Sentences with phrase «shaped by stars»

When we look at the night sky, the cosmic landscape that we see is shaped by stars.

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That's why the «Every Body Happy» campaign used by Blink Fitness stood out for recruiting a group of its members, with bodies of all shapes and sizes, to star in the 2017 campaign.

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

Called Eta Carinae, the double - star system is shrouded by a dumbbell - shaped nebula of gas and dust that erupted nearly two centuries ago.

In contrast, Immanuel Kant and Pierre de Laplace argued that planetary development was part of a normal process to be expected in the life of almost every star: they assumed the young sun was surrounded by a thin lens - shaped gaseous envelope (solar nebula) which later condensed into planets.

Make stars out of jicama by using a small star cookie to cut shapes.

«So, we can shave an hour off of that,» the chef said, reaching into his briefcase and producing an honorary star - shaped badge once presented to him by a Texas sheriff.

«So far, we are in good shape,» Warburton said, as reported by the Daily Star.

Byron Marshall in serious shape The Valley Christian football star is absolutely ripped and ready for track action as he showed earlier this season by going a lifetime best 10.61 in the 100 meters at the St. Francis Invitational on March 17.

If you disregard the whole Tevez saga, which is difficult and possibly foolish considering he's their star man, their leading goalscorer and former captain, although the latter is set to change as Mancini names Kolo Toure as his new club captain, a player who will actually by a model professional and lead by example, then you will see that City are in very good shape heading into this fixture.

The equipment has star shaped electronic toy lights and classic melodies to which are activated by the baby's motion.

And finish it off by cutting a star shape (an adult may have to do this part) and gluing this on to the top of the tree.

Globulars are ancient ball - shaped collections of hundreds of thousands of stars bound by their own gravity.

Those metals, forged by the explosions of dying stars, were mixed throughout the disk of gas and dust from which planets and asteroids took shape.

Astronomers were observing a very young star (the position of which is marked in the image by the star shape) known to have a disk of material surrounding it, the kind that forms planets.

The spiral shape is commonplace, with a massive black hole at the centre, surrounded by a bulge of old stars, and arms winding outwards where relatively young stars like the Sun are found.

The Betelgeuse image by Roger Lynds and his team at Kitt Peak National Observatory — the one that got my younger self so worked up — used this technique to show the star's overall size and shape, but it didn't reliably capture any specific surface detail.

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.

H II regions like RCW 106 are clouds of hydrogen gas that are being ionised by the intense starlight of scorching - hot, young stars, causing them to glow and display weird and wonderful shapes.

Yet while his images show great diversity in shapes, they are dominated by symmetrical, six - sided star - like beauties.

In fact, tests undertaken on red blood cells showed that the star - shaped polymer dosage rate would need to be increased by a factor of greater than 100 to become toxic.

By combining the power of a «natural lens» in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact yet massive, fast - spinning, disk - shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

The star - shaped structures, are short chains of proteins called «peptide polymers», and were created by a team from the Melbourne School of Engineering.

Gravity tends to pull stars and planets into tidy spheres, but these shapes can be altered by random motions and interactions.

This visible - light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake - shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy.

For decades, astronomers have suspected that planetary nebulae — dazzlingly colorful shrouds of gas cast off by dying stars — owe their weird but often symmetrical shapes to the sculpting magnetic forces of two stars orbiting each other at the nebula's center.

Astronomers have found that an extrasolar planet's orbit is so elongated and tilted that its path was probably gravitationally shaped by two stars instead of the usual, single central star.

Like the dense rock spires that form from erosion in a windblown desert, the gaseous pillars in the Eagle nebula have been shaped and compressed by the stellar winds and energetic ultraviolet light from the nebula's massive stars.

Adding to the black hole's intrigue is the environment in which it formed: The scientists have deduced that the black hole took shape just as the universe was undergoing a fundamental shift, from an opaque environment dominated by neutral hydrogen to one in which the first stars started to blink on.

