spitzer and then subtracting the radiation recorded from the star alone when it hid the planet, Deming and Charbonneau had detected the heat of the planet itself.

The Australian telescope was one of several payloads carried into space by the shuttle Endeavour to observe ultraviolet radiation from stars and galaxies.

A computer model developed by the team suggests that the grains must reach the size of boulders within a million years; otherwise, the dust particles and circumstellar gases will be blown apart by fierce ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's hottest, most massive young stars.

Charcoal - black world HD 149026b (illustrated here) absorbs most of the radiation it gets from its very nearby star, pushing temperatures to 3700 degrees Fahrenheit, above the boiling point of lead.

Known as pulsars, the dead stars emit beams of radiation that sweep past Earth at regular intervals, like the rotating beams from a lighthouse.

Using data gleaned from the Hubble telescope, researchers have calculated the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation the planets receive from their star, a Hubble press release reports.

There the only stray radiation the observatory would have to compensate for would come from stars, the trace debris of comets and asteroids, and the telescope's own electronics (which would sit on a boom several yards away).

These are fast - moving knots of bright gas that seem to be shielded somehow from the harsh radiation of a nebula's dying star.

In a 2008 study, Haiman and his colleagues hypothesized that radiation from a massive neighboring galaxy could split molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen and cause the nascent black hole and its host galaxy to collapse rather than spawn new clusters of stars.

Bright beams of radiation shine from the stars» magnetic poles.

There are many open questions about 55 Cancri e, especially: Why has the atmosphere not been stripped away from the planet, given the perilous radiation environment of the star?

The spacecraft's telescopes are sensitive to radiation from the hot outer atmospheres of stars like the Sun and white dwarfs, formed when stars about the size of the Sun reach the end of their lives.

«While these systems are interesting, they are dark in any other form of radiation and relatively little can be understood from them compared to binary neutron star systems.

But the high - energy radiation from the source has shown no sign of dying down, which suggests that astronomers may have caught a star in the process of being ripped to shreds by a black hole.

The lava on the dayside would reflect radiation from the star, contributing to the overall observed temperature of the planet.

Stars quickly clear dust away from their vicinity by the force of their radiation, so the presence of a dusty disc suggests collisions between asteroids or comets are replenishing it.

Temperatures in the low stratosphere rise because of molecules absorbing radiation from the star (right).

New observations show that tiny galaxies in the early universe could have triggered the epoch of reionization — a period when harsh radiation tore apart hydrogen atoms — which astronomers consider key to understanding how stars and galaxies arose from the universe's early dark void.

A sensitive new radiation detector enables astronomers to explore regions of the universe hidden from optical telescopes, such as sites where stars are now being born

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

Using computer models and distinctive radiation seen from a previous supernova explosion, theorists had already suspected that turbulence at the center of a supernova would propel bullets of iron - rich material through a star's outer layers.

Once formed, radiation from the stars would blow away the rest of the gas cloud.

In a very massive star, photon radiation — the outward flux of photons that is generated due to the star's very high interior temperatures — pushes gas from the star outward in opposition to the gravitational force that pulls the gas back in.

This is where radiation from distant stars is brought to a focus by the Sun's gravitational field, which would allow a visiting probe to resolve objects at the centre of...

Another team used ground - based telescopes to look for radiation from gas and dust spiraling onto dozens of brown dwarfs and low - mass stars — the largest such survey conducted to date.

Astronomers have known for about a decade ultraviolet and X-ray radiation from the main star in HD 189733 are evaporating the atmosphere of HD 189733b over time.

A nearby star features a comet - like tail that could be the outer reaches of a protoplanetary disk evaporating under the intense ultraviolet radiation from IRS 2.

These so - called starbursts are difficult to observe from Earth, as their dusty shrouds absorb much of the optical light from the stars and re-radiate it as longer - wavelength radiation to which Earth's atmosphere is mostly opaque.

Material falling from the exploded star onto the compact companion would have been heated and blasted back into space in two narrow jets, along with a beam of radiation.