Sentences with phrase «as a star circles»

As a star circles a galaxy, the force of gravity accelerates it toward the center.

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It seems as though we circle the star.

Carney is seen as something of a rock star in international financial circles.

Luther likened Christ to the «star and kernel» of Scripture, describing him as «the center part of the circle» about which everything else revolves.

«A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single - minded trek toward that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky's stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles.

Danielle Dimovski, known in barbeque circles as Diva Q, is a bright star of «Que from the frozen white north.

Lazio star Felipe Anderson was one of the revelations of the 2014 - 15 Serie A season, but with sides such as Manchester United circling, his club have announced that he will cost $ 100 million (approximately # 72 million) if any club is to sign him this summer.

Two things appear to be threatening the Catalan giants as Paris Saint - Germain circle, with the Ligue 1 champions not only able to meet any financial demands, but also the fact that they are willing to make the Brazilian their number one star.

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The sharks are circling Arsenal, as not just Sanchez but other attacking stars Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud head towards potential Gunners exits.

Use symbols to indicate activities (such as a swirl to show that they are supposed to turn in circles, or stars to indicate that they should reach for the stars).

Still, Slaughter is probably going to need every dime in facing Brooks, a thrice - elected county executive who is viewed as a rising star in Republican circles.

«He is a nice enough guy, but has never been viewed as a rising star in even Hudson Valley circles, let alone NYS.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, widely viewed as a rising star in Republican circles, cut an advertisement for his slate of candidates who back his fiscal agenda.

«Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon is the latest prominent (at least in some circles) New Yorker to appear in a video pushing Row E (AKA the Working Families Party) as part of the labor - backed party's effort to attract 50,000 votes in the governor's race and retain its official ballot status.

Astorino is viewed as a rising star in Republican circles and is considered a possible challenger to Cuomo's 2014 re-election bid.

Ms. Malliotakis won't necessarily be an easy target as she is one of the most prodigious fundraisers in the entire New York State Assembly and considered a rising star in some Republican circles.

In Tory MP circles, Victoria Atkins is widely seen as a rising star and a cabinet minister of the future.

These planets are alternately squeezed and stretched as they circle their stars, resulting in «tidal heating» that warms the gas inside the planet.

Using 80 hours of observing time on NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, a team led by Brice - Olivier Demory of the University of Cambridge has crudely mapped the planet's thermal «phase curve» — variations in its brightness as it circles its star.

At the Milky Way's heart, stars circle a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, which contains about 3.7 million times as much mass as our sun.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

But if pushed to the limit, it just might be able to provide the first indication of life — a telltale molecule, such as oxygen, in the planet's atmosphere — on a super-Earth circling another star.

Overall, supernovas are rare, but as the solar system circles through the Milky Way, it sometimes passes through one of our galaxy's spiral arms, where large numbers of massive stars form and explode as supernovas.

The only truly Earth - like planet we know of — ours — takes more than 150 times as long as HAT - P - 7 b does to circle its star, so collecting data on similar planets across multiple orbits will take years.

Something strange is a-brewing on upsilon Andromedae b. Astronomers have classified the exoplanet, orbiting a sun - like star about 44 light - years away, as a hot Jupiter — a gas giant circling so close to its parent sun that its atmosphere is boiling away.

This allows it to place two or more stars in its sight at once — both the star it is analyzing as the target planet circles around, and other control stars.

After charting stars in the heart of our galaxy traveling at speeds up to 50 times faster than Earth circles the sun, scientists are convinced that a supermassive black hole is pulling the strings, as only the relentless grip of a supermassive black hole could keep these frenzied stars locked into orbit within the galactic center.

Stars indicate quasars and bright (faint) galaxies at the same epoch are shown as circles (dots).

The giveaway that the faint star had a planet circling it was a dip in its brightness caused as the planet passed in front of the star, observed by small robotic telescopes including telescopes at the ANU Siding Spring Observatory.

Marcy and Butler recently posted a notice on their Web site of the discovery of a somewhat similar planet circling the star HR3522, also known as 55 Rho Cancri.

These discoveries might help explain some of the strange globes circling other stars that astronomers have located over the past decade, such as some super-size «hot Jupiters» that are unexpectedly close to their suns.

Graney suggested in 2008 that Galileo's observations of stars were actually diffraction patterns called Airy disks — patterns of concentric circles that arise when light from a point source, such as a star, passes through a hole.

«We determined the weather on these alien worlds by measuring changes as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day - night cycle,» said Lisa Esteves, a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and lead author of the study published today in The Astrophysical Journal.

He and his colleagues have conducted long - term studies of the dust disks around old stars and the changes in aged red giants such as Betelgeuse, and are preparing the telescopes to look for possible infrared laser signals from newly discovered planets circling nearby stars, in search of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Actually finding an Earth - sized world circling as far from its star as Earth orbits the sun will take 365 days of observations to detect one pass, plus another year or two of data to verify the orbital period.

White - dwarf stars (circled) cool as they become older.

Recent numerical integrations, however, suggest that stable planetary orbits exist: within three AUs (four AUs for retrograde orbits) of either Alpha Centauri A or B in the plane of the binary's orbit; only as far as 0.23 AU for 90 - degree inclined orbits; and beyond 70 AUs for planets circling both stars (Weigert and Holman, 1997).

Earth and the other seven planets that circle the star we call the sun and smaller objects such as moons make up our solar system.

During the orbital period of such a planet of 0.6 (3) a, an observer on the planet would see this intensely bright companion star circle the sky just as humans see with the Solar System's planets.

«Habitability in a wider sense is not necessarily restricted to water as a solvent or to a planet circling a star.

Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above disks of planet - forming material circling stars, as shown in this artist's co...

In the research of extrasolar planets, astronomers have found a wide variety of planets such as Jupiter - like gaseous giant planets circling around central stars in a much smaller orbit than that of the Mercury, and planets that have a very large orbit far beyond the Neptune's orbit.

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.

If we picture the solar system, we often picture our dominant star at the center of things, static and immobile as planets orbit circles around it.

The majority of these exoplanets have been found snuggled up to their host star completing an orbit (or year) in hours, days or weeks, while some have been found orbiting as far as Earth is to the sun, taking one - Earth - year to circle.

Kepler - 16b was the Kepler telescope's first discovery of a planet in a «circumbinary» orbit — circling both stars, as opposed to just one, in a double - star system.

I give 4 stars instead of 5 because it doesn't work for me as I would like, unfortunately I have pretty dark (kind of purple) under eye cirles, and this is my skin tone so it lightens my circles just a little bit.