Sentences with phrase «stars near the end of their life»
In the 1970s, astronomer Jill Tarter pointed out that the term also referred to a dark, cooling star near the end of its life.
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Polaris is a «Cepheid variable,» a giant star near the end of its life that varies in brightness as it shrinks and swells.
The object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, is a sun - like star nearing the end of its life.
They are shells of gas thrown off by Sun - like stars nearing the ends of their lives.
This oddly shaped object is an aging, Sun - like star near the end of its life.
A second kind happens when a single gigantic star nears the end of its life, and its core can no longer withstand the gravitational forces acting on it.
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These stars have puffed up to several times their normal size because they have exhausted their nuclear fuel and are near the end of their lives.
As relatively small stars (those less than ten times the mass of our sun) near the end of their lives, they throw off their outer layers and become white dwarf stars, which are very dense.
Near the end of its life, a huge star blasts much of its bloated outer atmosphere into space — a torrent of gas equal to Earth's mass each year, racing outward at 10 million kilometers per hour.
Was it a rarely seen flare - up near the end of a giant star's life?
Ordinary stars also blow dust into space when they swell into red giants near the end of their lives.
After hitting this envelope of gas, which was sloughed off by the progenitor red giant star as it neared the end of its life, a portion of this powerful explosion rebounded back towards the centre of the remnant.
A new study led by Keiichi Ohnaka, a researcher at Catholic University of the North in Chile, sought to understand how the distant red supergiant star Antares manages to expel so much matter off its surface as it nears the end of its life and nears its finale as a spectacular supernova.
Two of these visible - light pictures show interstellar gas and dust around young stars at the beginning of their lives, and two more show gas ejected from old stars that are nearing the end of theirs.
The role is one of Binoche's least commanding yet most touching: The character's terrified she's nearing the end of her romantic shelf life, and the star leans into her age (advanced only by Hollywood standards), playing Isabelle's vanity without a whit of her own.
Through a near - accident that put him in the news as a stalker, Owen ends up getting involved in the lives of an future - star actor named Hayden Field (Hallisay) and his hot girlfriend Lisa Mancini (Hilton).
The Happy Prince Rupert Everett directs and stars in this biopic of Oscar Wilde near the end of his life, as controversy, exile, and excess drive him to the brink.
In truth, as a comedy, it's standard sitcom, and the broadly stereotypical characters are far beneath the talent of the stars, but the story does gain a bit of traction in the more dramatic moments in which these men, nearing the end of their lives, realize that they're no longer the spring chickens they used to be.
Red Giant: Toward the end of a star's life, the temperature near the core rises.