Sentences with phrase «year long filament»

The researchers used the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia to study a 50 light - year long filament...

Not exact matches

Pope and his colleagues studied filaments of material — some up to 30,000 light years long — trailing in the wake of such bubbles in the Perseus cluster.

Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center forecasts that a narrow, dense filament of material shed by Swift - Tuttle in the year 1479 will trigger an hour - long spike in activity at 4:18 a.m. eastern daylight time on the morning of August 12.

«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.

If so, instead of clumping, the researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science, this warm dark matter would have stretched into filaments thousands of light - years long and weighing as much as millions of suns.

The filaments, several light years long, appear to meet close to the black hole and may indicate where orbits of streams of gas and dust converge.

As this quasar light travels for as long as billions of years through intergalactic space, it passes through filaments of intergalactic gas which absorb certain colors of the light.

Because there is no brittle filament inside a xenon HID bulb to break or burn out, the head lamps typically last up to three times longer than halogen head lamps (3000 hours versus 1000 hours of continuous operation, which is equivalent to 5 to 10 years of normal driving)