Sentences with phrase «tens of light years»

The filaments are huge, stretching for tens of light years through space and Herschel has shown that newly - born stars are often found in the densest parts of them.

Not exact matches

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

Heaven is that planet 35000 light - years from earth, ten times as big made of hydrogen and oxygen for water, gold as atmosphere (yes we're taking the gold) But to desist as soul when given the chance in hell if you truly believe seems impassible for me to fathom.

Bass makes light of the reunion, saying «It's so nice to see because when we ended things [over] ten years ago, there was no social media, there was no Twitter [fan base], but it's so cute to see how many people are supporting [us] and NSYNC was even trending.»

And if you take a single protein such as t.itin, assembling the components randomly even tens of thousands of times per second and discarding each incorrect version would, in that time, completely fill the universe with the debris — a sphere of 14bn light years diameter, because you have a number so inconceivably vast it would have more than 29,000 zeroes (compared to a number with only 17 zeros for all the seconds so far since the universe began).

Black is the original or «normal» skin color for humans — lighter skin colors evolved in the last few tens of thousands of years as populations adapted to higher latitudes.

This little gadget can make a Wyatt Earp out of an aged grandmother or a ten - year - old, for it sends a very narrow, concentrated beam of red light to the target.

Hansen's assessment is simple: we need, as a planet, to be emitting less carbon dioxide inside of ten years — an enormous task given that China and India are finally beginning to use power in appreciable quantities (and not for luxuries but for the second light bulb or first refrigerator in a house).

For another, Gavitt is a shrewd and calculating TV negotiator, light - years ahead of his peers in, say, the Big Ten or SEC.

But speaking personally, I feel we have already had about ten years to get used to that awful change from light into gloom and we should waste no more of our own lives uselessly hoping the man will ever change.

These charges were made about one year after the Metropolitan Police Service reopened its dormant investigation into phone hacking, [259] about three years after the then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that «no additional evidence has come to light,» [56] five years after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single «rogue reporter,» [260] ten years after The Guardian began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal acquisition of confidential information, [261] and 13 years after the Met began accumulating «boxloads» of that evidence but kept it unexamined in bin bags at Scotland Yard.

It took about ten years to get this light and hopefully it won't take that long for the community to become part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

A ring of hot spots (in images from the Hubble Space Telescope) gradually lit up as a shock wave from supernova 1987A plowed through a loop of gas that had been expelled by the star tens of thousands of years before the explosion.

But Shostak thinks we already might have attracted somebody's attention: «The kind of equipment that we have today is within four orders of magnitude of being able to detect radars on nearby worlds, within a few tens of light - years.

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.

At first the galaxies sideswipe each other, their gravitational fields tearing off streamers of stars and nebulae tens of thousands of light - years long.

Ten thousand light years away, the burned - out core of a dead star quietly circles a sun - like companion.

Since Voorwerp is 65,000 light years across on its longer axis, the cloud could hold a record of tens of thousands of years of history, potentially allowing astronomers to discern how the quasar died.

Because of the distance between the two objects, any light that left the quasar would take tens of thousands of years to reach and energise Voorwerp.

Those stellar explosions can have lethal effects on planets orbiting stars even tens of light - years away.

JELLYFISH galaxies are dead ringers for their aquatic namesakes, with blob - like bodies and star - studded tentacles that can be tens of thousands of light years long.

Newly discovered lobes stretch tens of thousands of light - years above and below the Milky Way's disk.

«This newly discovered gas cloud is shaped like a very long filament, about 200 light years in extent and ten light years across, with a mass about 50,000 times that of our sun,» says team leader, Professor Michael Burton, an astronomer at UNSW Australia.

But NGC 4696 has sprouted something never seen on another galaxy: a huge swirl of dust that stretches for tens of thousands of light - years and whips back around like a question mark.

But because the black holes are hidden at the centers of galaxies tens of millions to billions of light - years away and give off no light of their own, they have not been easy to study directly.

