Sentences with phrase «which types of stars»

Its ability to detect planets on the other side of the galaxy has revamped our understanding of how solar systems form, which types of stars tend to pair with which types of planets, and shed light on the early dynamics of solar system formation.

Not exact matches

This summary of the first two books of The Star of Redemption explains why it is not precisely wrong for Pollock to say that Rosenzweig has written a philosophical system in which he has demonstrated a particular type of All or totality.

Getting more hits, and concert tours, often did depend on the celebrity - friendly - manners and publicity - work that labels like Motown emphasized, but still, pop - music celebrity always remained somewhat different from the image - drenched Hollywood method of star - creation, which especially in the early days tended to be far more about the star's type - cast and sex - appeal possibilities than acting talents.

I roast two to three different types of potatoes which provide a depth of flavor, making the potatoes the star of the salad instead of the pickles.

For instance: giving up a disproportionate number of corner threes (which tend to be role player - ish shots) while allowing the fewest total P&R ball - handler points in the league (which tend to be star - type shots).

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

He's on contract through 2014, can (presumably) still play at an All - Star level and is an unselfish big men, which is the type of player that tends to fit in well on a new team, as we've seen before from Gasol the first time he was traded.

Mr. Altschuler is drawing from his personal fortune in the belief that a favorable alignment of the political stars — the perceived anti-incumbent sentiment and Tea Party - type anger at the Obama health care and stimulus packages, both of which Mr. Bishop supported — will secure him a coveted seat in Congress.

The find, which was announced in Nature, is the brightest pulsar — a type of rotating neutron star that emits a bright beam of energy that regularly sweeps past Earth like a lighthouse beam — ever seen.

«The fact that this supernova event didn't expel the other star, which is 20 to 25 times the mass of our sun, makes this an incredibly rare type of binary system.»

Our study suggests that, at least for this type of stars, the evolution of the binary central object has caused the expulsion of a component of gas which is different from the main component.»

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

STELLAR RICHES Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii (shown) found 12 new stars with too much lithium, one of which has the largest lithium abundance yet seen for its star type.

Two teams, led by Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California and Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley, observed scores of distant «Type Ia» supernovae, in which one star in a binary pair explodes.

All type 1a evolve from a type of star called a white dwarf, but pinning down exactly which white dwarfs are supernova precursors could lead to much more precise measurements of dark energy — and even reveal its true nature.

At first glance this exploding star had all the features of a type Ia supernova, which happens when a small, dense white dwarf star steals material from an orbiting companion and then explodes.

Material in the nebula, which lies about 700 light - years from Earth, was shed from a sun - type star (blue dot denoted with arrow) during the final stages of its life.

The host star of the latest exoplanet, HATS - 6, is classed as an M - dwarf, which is one of the most numerous types of stars in galaxy.

Galaxies are divided into two types: elliptical galaxies that have many stars, but little dust and gas; and spiral galaxies like our own, the Milky Way, which contain lots of dust and gas.

Todd Thompson at Ohio State University in Columbus and his colleagues argue that UHECRs may instead originate in the merger of two types of dead star, which gives birth to a black hole.

At the same time, Vespa factors in the projected distribution and frequency of star types in the galaxy from which the signal originated to determine the chances that a planet with the characteristics being analyzed would exist.

For every type of star in the simulation, Forgan and his colleagues estimated the probability that terrestrial planets would form, some of which might be Earth — like or might be as inhospitable as Mercury.

Neither study searched for the stars responsible for so - called type Ia supernovae, which are explosions of white dwarf stars that have grown overweight by feasting on material from a companion star.

His firm, Quantametrics, developed technology for high - powered space lasers, working for clients like the «Star Wars» missile defense program and NASA, which relies on lasers for certain types of astronomical observations.

The central construct of the piece is the decagram, a type of 10 - pointed star, which Persian artists have incorporated into their art for centuries because of its geometric properties.

The giant star, named π1Gruis, is one of the stars in the constellation Grus (Latin for the crane, a type of bird), which can be observed in the southern hemisphere.

