... SURVEY (5) MASS EXTINCTIONS AND THE SUN'S ENCOUNTERS WITH SPIRALARMS E.M. Leitch and G. Vasisht, CALTECH (6) LOOKING AT THE K ... 5) MASS EXTINCTIONS AND THE SUN'S ENCOUNTERS WITH SPIRALARMS E.M. Leitch and G. Vasisht: Mass extinctions and the sun's ...
... RANDOM SPACE FACT The average distance between stars in the spiralarms of the Milky Way galaxy is currently estimated to be seven light years, or sixty-six trillion kilometers. ...
... Hubble's gaze also revealed dust lanes, a smaller bar of stars, dust and gas embedded in the stellar ring, and an extra pair of inner spiralarms. ...
... Walterbos said Cepheus 1 is one of the dozen largest nearby spiral galaxies, "and one of only two large Low Surface Brightness spirals that we know of in the nearby universe." ...
... to tour nearby trainers for the Shuttle and station robotic arms; the International Space Station full-scale mockups and ... observations are superimposed on a Hubble picture of the same region, they pick out spiral galaxies experiencing starbursts ...
... pulsar is also blasting the star with powerful beams of radiation expelled as the captured gases spiral onto the neutron star ... The cell weighs 120 metric tons and consists of 100 arms that support the mirror. ...