Sentences with phrase «also orbiting»

There's a gas giant located about 330 light - years from here that's not only unusually large, it's also orbiting its host star at an incredibly close distance.

Ordinarily, those transits will occur at regular intervals, like celestial clockwork, but oddities in Kepler 19 b's transit times suggest the influence of the other half of the pair — a larger, unseen planet also orbiting Kepler 19 and perturbing the motion of its neighbor.

Many young stars known to host planets also possess disks containing dust and icy grains, particles produced by collisions among asteroids and comets also orbiting the star.

This is more like saying «We are pretty sure the moon orbits the earth, but our moon might also orbit other planets when we can't see it, I mean, it's really one of the great mysteries...»

Some of them, such as Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, additionally possess planetary rings — a collection of still smaller bodies of different sizes that also orbit a planet.

Observations made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal gas diving into four small black holes within a few light - years of the galaxy's core, where thousands of other hidden holes may also orbit.

Mignard says this value should improve once the Gaia team starts detailed analysis of data from binary stars, which also orbit each other.

As the clouds revolve around us, they have also orbited each other.

The worlds also orbit their stars at very different distances, from less than a million km to nearly 100 billion km away.

To predict when astronomers might find the first planet similar in size to Earth that also orbits far enough from its star to boast liquid water, the team scoured the discovery records of 370 exoplanets.

Kepler - 10c also orbits close to its star — so close that it completes an orbit in only 45 days.

The system includes not only the orbiting and ground - based antennas, but also the orbit determination, tracking stations, the correlator, and the image - processing software,» said Jonathan Romney, the NRAO astronomer who led the development of the VLBA correlator, and its enhancement to process data from orbiting radio telescopes.

Not only are these planets intrinsically faint, they also orbit very bright host stars.

There is no doubt that in the «usual» meaning it is orbiting the Sun, but as the Sun is orbiting the SSB, the satellite will follow along and also orbit the SSB.

The «real» orbit is sort of meaningless, as the SSB also orbits in the Galaxy that in turn orbits... etc..

Not exact matches

And we also improved the capability of the vehicle from 10 tons to about 13 tons to LEO [low - Earth orbit].

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

With Vector and Virgin Orbit also pushing to reach orbital launch this year, these rocket builders are hoping to seize a part of the premium market to launch small satellites.

Having made hundreds of orbits around Saturn, Cassini was also able to deeply investigate other features only glimpsed from Earth or earlier probes.

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

He also wants to be the man who designs a vehicle capable of not just brushing the edge of space, but actually going into orbit.

SpaceX is also planning an additional constellation of 7,518 V band satellites, situated in a «very low» Earth orbit at just over 200 miles.

Also known as a perigean full moon or perigee syzygy, a supermoon happens when the moon is full at its closest point in its not - quite - circular orbit around Earth.

A host of other Suntory liquors and alcoholic beverages will also make the landmark journey to the intergalactic astronaut digs, which orbits some 220 miles above our big blue marble.

Flying in egg - shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, Juno also will look for evidence that Jupiter has a dense inner core and measure how much water is in the atmosphere, a key yardstick for figuring out how far away from the sun the gas giant formed.

«Turning over low - Earth orbit transportation to private industry also will allow NASA to focus on an even more ambitious mission - sending humans to Mars.»

A new album is big business for Swift herself, but also for the many corporations in her orbit.

NASA also did not immediately answer our questions about Musk's stated plan to launch a car to Mars orbit.

Also in the retail bot orbit: U.K. online supermarket Ocado is testing a prototype robot engineered to assist human warehouse workers.

Terms for exiting staff also push would - be former Uber staffers into Grab's orbit, according to details supplied to TechCrunch.

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Osberg has also bumped with the swells in Buffett's orbit: She was an occasional guest at the Georgetown home of Katharine Graham, then the owner of The Washington Post, when Osberg visited the city during the 1990s.

I was also concerned at first that putting a car into orbit around Mars seemed, well, profligate.

1 Chronicles 16:30 and Psalm 93:1 state that the earth is immobile; yet it not only revolves and orbits the sun but is also influenced by the gravitational pull of other bodies.

Can you prove that orbiting a few thousand of those trillion trillion stars there aren't other planets on which he has also created life?

Just as believing that the earth orbits around the sun does not give me eternal life, so also, none of the beliefs I have just stated in the previous paragraph will give me eternal life by believing them.

He can't also find evidence to show there are no unicorns, and no teapot orbiting Jupiter, does that mean belief in either is really warranted?

The standard of «no proof» means you also must accept, if you are consistent, that there is a 1957 Chevy orbiting Pluto.

I also believe that there is no fluffy pink unicorn orbiting around the moon because all evidence is against it.

People also believed that the sun orbited the Earth, until they had the facts.

It followed that there might be other orbits which are also discrete, which would explain the discrete spectra, and so on.

Less obvious to the extraordinary, they also depend upon the ordinary: the meaning of their thinking, the possibilities of imagination and of founding — these may soar far above the common, but they are launched from the common earth and never leave its orbit.

Also, sun set and sun rise are predominantly caused by the rotation of the Earth around its own axis, and only in small part by its orbit around the sun.

To measure the orbit of a planet we must record not only the position of the planet relative to us but also the exact time we observe the planet.

A stegasaurus orbiting Pluto has also NOT spoken to me so therefore it IS real?

There is also no way to prove there is no 1957 Chevy orbiting Pluto.

And it is not only being drawn to an object of desire which is at work in love, but also the transforming experience of coming within the orbit of the love of another.

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.

I also find your assertion that there is no other planet that is orbiting a sun at the right distance to support life highly unlikely given the size of the universe and the age.

Along came Einstein, and with his theory of relativity, explained why planets have elliptical orbits and also predicted the number of degrees that sunlight would bend by during an eclipse.