Sentences with phrase «stars millions of light years»

One of the best I ever heard was a Creationist, when challenged that the Earth must be older since we can see light from stars millions of light years away, answered that God created the light already on its way so that we'd see it.

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One of the planets, a Neptune - sized planet orbiting a star about 470 light years away, is just 11 million years old.

As children learn the simple Trigonometry with which to measure the millions of light years distance of stars, they think they have to chose between accepting math or Christianity.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

How is that possible if it takes millions of years for the light from such distant stars to reach us?

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LIGO should be able to pick up the relatively high frequencies of any neutron stars or black holes spiraling together within about 600 million light - years of Earth.

Using data gathered in August 2017 during a neutron star merger that occurred between 85 million and 160 million light - years away (an event in which the colliding stars together weighed about three times the mass of our sun), current astrophysical models suggest that that single event generated between one and five Earth masses of europium and between three and 13 Earth masses of gold, the researchers report this month in The Astrophysical Journal.

Befitting its «high definition» moniker, HDST's huge mirror could capture features the size of Manhattan in the cloudscapes of Jupiter and track the motions of individual sunlike stars in galaxies up to 30 million light - years away.

The gravitational swell originated more than 750 million light - years away, where the high - speed dance of two converging black holes shook the very foundation upon which planets, stars and galaxies reside.

«It's therefore quite remarkable that the observation of a single binary neutron star merger that occurred millions of light years away combined with the universal relations discovered through our theoretical work have allowed us to solve a riddle that has seen so much speculation in the past.»

About 500 million years after the Big Bang, one of the first galaxies in the universe formed, containing stars of about the same mass as the sun — which can live for 10 billion years — as well as lighter stars.

A neutron star collision 130 million light - years away produced gold, silver, platinum and other heavy elements, Emily Conover reported in «Neutron star collision showers the universe with a wealth of discoveries» (SN: 11/11/17, p. 6).

Corbin and Vacca propose that two «subgalactic» clumps of stars, each perhaps just 300 light - years across, crashed to create POX 186 within the last 100 million years — recently enough that the new galaxy hasn't yet settled down.

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light - years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000 - light - year - long stretch of the galaxy's pancake - shaped disk.

They burn through their nuclear fuel in mere tens of millions of years, while the lightest stars have lifetimes that span many tens of billions of years.

The final composite is a 61,000 - light - year - long panorama of our galactic neighbor encompassing the light of nearly 117 million stars...

We've taken the first pictures of neutron stars colliding 130 million light years away.

Of course most stars are found in galaxies, so there could be a million instances of complex life in the Milky Way, separated by an average of only 300 light yearOf course most stars are found in galaxies, so there could be a million instances of complex life in the Milky Way, separated by an average of only 300 light yearof complex life in the Milky Way, separated by an average of only 300 light yearof only 300 light years.

Out of about a million stars within some 300 light - years, the expectation is that about 50 of them are siblings.»

We know of only a few stars that have passed within two light - years of the sun in the past million years

[1] Stars with more mass run through their lives much more quickly than lighter ones such as the Sun, which have lives measured in billions, rather than millions, of years.

Thus, at a distance of 700 million light - years — not very far on a cosmic scale — it is barely observable through the background glow of stars in our own galaxy.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

That enabled the astronomers to measure how fast stars orbit the black hole, which lies some 50 million light - years away, in the direction of the constellation Virgo.

The objects are made up of hundreds of millions of stars densely packed together on an average of 100 light years across.

The star got too close to its galaxy's central black hole about 290 million years ago, and collisions among its torn - apart pieces caused an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that was first spotted by scientists in 2014.

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

The first such star they identified is Beta Pictoris, a 23 - million - year - old star in the early stage of building its planets, about 63 light - years away from our 4.6 - billion - year - old solar system.

It was while monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.

Right now it's an ordinary - looking, dim red star 63 light - years off, but it is racing toward us so that in a mere million years it will be just three - quarters of a light - year from the sun — roughly 1,000 times farther out than Pluto but well inside the Oort cloud.

Astronomers using both space - based and ground - based telescopes, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, have analyzed the destruction of the giant star, located in the galaxy NGC 1260 about 240 million light - years away.

Having only existed for about five million years, most of its stars are young and hot and shine with an intense blue light.

To make matters worse, the magnified object is a starbursting dwarf galaxy: a comparatively light galaxy (it has only about 100 million solar masses in the form of stars [3]-RRB-, but extremely young (about 10 - 40 million years old) and producing new stars at an enormous rate.

Visualizations of the simulated distributions of gas and stars in the Universe from data provided by Cosmowebportal: The cube represents a space section of the Universe (more than 300 million light years), the bright spots on the cube faces show galaxies and galaxy clusters along the cosmic web.

Why, after millions of years of steadily lighting the cold darkness, does a supergiant star suddenly explode in a blinding blaze of glory brighter than 100 billion stars?

The researchers mapped thousands of star clusters in the attractive barred spiral galaxy M83 (shown), 15 million light - years from Earth, finding that the percentage of young stars in clusters declines from the urban core to the suburbs: Four thousand light - years from M83's center, 19 % of young stars belong to clusters, whereas 13,000 light - years out, just 7 % do.

Residing in the dwarf galaxy IC 10, 1.8 million light - years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, the new black hole puzzles researchers because it is thought that the kind of star that would give birth to it would not have retained enough mass to produce such a large object.

Although ultraviolet light from stars would break apart water molecules, after hundreds of millions of years an equilibrium could be reached between water formation and destruction.

This resulted in three distinct streams of stars that reach as far as one million light - years from the Milky Way's center.

Astronomers enjoy studying Andromeda in part because of its proximity — at 2.5 million light - years away it is close enough to us that individual stars can be resolved within the galaxy.

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.

Measurements based on exploding stars suggest that distant galaxies are speeding away from each other at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of space between them.

We know of only a few stars that have passed within two light - years of the sun in the past million years (the current closest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light - years away).

Now Alexander Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center may have peered all the way to the most remote objects in the universe: the primordial stars that first lit up a pitch - black cosmos 200 million years after the Big Bang.

Some scientists, proponents of the island universe theory, suggested they were galaxies — distinct clusters of stars — millions of light - years away.

We have learned to pierce the depths of space and see stars and galaxies that lie thousands, and millions, and billions of light - years away.

Located 1,100 light years away in the constellation of Orion, this star system is just two million years old.

NGC 4536 is roughly 50 million light - years away in the constellation of Virgo, it is a hub of extreme star formation (Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA)

This isolated galaxy, 16 million light - years from Earth, contains about 100,000 stars and is 1/25 the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy, which has at least 100,000,000,000 stars.