Sentences with phrase «white giant star»
The primary component belongs to the spectral class B0.5 III, which means that it is a blue - white giant star.
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Astronomy is beginning to detect and classify a life of the stars, red, blue and white, giant, middle - sized and dwarf; each type, in its dimensions, particular radiations and brilliance, being subject to a given evolutionary cycle.
The Belgian international has been one of the stars of the 2012/13 Premier League season, but he has struggled this campaign and rumours claim that he is thinking about leaving the White Hart Lane at the end of the season in search of Champions League football and the Italian giants Roma have been alerted.
Being greeted by a giant, shaggy - maned Kate Moss is always a good way to start an exhibition — or enter any room, for that matter — and when this glossy black - and - white wonder is just a drop in David Bailey's star - studded ocean of celebrity portraits, you know it's the place to be.
Ms. James, who often presides over Council meetings seated in a red and white upholstered chair marked with a giant star, has also used the public advocate's office to introduce 48 pieces of legislation, 10 of which are now law.
Right: After a couple hundred million years, the red giant star has burned out and collapsed to the white dwarf that shines intensely in ultraviolet wavelengths.
These icy bodies apparently survived the star's evolution as it became a bloated red giant and then collapsed to a small, dense white dwarf.
But it turns out white dwarfs can breach that tipping point in another situation: Instead of a giant star losing material to a white dwarf, two white dwarfs orbiting each other could slam together and explode.
Using data involving the temperature and brightness of the stars collected by the Hubble Space Telescope, they observed 44 blue stragglers among the cluster's many thousands of red - giant and white - dwarf stars.
Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.
Of the 10 closest star systems to Earth, only one does not contain a low - mass star (the Sirius system consists of a blue giant and an ultra-compact white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun - like star).
In short order, astronomically speaking, the red giant blows off its outer layers and leaves behind a white dwarf — essentially the naked heart of the star — which slowly cools to eternal blackness.
Halo stars die by becoming red giants and then white dwarfs — dense stars little larger than Earth.
According to this model, the violent wind that creates a planetary nebula is also the engine that transforms a bloated red giant into the burnt - out cinder of a white dwarf, a metamorphosis common to all stars of low and intermediate mass — stars up to eight times more massive than the sun.
Type Ia supernovas are known to form when a white dwarf merges with another star, like a puffed - up red giant (as opposed to Type II supernovas, which form when a single star dies and collapses on itself).
The behavior of a star now depends on its mass, with stars below 0.23 solar masses becoming white dwarfs, while stars with up to 10 solar masses pass through a red giant stage.
As Vega is so much bigger and hotter than Sol, however, the star will exhaust its core hydrogen after only another 650 million years or so (for a total life of around a billion years) and turn into a red giant or Cepheid variable before puffing away its outer layers to reveal a remnant core as a white dwarf.
As stars like our sun age, they puff up into red giants and then gradually lose about half or more of their mass, shrinking into skeletons of stars, called white dwarfs.
The stars observed cover almost the entire range of star - types — main sequence, red giants, and white dwarfs.
White dwarfs form as the outer layers of a low - mass red giant star puff out to make a planetary nebula.
It may be only about 225 to 250 million years old (Liebert et al, 2005; and Ken Croswell, 2005), but being so much bigger and hotter than Sol, the star will exhaust its core hydrogen within only a billion years and turn into a red giant or Cepheid variable before puffing away its outer layers to reveal a remnant core as a white dwarf.
These nebulae are formed during the last stages of a star's life when a red giant star casts of its outer layers in a process which leads to the star becoming a white dwarf.
Its mass and diameter are consistent with the theoretical size for a carbon - core white dwarf, one that may have evolved from a 5.05 +0.374 / -0.276 Solar - mass, B - type main - sequence star about 124 + / - 5 million years ago, after 101 to 126 million years as a giant star (Liebert et al, 2005; and Ken Croswell, 2005).
David Aguilar, Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics — larger «day» and «night» images At maximum brightness, Mira would light up a hypothetical planetary companion, but at its most dark, the giant star's small, hot white dwarf companion would become visible (more discussion with illustration).
HD 147513 A is a so - called young «Barium dwarf» (s - process element rich but comparatively carbon deficient) star that was probably enriched by an asymptotic branch giant (AGB) star (see Gacrux) but is now a very dim, white dwarf companion, which has an observed separation of around 4,400 AUs — 5.7» at a HIPPARCOS distance estimate of 42.0 ly (Porto de Mello and da Silva, 1997; and Poveda et al, 1993, pp. 74 - 75).