To intercept such signals we must guess or deduce the frequency at which the signal is being sent, the width of the frequency band, the type of modulation and the star transmitting the message.

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 main types of false positives are then EBs that are observed directly («undiluted binaries»), and EBs whose light is diluted by a nearby third star, which might be physically related to the system (triple star system) or be unrelated, with a third star being close to the line of sight to the binary system.

«We can discover and classify new types of stars without the need for spectra, which are expensive and time - consuming to obtain,» said Miller.

Astrophysicists can trace both the sun's past and future based on their understanding of stellar evolution, which comes from observing stars of many types and at different stages of life.

Keep in mind that extremely energetic stars (those of types O through A) will blast their planets with high doses of ultraviolet radiation, which is detrimental to the evolution of life.

The agency presented the discovery of the first planet roughly the size of Earth orbiting a G2 - type star, which is similar to our sun.

We highlight new PCs that are both potentially rocky and potentially in the habitable zone of their host stars, many of which orbit solar - type stars.

As a subgiant star subject to pulsations which affect careful measurements of variations in radial velocity caused by the gravitational pull of substellar companions, astronomers would find it very difficult to detect any Earth - type planet around Beta Hydri using present methods.

Abstract: We present optical and near - infrared adaptive optics (AO) imaging and spectroscopy of 13 ultracool (> M6) companions to late - type stars (K7 - M 4.5), most of which have recently been identified as candidate members of nearby young moving groups (YMGs; 8 - 120 Myr) in the literature.

WASP - 33 is an A-type star with a temperature of ~ 7430K, which hosts the hottest known transiting planet; the planet is itself as hot as a red dwarf star of type M.

The inferred masses of the companions (~ 10 - 100 Mjup) are highly sensitive to the ages of the primary stars so we criticall... ▽ More We present optical and near - infrared adaptive optics (AO) imaging and spectroscopy of 13 ultracool (> M6) companions to late - type stars (K7 - M 4.5), most of which have recently been identified as candidate members of nearby young moving groups (YMGs; 8 - 120 Myr) in the literature.

Kepler's findings will support two planned missions — the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)-- by determining which types of nearby stars are likely to possess planets.

Type Ib and Ic supernovae result from the collapse of a massive star's core whose outer hydrogen layers have been transfered to a companion star or blown off from strong winds which is why they do not show hydrogen emission lines.

While it's known that Type 1a supernovae form from collapsing white dwarfs — the densest forms of matter after black holes and neutron stars — their formation theories come in two flavors: the single degenerate scenario in which a normal star is consumed by a white dwarf; and the double degenerate scenario in which two white dwarfs merge.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

Most of these have been found to precede large Type - II supernovas of massive stars (sometimes called «hypernova») in star - forming regions within distant galaxies, which is logical since massive stars live such short lives that they don't have time to move far from their birthplace.

As a subgiant star subject to pulsations which affect careful measurements of radial velocity, astronomers would find it very difficult to detect any Earth - type planet arond this star using present methods.

The driving force behind star formation is particularly unclear for a type of galaxy called a flocculent spiral, such as NGC 2841 shown here, which features short spiral arms rather than prominent and well - defined galactic limbs (Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (STScI) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee.)

This companion object appears to have about four - tenths of Sol's mass according to Heintz (1996), which would correspond with a star around spectral type M3 (Mason et al, 1995).

The envelopes have emission measures an order of magnitude greater than that of the warm ionized gas, and are just a few parsecs away from the central stars, which have type O5 or earlier.

«About four percent of solar - type stars are in quadruple systems, which is up from previous estimates because observational techniques are steadily improving,» said co-author Andrei Tokovinin of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

G - type stars, including the Sun [11] have prominent spectral lines H and K of Ca II, which are most pronounced at G2.

Another subset of cool carbon stars are the C - J type stars, which are characterized by the strong presence of molecules of 13CN in addition to those of 12CN.