Sentences with phrase «vast clouds»

The truth is out there, but is hidden in vast clouds of electronically stored information.

Perhaps they were born «obese», forming when vast clouds of atomic hydrogen collapsed.

Once quarks finished clumping together as protons and neutrons, it was only a matter of time — and gravity — before the first simple atoms gathered in vast clouds to form stars and galaxies, which eventually begot us.

When they turned X-ray telescopes, such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, toward these clusters, they did indeed find vast clouds of superheated gas.

Vast clouds billow out from supernovae, the explosive deaths of giant stars that have consumed all their nuclear fuel.

As Fortney explained, brown dwarfs are formed in the same vast clouds that produce stars by the hundreds, but don't have sufficient mass to build the internal pressure needed to begin the nuclear fusion of hydrogen that defines a star.

When stars or vast clouds of gas fall into such massive objects, the resulting X-ray blaze can be seen across the universe.

And we have a lot of relationships there: partly friendships, like with [Alibaba founder] Jack Ma, but also with Edward Tian, who's starting a vast cloud operation in Beijing.

It explains how the earth formed four billion years ago out of a vast cloud of gas and dust.

His mother's hand on his slender right shoulder, 10 - year - old Criostoir Burns stared at the vast cloud of smoke across the Hudson River and then looked down at the collection of handwritten notes, spent candles and small photos that nestled in a pile at a makeshift memorial at Sinatra Park in Hoboken, N.J..

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high - energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time.

Vast clouds of star - forming gas and dust burst into view in this image of the constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus, taken by the Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite, or WISE.

Argon and neon are noble gases that have been around since our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, from a vast cloud of gas and dust.

The different pillars analysed by an international team seem to be pillars of destruction — in contrast to the name of the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, which are of similar nature.The spires and pillars in the new images of the Carina Nebula are vast clouds of dust and gas within a hub of star formation about 7500 light - years away.

Orbiting within the Kuiper Belt, a vast cloud of icy debris left over from the solar system's formation, the oddball is estimated to be 600 kilometers long but just 360 kilometers wide, making it one of the largest elongated bodies ever detected.

The standard model of cosmology now assumes that a galaxy forms within a vast cloud or halo of dark matter.

Every night The Orion nebula, a vast cloud of gas and newborn stars, is prominent in the south a couple of hours after sunset.

It took more than five years for Purcell to get enough observing time to complete the map, but when he finally pieced it together, he found a vast cloud of antimatter that seems to hover over the galactic north pole.

Unlike the Solar System where most of the gravitational pull comes from the Sun and is simple to model, it is much harder to describe the gravitational field near the centre of the Galaxy, where millions of stars, vast clouds of dust, and even dark matter swirl about.

In a brief 10,000 years or so the core, now left in the middle of a vast cloud of dust and gas, finally begins to cool and fade.

Current theory states that baby stars hatch by the bushel in stellar nurseries, vast clouds of dust and gas that congeal into stars.

Four and a half billion years ago, the place we now call the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust enshrouding a newborn star.

Aerosols are already known to reduce global warming: The vast clouds of sulfates thrown up in the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, for example, reduced average global temperatures by about half a degree Celsius.

What is preventing the vast clouds from collapsing under their own weight?

Inside a vast cloud of dust and gas that is known as one of the Milky Way galaxy's premier star - hatcheries, the team found a zone emitting strong radio waves with the chemical signature of silicon monoxide gas, a strong indicator that the starmaking process is at work.

Astronomers have long suspected that our solar system coalesced from a vast cloud of gas and dust.

In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.

On the outskirts of the solar system swarms a vast cloud of comets, influenced almost as much by other stars as by our sun.

As the white dwarf is consumed in a runaway reaction, it explodes, expelling its remains in a vast cloud — a nebula.

We now know that comets begin in the Oort Cloud, which is a vast cloud of ice and dust objects at the outer edge of our solar system.

The millimeter and sub-millimeter radiation that ALMA will study is able to penetrate the vast clouds of dust and gas that populate interstellar and intergalactic space, revealing previously hidden details about astronomical objects.

Cosmic dust and vast clouds of gas fill galaxies, too, along with the planets and other matter that may orbit stars.

Cinematographer Bradford Young, who lights most of the film's interiors in rich ambers, recalls the terrifying confusion of that imagery in a later scene of marchers fleeing through a vast cloud of tear gas.

A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.6 billion years ago.

In the room's air currents, individual elements drifted slowly and silently in almost imperceptible movements, small vessels within the vast cloud formation.

John Martin's apocalyptic view of Vesuvius smothering Pompeii in a vast cloud of volcanic...

If that finding stood the test of time, it would indeed be momentous; the vast clouds of tiny photosynthesizing organisms in the seas are an important part of the carbon cycle and underpin the marine food chain.

The problem in the 1980s was that American power plants were sending up vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, which was falling back to earth in the form of acid rain, damaging lakes, forests and buildings across eastern Canada and the United States.

The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say.

This was particularly noticeable after Christmas, so my guess is Amazon had some growing pains integrating all those Echo devices into their vast cloud brain.