Sentences with phrase «radiation from the star»

For detections of the biomarker ozone, the team confirms that there appears to be a «Goldilocks» effect when it comes to the amount of ultraviolet radiation from the star to which the planet is exposed.

The fourth planet from the star has the same density as Earth and receives the same amount of radiation from its star as Earth, Grimm's team reports in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

The hydrogen is evaporating from a warm, Neptune - sized planet, because of the extreme radiation from the star.

But if radiation from stars in a neighboring galaxy strikes the disk, it can destroy molecular hydrogen and turn it into atomic hydrogen, which suppresses cooling, keeping the gas too hot to form stars.

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.

They compared radiation from stars that are analogous to the Sun and identified those that were experiencing minima.

This nebula glows because of the intense radiation from the star Xi Persei.

What is different about the Cloverleaf is the huge quantity of dense gas along with very powerful infrared radiation from the star formation.

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

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

The solution is for the probe's sail to be redeployed upon arrival so that the spacecraft would be optimally decelerated by the incoming radiation from the stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

A jet of gamma radiation from a star halfway across the universe scored a direct hit on Earth last March.

«It's possible the black hole is creating winds that help the ionizing radiation from the stars escape.

New Hubble telescope images show ultraviolet radiation from stars born during the universe's adolescent phase.

-- so it receives 19 times more radiation from its star than Earth does from the sun.

Electromagnetic radiation from the star is analyzed by splitting it with a prism or diffraction grating into a spectrum exhibiting the rainbow of colors interspersed with spectral lines.

Zaritsky suspects that hydrogen gas exists in the dark haloes but that it has been ionised by ultraviolet radiation from stars.

The hydrogen is evaporating from the planet due to extreme radiation from the star.

«The extended atmosphere of this planet makes it a bigger target for high - energy radiation from its star, so more evaporation occurs,» said co-author Scott Wolk, also of CfA.

This animation shows how the exoplanet KELT - 9b is losing part of its substance due to intense radiation from its star.

Beta Pictoris entered the limelight over 20 years ago when NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite detected excess infrared 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.

Ultraviolet radiation from the star, coupled with some movement of the planet toward its sun, could evaporate much of that primordial atmosphere and leave behind a rocky, possibly water - rich world.

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

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

Here, the bright orange lanes have been whittled away by ultraviolet radiation from the star, turning them into knots with cometlike tails.

This discovery refutes existing theories, indicating that ultraviolet radiation from the star would destroy molecular gas and dust, and bringing the first direct detection of ionized gas wind along with a supersonic jet and an accretion disk.

«The atmospheres of planets orbiting close to their host stars are susceptible to being blowtorched away by the extreme radiation from the star,» said Fulton during the briefing.

According to the new theory, radiation from the stars would boil off hydrogen in the planets» atmospheres.