Sentences with phrase «appear near the moon»

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He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.

The Moon will also be very near its minimum distance from the Earth (perigee), so will be appear to be near its maximum apparent size.

The possible ring appears as a faint streak near Jupiter's moon Himalia in an image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Although it is among the brightest and nearest active galaxies, its torus still appeared tens of thousands of times smaller than the moon (arxiv.org/abs/1604.00205).

Captured by Cassini's narrow - angle camera, five of Saturn's 62 known moons appear together, hovering near the planet's outer rings.

«Jupiter» himself appears near the end of the play, while a stage direction calls for four ghosts to dance in a circle; could this be an allusion to the planet's four newly discovered moons, described by Galileo?

There are no jolly elves at Titan's north pole; liquid methane and ethane seas appear as splotchy features near the moon's poles.

Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.

I saw of graph of the precession cycle once and it appeared to occasionally skip a beat — perhaps when eccentricity got near zero — this makes some intuitive sense at least... (cause of Obliquity cycle is less obvious than precession of axis; perhaps some contribution comes from the Earth - Moon orbit and Earth + Moon — Sun orbit not being in the same plane — although the Moon's orbit will «average» near the plane of the Earth - Sun orbit over a relatively short time, but there's lunar orbit eccentricity, etc,... residuals might build up...?