A group of astrophysicists has located two massive bubbles of plasma, each extending tens of thousands of light - years, emitting high - energy radiation above and below the plane of the galaxy.

Each stretches tens of light - years across and three are associated with nearby supernova remnants.

That might sound a little counter-intuitive because lasers are very narrow when they are first emitted, but if that light travels across many light - years that beam widens significantly, and so the beam width can be on the order of tens of millions of kilometers across or more, and so any planet lying within that beam would be unable to see our transit.»

Vennes says it is probably a remnant from just such a supernova that occurred 5 to 50 million years ago, tens of thousands of light years away (Science, doi.org/cbxz).

The universe is four - dimensional — three for space, one for time.The universe has nine, or ten or eleven dimensions.Matter curves spacetime.The universe is flat.The universe is infinite.The universe is 84 billion light - years wide.The universe is a bubble, or an onion.Or a hall of mirrors, shaped like soccer ball.Or a shape out of Dante's Divine Comedy.

These progenitors of today's giant spiral galaxies are surrounded by «super halos» of hydrogen gas that extend many tens - of - thousands of light - years beyond their dusty, star - filled disks.

Given that light from IC 2497 takes tens of thousands of years to reach the Voorwerp, astronomers speculate that the quasar must have turned off less than 200,000 years ago.

The ghostly green structures are so far outside the galaxy that they may not light up until tens of thousands of years after the quasar outburst, and would likewise fade only tens of thousands of years after the quasar itself does.

The investigation further found that penalties for these practices were relatively light, and that many of the firms that run these facilities were awarded tens of millions of dollars in profits in the same years that major safety lapses occurred.

But with our most powerful technology, she says, we could theoretically pack all the internet's contents into a message sent tens of thousands of light - years away through a laser beam — which means another civilization could do the same

The team employed a new technique they developed, which allows them to measure precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light years away.

A typical galaxy shines with the energy from billions of stars and is tens of thousands of light years (or more) across.

It consists of tens of thousands of galaxies lined up in a wall - like structure, stretching across half a billion light - years of space.

Following in Kepler's footsteps by detecting exoplanets through transits, TESS will have the advantage of observing stars that will be, on average, ten times closer than the stars Kepler observed, at distances of a few hundred light years at most.

One of the goals of ALMA is to capture radiation from very distant galaxies: they were among the first to form in the history of the Universe, and we see the light that they emitted over ten billion years ago.

Stars are sometimes concentrated into tight clusters with a diameter of about ten or twenty light years because the stars all formed in the same nebula.

The HDST's unexcelled sharpness at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths would allow astronomers to see the stellar and nebulous contents of galaxies billions of light - years away with the same crispness that Hubble sees inside galaxies just tens of millions of light - years away.

Streaming cosmic tentacles of gas, dust, and stars extending for tens of thousands of light - years are helping to explain how black holes acquire matter.

The plasma science frontier is often, but not limited to, the extremes of the plasma state, ranging from the very small (several atom systems) to the extremely large (plasma structure spanning light years in length), from the very fast (attosecond processes) to the very slow (hours), from the diffuse (interstellar medium) to the extremely dense (diamond compressed to tens of gigabar pressures), and from the ultracold (tens of micro kelvin) to the extremely hot (stellar core).

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

Because of their distance from the host galaxy, the ghostly green structures might have taken tens of thousands of years to light up after the quasar outburst, and would likely fade tens of thousands of years after the quasar itself comes to an end, according to astronomers.

These mysterious strictures — tens of thousands of light - years old — did not emerge from the quasar's black hole, but are slowly orbiting their host galaxy, long after the merger was completed.

Globular clusters orbit the Milky Way galaxy outside the galactic disk at tens of thousands of light - years away.

Most globulars reside tens of thousands of light - years away.

In spite of doing regular exercise (weight training & light cardio), I have had frequent cramping in legs and hands for the last ten years.