Sentences with phrase «stars eject»

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: As these neutron stars come together, the stars eject some material in their tidal tails into space at very close to the speed of light.

And because the LMC is orbiting the Milky Way at nearly 400 kilometers per second, a star ejected from it could be moving faster than the 500 kilometers per second that makes it a hypervelocity star in the Milky Way.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.

Another way Wolf - Rayet stars are said to form is when a massive star ejects its own hydrogen envelope in a strong stellar wind streaming with charged particles.

If you work your way in from the outside to the star's center, you're retracing the process by which the star ejected its outer layers.

At the end of their short lives, the first stars ejected these elements into space, where they gave shape to tiny grains of dust.

Researchers think dying stars ejected the loops, but this stellar nursery also produces new stars.

Not exact matches

the atoms of iron in your blood, the gold you may have in a ring, the carbon in your cells all was forged in the heart of a long dead star and ejected out into the universe.

Whether this will happen is not clear, the astronomers say, since some of the gas may end up condensing into stars or might be ejected from the quasar.

If I haven't accurately painted the picture on everything Sexton's about just yet, let me remind you of a night in November, when the five - star recruit took on the Minnesota Golden Gophers 3 - on - 5 after most of his team was ejected, scored 40 points and nearly won the dang game himself.

A rising star in the party until she was ejected from parliament in 2015, Swinson defeated her SNP rival with a huge swing.

Observations revealed a previously theorized process dubbed a «kilonova» — thought to be a source of heavy elements like gold, silver, platinum and uranium — which could form as neutron - rich material is ejected from the stars.

It's amazing that only now, with large telescopes like ALMA and the upgraded ATCA, we can peek through the bulk of debris ejected when the star exploded and see what's hiding underneath.»

Two giant polar lobes form when strongly magnetized material ejected from the star's center distorts and fails to launch cleanly away.

They are the colourful, ejected shrouds of dying stars, which offer a brief window into the history of many stars» lives, including that of our Sun.

Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory).

Plunkett said the technology allows researchers to determine details about the star formation process, such as how often material is accreted or ejected, on time scales of a few hundred years.

These stars are born in clusters inside the Milky Way but get ejected during gravitational jostling with other stars.

In the failed supernova of a red supergiant, the envelope of the star is ejected and expands, producing a cold, red transient source surrounding the newly formed black hole, as illustrated by the expanding shell (left to right).

Previous work suggests the star was ejected at over 1500 kilometres per second.

For example, SN 2017egm might have ejected less mass than its supernova counterparts because its massive star might have shed mass before exploding.

YOUTHFUL runaways are nothing new — even in space, where a brush with a black hole can eject young stars from the galaxy.

The diffuse cloud in this image, taken with the Carnegie Institution for Science's Swope telescope in Chile, is the shell of hot hydrogen gas ejected by a white dwarf star on March 11, 1437.

One such star is hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers per hour, researchers report in the March 6 Science, making it the fastest - moving star to be ejected from our galaxy.

Impostors undergo brilliant outbursts that eject material but don't destroy the star.

Such stars end their lives in huge supernova explosions, ejecting their stellar materials outwards into space and leaving behind an extremely dense and compact object; this could either be a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole.

It could have been ejected by a collision during planet formation, sent hurtling free of the star's gravitational grasp approximately 40 million years ago.

Astrophysicist Steinn Sigurdsson of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, thinks one scenario advanced in the papers is likely: that gas from a third star, now ejected from the system, spun up the pulsar long ago in the globular cluster's crowded core.

To feed, the starfish wrap themselves around their coral prey, eject their stomachs, and then digest the coral outside their star - shaped body.

New stars are springing into life within the bright, colorful «head» of NGC 4861 and ejecting streams of high - speed particles as they do so, which flood outwards to join the wider galactic wind.

Known as 2014J, this was a Type la supernova caused by the explosion of a white dwarf star, the inner core of star once it has run out of nuclear fuel and ejected its outer layers.

Astronomers have been waiting for Voyager to cross this boundary — the heliopause, where solar particles give way to even speedier particles ejected by other stars — and enter interstellar space.

«This is particularly important because it indicates that as successive generations of stars die and eject the elements they produced into the galaxy, the heaviest elements are produced together, while previous work had suggested that this was not the case,» Dauphas explained.

But pushing against this is the fact that bigger stars also shine brighter, to the point that their sheer radiance should eject their own outer layers.

Adrian Bowyer remarks that if strange - quark matter were ejected by the «shock wave of a collapsing neutron star», then lumps...

New research from the University of Washington indicates that certain shot - period binary star systems eject circumbinary planets as a consequence of the host stars» evolution.

Such a process is known to occur in planetary systems when close encounters can cast a planet into deep space, and within galaxies when a star can get ejected, but these lonely compact galaxies are the result of slingshots on a supergalactic scale.

But the most likely reason, researchers report in a paper accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that these extrasolar planets would simply be ejected by the gravitational forces that result when their parent stars get jostled about inside tightly - packed star clusters — the same clusters in which most stars are thought to be formed.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.

These particles annihilate one another with so much energy that when the supernova begins, they eject the star's constituent elements entirely, with no neutron star or black hole left behind.

As the hot Jupiter dashes inward, its gravity ejects any smaller planets near the star, both explaining the absence of close planetary neighbors and suggesting that solar systems with hot Jupiters are unlikely to host life - bearing worlds resembling Earth.

Warren Brown at the Harvard - Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, agrees that the star was probably ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud, as there are no other galaxies in the vicinity.

The simulations show that gravitational interactions involving giants in outer orbits can eject smaller planets from the system, nudge them into their stars or send them crashing into each other.

One dramatic consequence is that some of the star's material, stripped from the star and collected around the black hole, can be ejected in extremely narrow beams of particles at speeds approaching the speed of light.

Radio observations constrain the energy and geometry of relativistic material ejected from a binary neutron star merger.

When they die, stars explode in supernovae, leaving behind a cloud of ejected material called a supernova remnant.

Interstellar shockwaves — turbulence that accompanies the birth of stars, for instance — provide the energy to overcome chemical barriers to reactions and to eject newly formed molecules into the surrounding gas.

When the supernova remnant RCW 103 was first observed 25 years ago, it seemed to be a textbook example of a massive star's death: a gaseous cloud of ejected material surrounding a neutron star only about 12 miles across.

Left: An artist captures the two merging neutron stars: Gravitational waves ripple from the collision; gamma rays eject after impact and swirling clouds of matter glow with multiple wavelengths of light.

As the ejected material rammed into the cloud, some energy from its motion could have been converted into light and heat, powering the dying star's extreme and persistent brightness.