Sentences with phrase «stars nearest the center»

SIM will also measure the motions of stars near the center of many galaxies, which should tell us whether they harbor enormous black holes at their core.
Over the next several years, new infrared measurements showed that much of the gas and clouds and even entire stars nearest the center weren't simply rotating with the rest of the galaxy.
Most stars near the center manage to stay out of the clutches of the hole, though, simply by virtue of being in ultrafast orbits around it.
By measuring the rapid orbits of the stars near the center of our galaxy, Dr. Ghez and her colleagues have moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way from a possibility to a certainty.
A giant star near the center of our galaxy hints, once again, that Albert Einstein was correct about gravity.

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Fort Worth police have released some of the details of a drug investigation centering on an apartment building near the campus of Texas Christian University, the Fort Worth Star - Telegram reported Wednesday.The operation resulted in the arrests of 23 people, as well as the seizure of nine weapons (five rifles, three shotguns and a set of brass knuckles), 2.7 pounds of marijuana and around $ 46,000 in cash.
Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.
A near - twin of our Milky Way, Andromeda contains at least 100 billion stars in a flattened disk of spiral arms, calmly orbiting a round bulge of stars in the center.
«Finding the organohalogen Freon - 40 near these young, Sun - like stars was surprising,» said Edith Fayolle, a researcher with the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA, and lead author of the new paper.
A star ripped to shreds by a massive black hole may explain a strange feature near the center of our galaxy.
Stars can grow no bigger than 150 times as massive as our sun, according to a study of the dazzling «Arches» cluster near the center of our galaxy — shown here in an artist's impression.
This unusually compact cloud of dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius is energized by a hot young star at its core, and it's a veritable alphabet soup of molecules.
Ghez says other stars with infrared excesses exist near the galactic center.
And yet stars can be observed forming furiously in at least a dozen different major clouds near the center.
In addition, near the galaxy cluster center, intergalactic gas is so hot it can not cool to condense and form stars.
For this to occur, outside forces would have to compress the gas clouds near the center of our galaxy to overcome the violent nature of the region and allow gravity to take over and form stars.
The computers merge the data to produce a high - resolution picture of a 10 - degree patch of sky centered near the North Star.
ALMA discovers remarkably early signs of low - mass star formation near the supermassive black hole at the center the Milky Way.
Ghez used this cutting - edge system to track the orbits of stars near the supermassive black hole located at the center of the Milky Way.
Those stars got their higher velocities before space was stretched out — when they were nearer the center of their galaxy, where the galaxy's gravity was much more powerful.
Before the heavens were stretched out, those stars had high velocities, because they were near a galaxy's center of mass where a black hole was growing.
«We found the clumps of CO gas far from the galaxy's center, and not near the regions of current star formation,» Walter said.
One possible cause for the outflows is a star - making frenzy near the galactic center that produces supernovas, which blow out gas.
So are planets located near the center of the Galaxy, where stars are more carbon - rich than the sun, on average.
An intensive study of a neighboring dwarf galaxy has surprised astronomers by showing that most of its molecular gas — the raw material for new stars — is scattered among clumps in the galaxy's outskirts, not near its center as they expected.
The star lies near the center (19:25:9.6 - 66:28:7.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Pavo, the Peacock — slight southeast of Delta Pavonis, west of Beta Pavonis, southwest of Peacock (Alpha Pavonis), and northeast of Epsilon Pavonis.
For the transit method to work, a planet must pass almost perfectly along our line of sight, the chances of which are around 0.5 percent for an Earth - sized planet (in an Earth - sized orbit) and 10 percent for a Jupiter - sized planet (if it orbits near its star)[source: Ames Research Center, FAQ].
All galaxies, including our own, are believed to be embedded in and surrounded with halos of dark matter, which is what astronomers posit causes stars far from the galactic center to move as fast as those near the center.
The orbital distance from Stars A and B where an Earth - type planet currently would be «comfortable» with liquid water is centered near 1.8 AU — between the orbital distances of Mars and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System.
They are illuminated and heated by a torrent of energetic ultraviolet light from its four hottest and most massive stars, called the Trapezium, which lie near the center of the image.
What remains near the center of the gigantic explosion is a dense star, about 10 miles in diameter, composed of neutrons — a neutron star.
A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic observed three stars in a cluster near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
«In fact, given our current understanding of how stars form and the properties of the galactic center, it's [stellar evolution near the galactic center is] not allowed to happen.»
The position of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, as well as the giant star S2, are shown (inset) in this near - infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
It is illuminated and heated by four massive stars known as the Trapezium, which lie near the center of the image.
Using a device called a coronagraph that blocks out a star's light so dimmer objects near it can be seen, the Hubble revealed that Fomalhaut was indeed off - center within its ring.
These regions, called cosmic masers, are found in areas where new stars are forming and near the centers of galaxies.
A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures / Fox 2000 Pictures» Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
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