Hoscheit's new analysis, according to Barger, shows that Keenan's first estimations of the KBC void, which is shaped like a sphere with a shell of increasing thickness made up of galaxies, stars and other matter, are not ruled out by other observational constraints.

As first noted more than a decade ago by astronomer Luc F. A. Arnold, particularly large panels or groups of panels flying in formation — even bigger, perhaps, than the star itself — would cause huge, discrete dips related to their geometric shape as they transited.

By sampling long - wavelength light outside the obscuring blanket of the atmosphere, the spacecraft will have an unprecedented view of those stars and galaxies taking shape.

Although the Keck was unable to pick out a nearby star, the computer simulations suggest that the dust stream is probably shaped by colliding stellar winds.

Scientists studying brain diseases may need to look beyond nerve cells and start paying attention to the star - shaped cells known as «astrocytes,» because they play specialized roles in the development and maintenance of nerve circuits and may contribute to a wide range of disorders, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers.

By 2005, Janka had developed more sophisticated code for a model that more accurately represented the shape of the star, though it was still an approximation.

He demonstrated that the distribution of stars by mass has the shape of a power law with exponent of -2.35, i.e. the stars 10 times massive than our Sunare102.35 = 220times less frequent then Solar type stars.

Now two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, the brothers Carlos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, together with the researcher Sverre J. Aarseth of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), have analyzed for the first time the nearly 340 objects of the solar system with hyperbolic orbits (very open V - shaped, not the typical elliptical), and in doing so they have detected that the trajectory of some of them is influenced by the passage of Scholz's star.

They come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes, many with their own moons, some in peculiar orbits that have been pushed by Neptune or pulled by passing stars.

«By picking up the gravitational waves associated with these events, we will be able to access precious information that was previously hidden, such as whether the collision of a star and a black hole has ignited the burst and roughly how massive these objects were before the impact,» explained Dr Ohme, who has focused his research on predicting the exact shape of the gravitational wave signals scientists are expecting to see.

The researchers also made a claw shape by sticking together eight 5 - by - 1 millimeter ribbons of flash - treated graphene oxide in a star shape.

He admits to being fascinated by the fine, comet - shaped knots recently observed inside the Helix nebula - they are clumps of molecular gas that escaped being ionized by the star's ultraviolet blast - but only because they relate to the big picture.

Instead, the X-ray data show the gas near the black hole likely originates from winds produced by a disk - shaped distribution of young massive stars.

Gas and dust clouds in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars.

«By taking advantage of the power of ALMA to see fine details, we can understand much better what happens to the star before, during and after the thermal pulse, by studying how the shell and the spiral structure are shaped,» says MaerckeBy taking advantage of the power of ALMA to see fine details, we can understand much better what happens to the star before, during and after the thermal pulse, by studying how the shell and the spiral structure are shaped,» says Maerckeby studying how the shell and the spiral structure are shaped,» says Maercker.

To determine whether the objects on their list were planets rather than other stars, the researchers looked at the shape of the light curve caused by the transits; U-shaped curves generally indicate a planet, while V - shaped curves would usually indicate another star interacting with the one being observed, Kipping explains.

The strange shape was probably created by a hidden companion star orbiting the red giant.

In fact, the ring - like shape is the result of the gravitational disruption caused by a small intruder galaxy passing through a large one, compressing the interstellar gas and dust, and causing a wave of star formation wave to move out from the impact point like a ripple across the surface of a pond.

Given that Tau Ceti does not appear to be a young star, the ring of dusty debris is believed to be produced by collisions between larger comets and asteroids that break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, and Tau Ceti's disk is similar in size and shape to the disk of comets and asteroids that orbits the Sun, Sol.

In their study, published on March 27 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), the researchers speculate that this could have been the origin of «Oumuamua: It was slingshot out of its home star system by a giant planet after being stretched into its peculiar cigar - like shape by extreme tidal pressures.

Most have been revealed by the way the planets influence their parent stars, but Quillen has been working for years on understanding the delicate interaction between stellar dust disks and the planets that shape them.