Luminosity class 0 or Ia + is used for hypergiants, class I for supergiants, class II for bright giants, class III for regular giants, class IV for sub-giants, class V for main - sequence stars, class sd (or VI) for sub-dwarfs, and class D (or VII) for white dwarfs.
Nominal luminosity class VII (and sometimes higher numerals) is now rarely used for white dwarf or «hot sub-dwarf» classes, since the temperature - letters of the main sequence and giant stars no longer apply to white dwarfs.
A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now, when it expands to become a red giant and then sheds most of its outer layers, leaving behind a hot core that contracts to form a dense white dwarf star.
The giants among those stars are presumed to produce this carbon themselves, but some stars in this class are double stars, whose odd atmosphere is suspected of having been transferred from a companion that is now a white dwarf, when the companion was a carbon - star.
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledgling white dwarf stars beginning their slow - paced, 40 - million - year migration from the crowded centre of giant globular cluster 47 Tucanae to the less populated suburbs.
As a highly evolved and relatively cool orange - red giant, single star, Pollux is not much like its «twin» star Castor, which is actually composed of three sets of binary stars (as many as four bluish - white, main sequence stars with two fainter companions).
When this happens, smaller stars expand into what astronomers call red giants, then shrink into faint white dwarfs, according to NASA.
When a star ages and the red giant phase of its life comes to an end, it starts to eject layers of gas from its surface leaving behind a hot and compact white dwarf.
The system is composed of a blue - white giant with the stellar classification of B9III - IV and a visual magnitude of 5.33, a white subgiant belonging to the stellar class A0IVMn with an apparent magnitude of 5.63, and a star with a magnitude of 8.5 separated from the second component by 37.7 arc seconds.
Additional highlights of his previous film credits include HERCULES, CUBAN FURY, JACK AND THE GIANT SLAYER, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, starring in, and co-producing, the motion picture 44 INCH CHEST, Woody Allen's SCOOP, and voice over acting in the highly - acclaimed animated features, CORALINE, SHREK THE THIRD, KUNG FU PANDA, and THE GOLDEN COMPASS.
Robsten Dreams got their hands on these French character posters for the upcoming film «Snow White and the Huntsman» by director Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, On The Road, The Runaways), Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers, Thor, Red Dawn, The Cabin in the Woods), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road, Prometheus), Ian McShane (Jack the Giant Killer, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Sam Claflin, Bob Hoskins (Hook) and Ray Winstone (The Departed).
Universal Pictures released the final official movie poster for the upcoming film «Snow White and the Huntsman» by director Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, On The Road, The Runaways), Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers, Thor, Red Dawn, The Cabin in the Woods), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road, Prometheus), Ian McShane (Jack the Giant Killer, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Sam Claflin, Bob Hoskins (Hook) and Ray Winstone (The Departed).
Disney's July 3 release of «The Lone Ranger,» starring Armie Hammer as the Texas Ranger and Johnny Depp as Tonto, will determine whether the Burbank entertainment giant can ride off into the sunset with a new franchise under its white Stetson.
Universal just released this awesome new movie poster featuring Kristen Stewart as Snow White from the upcoming film «Snow White and the Huntsman» by director Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, On The Road, The Runaways), Chris Hemsworth (The Avengers, Thor, Red Dawn, The Cabin in the Woods), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road, Prometheus), Ian McShane (Jack the Giant Killer, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Sam Claflin, Bob Hoskins (Hook) and Ray Winstone (The Departed).
Just about all of the Marvel superheroes — including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Spider - Man (Tom Holland), Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), White Wolf (Sebastian Stan), Captain America (Chris Evans), Star Lord (Chris Pratt), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Vision (Paul Bettany) and War Machine (Don Cheadle)-- have assembled to thwart the latest threat to Earth, a giant super-villain named Thanos (Josh Brolin).
The other one, White House Down, starred Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, opened at the height of the summer movie season, was rated PG - 13, was the work of director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) and writer James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), had more than twice the budget, and the backing of media giant Sony's primary Columbia Pictures division.
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Through the arch lay 200 meters of no - man's land and then another white arch, glimmering in the distance like a mirage, a yellow star and one word in giant red letters — Vietnam.
Linder features recent and older works, including the Star series (2007), in which the artist imposes giant roses and other lush flowers on naked female torsos, and the Pretty Girl series (1997), a suite of images in which the heads of black - and - white pinups are replaced by home appliances.