Sentences with phrase «small number of stars»

In addition to the traditional names, a small number of stars that are «interesting» can have modern English names.

A small number of stars moving so fast they'll eventually escape the Milky Way may not have come from our galaxy at all.

A small number of stars moving so fast they'll eventually escape the Milky Way may not come from our galaxy at all, a new study reveals.

That's tall praise, because the new result seems to contradict his own work, which had found a lower fluorine abundance in a smaller number of stars.

Not exact matches

Shannon used to run large diversified funds — she was once a star manager at CI Financial — but she now manages portfolios that hold a smaller number of mostly Canadian stocks.

Physicists and Astronomers, numbering just 2,200 in Canada, are the smallest niche on this list, but their field is about all of time and space, from the stars to the atomic level.

Goldberg says the number may seem small — a news app isn't going to go viral — but touts a 4.5 - star rating in the App Store and an average session time of seven minutes.

If the force of gravity varied by any more than this infinitesimally small number, then stars would burn either too hot or too cold for the chemical building blocks of life to form.

The results thereby rule out a number of models of neutron star matter, namely all models that predict a neutron star radius smaller than 10.7 kilometers.

Just as a relatively small number of zillionaires are scarfing up more and more of the nation's earnings, a top echelon of scientific «stars» are scoring a growing share of scientific publications.

The standard approach of researching exoplanets, or planets that orbit distant stars, has entailed studying small numbers of objects to determine if they have the right gases in the appropriate quantities and ratios to indicate the existence of life.

The other side of darkness In April's Sky Lights [«A Lighter Shade of Black»] Bob Berman presents the paradox suggested by astronomer Heinrich Olbers: «If we live in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, then... every point of the sky, no matter how small, should be filled with starlight....

[2] This quantity is in fact much larger than the numbers quoted by previous studies which surveyed smaller regions, leaving out many of the cluster's stars that lie further from its core.

So a number of observational projects have taken a different tack, trying to identify small KBOs by monitoring background stars for sudden dips in brightness that might result from a distant object crossing the line of sight between the star and Earth.

That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars.

In a small number of the simulations, it eventually wound up in a stable orbit around one of the stars.

«We will also target a small number of red dwarf stars (such as Barnard's star which was discovered by Vanderbilt's first astronomer) because these are the stars nearest to us.

The researchers also hope to gain insight into the make - up of the very early universe, by studying the hydrogen and helium atoms that are being illuminated by the small number of very bright stars within the Little Cub — which also has the less romantic name SDSS J1044 +6306.

An OB association consists of many hot blue - giant stars, spectral classes O and B, and a relatively small number of other objects.

However, because the spin of a star is measured using the movement of dark starspots, which are smaller and fewer in number in older stars, it makes determining the age of these stars extremely difficult.

In contrast, true transiting planets would appear clustered around a smaller number of Kepler targets if detectable planets tend to come in systems and / or if the orbital planes of planets encircling the same star are correlated.

This phenomenon is considered responsible for the small number of new stars most galaxies in the known universe produce every year.

Three of these faintly - lit bodies, located in the southern hemisphere near the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, were confirmed as dwarf galaxies, which contain stars numbering in the thousands in contrast to our galaxy, which is believed to contain over 300 billion stars.

A third mission, called PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), proposed using a number of small, optically fast, wide - field telescopes to detect and characterize a large number of close - by exoplanetary systems.

The number of stars needed to produce the tremendous luminosity could not be packed into the small region and neither would they produce the peculiar non-thermal radiation.

Rather, star names are selected on a non-commercial basis by a small number of international organizations of astronomers, scientists, and registration bodies, who assign names consisting usually of a Greek letter followed by the star's constellation name, or less frequently based on their ancient traditional name.

The Quintuplet contains a number of smaller but similarly hot, Wolf - Rayet stars that are also throwing off tremendous quantities of mass and ionizing the surrounding gas (Moneti et al, 1998).

