Sentences with phrase «such as white dwarfs»

«You can see bulges in distant galaxies, but you can not resolve the very faint stars, such as the white dwarfs.

But some scientists have suggested the fast - moving stars near the cluster centres could instead result from the gravity of many dim, dead stars such as white dwarfs or neutron stars.

Planets orbiting more compact objects, such as white dwarfs, pulsars and black holes, might have even shorter years since they can get closer in.

Specifically, the most energetic iron emission they studied is characteristic of so - called x-ray binary starsduos comprised of a dense stellar object such as a white dwarf star, a neutron star or a black hole that collects matter from a less dense companion, emitting x-rays in the process.

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The GOP will soon be known as the Party of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs with Sarah «Snow White» Palin leading such GOP Dwarfs as Huckabee, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Thune, DeMint, Romney and Ron Paul.

So, too, do astrophysical exotica such as neutron stars and white dwarfs — the remnants left by normal stars when they die.

In addition to sampling cupcakes in flavours such as «red planet» and «white dwarf», visitors tapped their toes to live music and entered a raffle to win bits of meteorite.

We once thought that dark matter might be made up of large objects such as black holes or exotic types of faint stars — neutron stars or white dwarfs — that are nearly invisible to our telescopes.

In strong fields such as those present in the atmospheres of white dwarfs (on the order of 105 teslas) and other stellar objects, our calculations suggest that this mechanism underlies the strong bonding of H2 in the Σ3u + (1σg1σu *) triplet state and of He2 in the Σ1g + (1σg21σu * 2) singlet state, as well as their preferred perpendicular orientation in the external field.

The first hint of the kamikaze asteroids came about 40 years ago, when astronomers discovered heavy elements such as magnesium in the spectra of some white dwarf stars.

In any case, LP40 - 365 is the first known white dwarf to have survived a (failed) Type Ia supernova, and as such it opens up some exciting prospects for future science.

Such «barium stars» may be binaries, where a more massive companion has already thrown off its outer gas envelopes as a planetary nebula in becoming a white dwarf (see HD 147513 AB).

As such, having shed much of its mass during the red giant phase, no white dwarf can exceed 1.4 times the mass of the sun.

The sequence has been expanded with classes for other stars and star - like objects that do not fit in the classical system, such as class D for white dwarfs and classes S and C for carbon stars.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit helped bring animation back to the masses with its huge success paving the way for modern animated films such as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin to be accepted by adult audiences as much as they are by children, just as Walt Disney intended for his animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio.

The Postwar Disney animated features produced during Walt Disney's lifetime are often dismissed and looked upon less favorably than such films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Bambi.

It occurs most often in dwarf breeds, such as the West Highland White Terrier, Cairn Terrier, Tibetan Spaniel, and the Pekingese, but can develop in other breeds as well.

You'll be diving with the big stuff too, such as White Tip Sharks, Hammerheads, Manta Rays, and if the season is right - Humpback Whales and dwarf Minke Whales.

Fear of rejection is a characteristic associated with this archetype and it is frequently explored in fairy tales such as in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — the story of a princess rejected by her family who is thrown into a journey of survival, both literally and metaphorically.