Sentences with phrase «star systems called»

There's big news this week from 40 light years away, a star system called TRAPPIST - 1.

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) instrument set its eyes on a dusty star system called Eta Corvi, depicted here in this artist's concept.

[1] GG Tau - A is part of a more complex multiple - star system called GG Tauri.

A research group led by Anne Dutrey from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France and CNRS used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the distribution of dust and gas in a multiple - star system called GG Tau - A [1].

Not exact matches

This star system, called HD 97048, is located about 500 light - years away.

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

BlackBerry fell behind Windows mobile device operating system for the first time, the Star reported last week, shortly after the Waterloo company that used to be called Research in Motion announced it was looking at alternatives for its future, including a sale.

to dandintac, the evolution of stars or solar systems or life forms to different species takes billons of years to complete., that we in our lifetime cant comprehend its teleology or purposefullness.At the University of Illinois, a super computer called The nautilus, predicts the future by analysing through computational methods mathematical algorithim the historical inputs for hundreds of years and discovered that it has a direction or intepreted as has a purpose.Someday in the future when we will be technologically advanced, Gods will will be clearly reveald to us.All of this will be part of his will, at this time beyond our comprehension, but will be in the future, The next generation of quantum computers which are tens of thousands more powerfull and faster than todays will provide us the informations to solidify the future religious faith based in science.

What I mean by Theology, continues Newman, is none of these things: «I simply mean the Science of God, or the truths we know about God, put into a system, just as we have a science of the stars and call it astronomy, or of the crust of the earth and call it geology.»

It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.

In addition to our solar system's eight near - and - dear planets, there are more than 800 so - called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun.

The «Five Star» system — so called because it gets offensive stars Miralem Pjanic, Juan Cuadrado, Mario Mandzukic, Gonzalo Higuain and Paulo Dybala on the field at the same time — was considered extraordinarily risky when it was first deployed on Jan. 22 against Lazio.

Since then, different U.S. administrations have tried to make even the concept of MAD obsolete with the development of ballistic missile defense systems, culminating in the 1980s with the so - called «Star Wars» project of President Reagan aimed at deploying a global shield in space against nuclear ballistic missiles.

The UK and US have been engaged in talks over the so - called Son of Star Wars missile defence system.

One private effort, called Breakthrough Starshot, hopes to send such craft on a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri, the star system nearest Earth, within a generation.

Justin R. Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics, was part of the team that discovered KELT - 4Ab, a so - called «hot Jupiter» because it is a gas giant that orbits extremely close to one of the stars in its solar system.

Mordehai Milgrom began his career studying objects called ultracompact neutron stars in binary star systems.

If launched tomorrow toward the nearest port of call — Proxima b, a potentially habitable Earth - mass planet recently discovered in the triple star system of Alpha Centauri about four light - years away — that rocket would take 80,000 years to arrive.

On June 23, Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to send spacecraft to another star system, launched half a dozen probes called Sprites to test how their electronics fare in outer space.

The system, called POX 186, is a puny collection of perhaps 10 million stars — just 1/10, 000 as massive as our Milky Way.

Astronomy textbooks have long told neophyte stargazers that three of every five points of light in the night sky are waltzing pairs of stars called binary systems.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

Starting with the total amount of observed infrared light, the researchers had to subtract the so - called zodiacal light produced by dust within our solar system and infrared light from stars and dust in the rest of our galaxy.

The HOSTS Survey has determined that the typical level of zodiacal dust around other stars — called «exo - zodiacal dust» — is less than 15 times the amount found in our own solar system's habitable zone.

Researchers expect to find water on many planets outside the solar system, called exoplanets, including Jupiter - size gas giants such as HD 189733 b and HD 209458 b, which orbits a different star.

With the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany and a company called Desert Star Systems in California, he plans to attach four small disks containing Helmholtz coils to a shark's head, two above and two beneath, like buns on a shark sandwich.

Ultra-compact dwarfs, highlighted here within the so - called Fornax galaxy cluster, are a type of small star system.

That makes the system, around a star called TRAPPIST - 1, a prime target in the search for signs of alien life.

The software, called ExoPlex, allowed the team to combine all of the available information about the TRAPPIST - 1 system, including the chemical makeup of the star, rather than being limited to just the mass and radius of individual planets.

The system is called an X-ray binary because it emits X-rays as material from the companion star spirals onto the much denser neutron star and is heated to very high temperatures.

And in the future, a technique called optical interferometry, which links together the observations of more than one telescope, might make it possible to see the multiple lensed images produced by the planets of another star system.

The trio is not the only so - called circumbinary system known, but it is the first for which researchers have been able to measure the properties of both stars and the planet so precisely, and the first system where the planet has been directly detected, rather than inferred.

The astronomers spotted the solar system due to a phenomenon called gravitational microlensing — when the gravity of a star focuses the light from a more distant star and magnifies it like a lens.

This year DARPA started a project called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System — more catchily dubbed Luke's Binoculars (a reference to Luke Skywalker from Star Wars)-- that combines advanced optics with an EEG system that monitors brain wave activity in the prefrontal cSystem — more catchily dubbed Luke's Binoculars (a reference to Luke Skywalker from Star Wars)-- that combines advanced optics with an EEG system that monitors brain wave activity in the prefrontal csystem that monitors brain wave activity in the prefrontal cortex.

A detailed survey of the so - called Carina Nebula, a star - forming region relatively close to our solar system, is turning up evidence that numerous stars have already gone supernova there, and that many more may do the same in the millions of years to come.

Four and a half billion years ago, the place we now call the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust enshrouding a newborn star.

It's what you might call the traditional Copernican system in the middle, and then on the outer perimeter there are the stars, but the stars just sort of keep going and going, they don't seem to have any sort of boundary and they're not attached to a crystalline sphere.

Cygnus X-1 was found as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an accretion disk around an invisible object.

Observations of the explosions of white dwarf stars in binary systems, so - called Type Ia supernovae, in the 1990s then led scientists to the conclusion that a third component, dark energy, made up 68 % of the cosmos, and is responsible for driving an acceleration in the expansion of the universe.

The stellar system closest to Earth consists of three stars: the closely orbiting pair of Alpha Centauri A and B, and an outlier called Proxima Centauri.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

For instance, the IAU states that it is not allowed to propose the same name for a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.»

The detailed properties of stars in these systems are studied to reconstruct the stellar contents of galaxies in the early stage, which is called «Galactic Archeology» or «near - field cosmology.»

When both stars of a binary system can be seen individually in a telescope, the pair is called a visual binary.

This month, a privately funded project called Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it is partnering with the European Southern Observatory to use similar vortex technology to find and image a putative Earth - like planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system.

Observing this periodic dimming, called a transit, from continual monitoring of a star's brightness, allows astronomers to detect planets outside our solar system with a high degree of certainty.

The composition of the matter from which the solar system formed is deduced from that of stony meteorites called chondrites and from the composition of the Sun's atmosphere, supplemented by data acquired from spectral observations of hot stars and gaseous nebulas.

A phenomenon called gravitational microlensing, where the gravity from a foreground star momentarily bends and amplifies light from a background star, was used to do a statistical search for solar systems like ours.

Earth and the other seven planets that circle the star we call the sun and smaller objects such as moons make up our solar system.

Recently, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope helped reveal that a star called TRAPPIST - 1 is circled by seven Earth - size planets — the first system of this kind found to date.