Sentences with phrase «younger nearby star»

They survey will observe 600 young nearby stars in 890 hours over three years.

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Radiation from young stars is known to cause nearby gas clouds to glow in a particular way.
These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars.
Larger Bok globules in quieter locations often collapse to form new stars but the ones in this picture are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars.
These opaque blobs resemble drops of ink floating in a strawberry cocktail, their whimsical shapes sculpted by powerful radiation coming from the nearby brilliant young stars.
Dusty Beta Pictoris is the most visible member of a newly identified group of nearby young stars.
At least one source of these bright, brief blasts of radio energy may be a young neutron star assisted by a nearby massive black hole, new research suggests.
What they've found figures to refine the search for nearby worlds and solidify theories about how young stars evolve.
Black holes are monsters that supposedly consume everything that comes close to them, yet the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars nearby.
He decided to point Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, an addition made to the scope in 2009, at four nearby aging galaxies to hunt for the telltale ultraviolet glow of young stars.
Using its latest camera, Hubble shows a wider and sharper view of the Eagle Nebula's «Pillars of Creation,» immense columns of cold gas bathed in the ultraviolet light of nearby massive young stars.
Reddish nebulae reveal regions of active star formation, where young, hot stars heat up nearby gas clouds.
The Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey included the star cluster NGC 1333, 1000 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.
Astronomers found signs of a growing planet around TW Hydra, a nearby young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Marois and his team used ground - based infrared detection to seek out exoplanets around nearby, young, massive stars — those whose planets would have wide orbits and emit significant amounts of radiation as they cool from their relatively recent births millions of years ago.
The VISION survey allows the earliest evolutionary phases of young stars within nearby molecular clouds to be systematically studied.
Reconstructing the object's motion, my research suggests it probably came from the nearby «Pleiades moving group» of young stars, also known as the «Local Association.»
It is the first planet detected by the Gemini Planet Imager, or GPI, which was designed to discover and analyze faint, young planets orbiting bright, nearby stars.
Gillian Wilson, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, added, «Fascinatingly, however, the study found that the percentage of galaxies which had stopped forming stars in those young, distant clusters, was much lower than the percentage found in much older, nearby clusters.
This estimate takes into account the fact that the ultraviolet irradiance of the Sun was considerably larger in the distant past, as confirmed by astronomical measurements of younger Sun - like stars in the nearby galaxy.
The Pan-STARRS1 Proper - motion Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star - forming Regions.
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.
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.
A nearby star system appears to be forming planets, and one of these may resemble a young Earth.
The young, nearby star AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is an ideal candidate to get a snapshot of planet birthing because the disk is tilted nearly edge on to our view from Earth.
A nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic stars.
In any case, any developing carbon - based life on a developing Earth - type planet would be subject to tremendous heat on a newly formed planet that is under intense asteroidal and cometary bombardment, in addition to the intense and deadly radiation produced by nearby supernovae and other massive young stars.
Subdwarfs, such as nearby Kapteyn's Star (M0VI or M0sd) as well as Groombridge 1830, are dimmer more bluish than younger main - sequence dwarf stars (Wing et al, 1976).
The youngest stars in the galactic region surrounding around the Solar Neighborhood are associated with «subgroup B1» of the Pleiades (M 45) stellar moving group, and astronomers hypothesize that the more massive stars born in this group may have already exploded as 20 or so supernovae over the past 10 to 20 million years as the entire group of stars moved through a nearby region of the Local Bubble (Berghoefer and Breitschwerdt, 2002).
Phillie's guests at the moment include Michael (Kevin Pollak), a sleazy director and producer of porn videos who is attempting to persuade Loretta (Caroline Dhavernas), a pretty young waitress at a nearby diner, to star in his latest series of adult movies; Denise (Anna Friel) and R.J. (Kristen Holden - Reid), a drug - addled couple struggling to regain custody of their child; Henry (Peter Keleghan) and Lily (Wendy Crewson), whose marriage is already starting to crumble before temptation presents itself to Lily; and Boris (Damir Andrei), the Niagara's short - tempered owner.
The Hundred Foot Journey Director: Lasse Hallström Starring: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon Synopsis: The Kadam family clashes with Madame Mallory, proprietress of a celebrated French restaurant, after they open their own nearby eatery, until undeniable chemistry causes the Madame to take gifted young chef Hassan under her wing.
The Rubell Family collection nearby was proposing an all female program: and although mostly composed of market stars and safe figures, (with remarkable works by Solange Pessoa, Mai - Thu Perret, Analia Saban, Katherine Bernhardt, Marianne Vitale, Miriam Kahn and Natalie Czech, among others) the show had the merit to wittingly posit itself as the almost exact opposite of the De la Cruz collection's show, with it's traditional litany of hot, young and mid career male «geniuses», from Aaron Curi to Rob Pruitt to Dan Colen or the legendary duo Guiton / Walker (zombie - formalist allergics please avoid.)
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