Sentence examples for pillar of gas from inspiring English sources

This image shows the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.

In this composite image we see the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.

In "Among the Planets," Sobel visits Daniel Goldin, the administrator of NASA, and he shows her the now famous photograph of three "star nurseries" — huge pillars of gas in which new stars are being formed.

Figure 5. Hubble captures view of "Mystic Mountain" -- pillars of gas and dust with jets emanating from the centers of disks around young stars in the Carina Nebula.

Hubble's latest image of the Horsehead Nebula shows it in infrared light where we get to see pillars of gas and dust formed by stellar winds and radiation.

Out of stately pillars of dark gas sparkle the bright lights of newborn stars.

The pictures suggest that the corona's energy may emanate from spectacular pillars of fiery gas near the sun's surface, at the bottoms of looping arches of magnetic fields -- like those produced by a bar magnet, only larger -- that stretch for hundreds of thousands of miles above the surface.

For example, in the NASA version of the Hubble's "Pillars of Creation," showing fingers of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula boiling away to reveal new stars, the "pillars" are brown and the radiation burning them away is green; Mr. Benson has turned it into a composition in shades of red, including burgundy, the actual color of the ionized hydrogen that makes the nebula.

Shell's position is to consider electricity as the fourth pillar of its business alongside oil, gas and chemicals.

As the pressure built up, inadequate welds in a section of pipe ruptured, allowing 47 million cubic feet of gas to escape in a huge pillar of fire.

Jets of gas are also being fired from within the pillar by infant stars.