Sentences with phrase «surrounding dust»

Where other scientists found nothing, Soummer's team discovered five stars (including HD 141943, pictured at top of the page) with surrounding dust disks — the breeding grounds of planets.

In results presented on June 8, 2009 at the 214th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, they reported that many dark GRBs may be obscured by surrounding dust, which may hide entire stellar nurseries (NASA news release; UC Berkeley press release; Rachel Courtland, New Scientist, June 8, 2009; and Keith Cooper, Astronomy Now, June 8, 2009).

He says the brightening of the burst afterglow might be due to radiation from the GRB heating surrounding dust or reflecting off it.

The powerful light from the ELIRGs» cores heated up surrounding dust clouds, which then emitted infrared radiation that WISE detected.

Many optically dark GRBs are located in the local universe but obscured by surrounding dust (more).

Antares and its companion interact with their surrounding dust to produce intriguing radio signals — the target of continued study.

Although they are very bright, these stars can not be seen in visible - light images such as this one as the surrounding dust is too thick, but they make their presence clear in images of the region at longer wavelengths.

This energy heats up the surrounding dust and gas, while their stellar winds dramatically erode and sculpt their birthplace.

Within the rings themselves, Cassini spied tumbling moonlets that sculpted the surrounding dust into towering waves and jagged ridges.

Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a Jupiter - sized planet, perhaps with a surrounding dust disk, orbiting about 115 astronomical units from a nearby main sequence star.

Astronomers are able to identify these types of planet - birthing disks, because the star heats up the surrounding dust, which affects the way it looks using a telescope with an infrared camera.

The incredibly hot stars have strong winds acting as bulldozers to the surrounding dust and gas.

Over time, the surrounding dust particles stick together, growing into sand, pebbles, and larger - size rocks, which eventually settle into a thin protoplanetary disk where asteroids, comets, and planets form.

At last a little friction as Proyas reveals how much he hated the storage container (s) that had to be built for the film (real storage container storage facilities incur too much movement for coherent scenes to be shot from day to day)-- including the problem that wetting down the surrounding dust resulted in swarms of mosquitoes for the rest of the location shoot.