Further, the size of the stars itself can greatly vary from something that is the size of our sun, to something dozens of times smaller or bigger.The number of stars is approximately...

The K2 mission allows us to increase the number of small, red stars by a factor of 20 for further study.»

MARVELS is predicted to discover around a hundred new giant planets, as well as potentially finding a similar number of «brown dwarfs» that are intermediate between the most massive planets and the smallest stars.

According to a growing number of experts, those exhilarating, Instagrammable moments don't permanently raise the setting on your day - to - day blissometer — and by chasing fleeting highs, you may be missing the opportunity for true joy, with a small j. «We live in a culture that tells us we're supposed to be euphoric all the time, but that feeling isn't sustainable,» says life coach and sociologist Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star ($ 16; amazon.com).

The video shows small gameplay tidbits for each of the pre-loaded games, a collection which includes the likes of Dragon Quest, a number of Dragon Ball games, and Fist of the North Star.

Last Jedi director Rian Johnson isn't letting a small number of angry Star Wars fans bring...

Lastly, a small number of cast and crew reflect on the success of X-Men on the eve of X2, Stewart well - spoken once more in equating the stakes of «Star Trek: The Next Generation» with X-Men — he's somewhat adamant that «Trek» was the bigger gamble.

Since then, his career has taken a number of exciting and unpredictable turns, moving from small - budget character studies (All the Real Girls) to a star - studded stoner comedy (Pineapple Express) and TV shows as varied as Eastbound & Down and Red Oaks.

Frank Langella has joined the cast of Unknown White Male, rounding out the cast of the Liam Neeson - starring thriller, presumably because he's one of a relatively small number of actors in Hollywood tall enough to pretty much look Neeson in the eye.

Instead, he returned to theatre work (including Getting Out and Flux) as well as small TV roles, in soap operas such as Search For Tomorrow, which also featured a number of other would - be stars, such as Viggo Mortenson, Kevin Kline and Angela Bassett.

After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of Zorro and the 1999 crime thriller film Entrapment.

Julianne later broke into film in a number of small roles in mainstream films like «The Hand That Rocks the Cradle» and «The Fugitive,» before becoming a starring actress of her own.

Fruitvale Station showed the world Coogler can create an all star movie with a small budget, and Creed showed Coogler can handle the pressure of recreating a sinking movie franchise with box office hit numbers.

The resource can be printed on and is fully differentiated from one star (lots of support and small data sets) through to 3 star (larger data sets, even numbers of data and more challenging questions).

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Experience everything from five - star resort retreats and hotels, to barefoot paradises, all exclusive by virtue of their remoteness, their unique iconic location or the small number of guests at any one time.

If the relaxed ambience and friendly locals of Caye Caulker make you want to spend more time there, there are a number of lodging options ranging from small boutique hotels to five - star luxury resorts.

But times they are a-changing and there are a growing number of small flashpacker resorts in the area plus one 4 star option in the Mercure Hideaway.

St. Barths is renowned as a tropical playground for the rich and famous, so it follows that this small island would be home to a disproportionate number of luxurious resorts; in fact, it's much easier to find a five - star hotel on St. Barths than a budget or moderate property.

You are not limited in your choice of hotels either, as all inclusive holidays in Pollensa are available from a vast number of hotels with an array of different star - ratings: with small, intimate hotels for couples and beautiful full service set - ups for families, there's something to suit every type of traveller in Puerto Pollensa.

If Nintendo can cut through some of the controversy caused by the small number of launch hardware issues, get a solid stream of first and third party titles out and maybe make good on the much rumoured Pokemon Stars as well, then Switch should fly off the shelves come Christmas.

The development of Phantasy Star was already underway when I got hired, so I was only able to help a little bit, and of the many enemies in Phantasy Star, only a small number were my designs.

There are 7 main shield landmarks and inside each are smaller shields that have a number of battles inside them, the smaller shields have stars you can earn it just depends how many battles you win.