Sentences with phrase «young stars indicates»

According to astronomer and team leader William Keel of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, the presence of these young stars indicates that jets of fast - moving particles — which are ejected by quasars — bombarded the gas cloud.

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Large groups of young blue stars indicate the locations of star clusters and star - forming regions.

Within the arms, speckles of bright blue mark the locations of young stars, indicating that NGC 4388 has hosted recent bursts of star formation.

In fact, Gilliland suggests that about half the stars in the Kepler field are younger than the Sun, even though theoretical predictions had indicated that about two - thirds would be older.

They point out that the few stars that are found in LSBs are mostly hot and blue, indicating that they are young and suggesting that these dim galaxies were probably even dimmer in the past and are just now getting around to forming stars.

Recent surveys of young star clusters indicate that relatively small objects — less than 13 times Jupiter's size, for instance — are common.

Age can be determined by color, NASA notes, with the red color of NGC 2937's indicating older stars while the bright blue stars of NGC 2936 indicate young stars.

Ross 154, however, shows a high rate of rotation — 3.5 ± 1.5 km / s — that indicates a younger star, perhaps one less than a billion years old.

The significant radial velocity trend coupled with the imaging data indicate that the most probable orbit has a semimajor axis of about 50 AU.The discrepancy between the age indicators suggested against a bona - fide young star.

We speculate that this truncation of the outer disk may be the signpost of a developing gap due to the effects of a growing protoplanet; the gap is still presumably evolving because material still resides in it, as indicated by the silicate emission, the molecular hydrogen emission, and by the continued accretion onto the central star (albeit at a much lower rate than typical of younger T Tauri stars).

First radio observations indicate that OTS44 has formed in the same way as a young star.

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.