Sentences with phrase «around the sun because»

But it only takes 225 days to go around the sun because it's so close to it.

The second - largest contribution comes from the warping of space - time around the Sun because of the star's own gravity, which is covered by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Re 51 Tom P — watched the video; and I agree that the sun does wobble around the center of mass of the solar system; the center of mass itself is not tending to wobble around the sun because conservation of momentum applies to the solar system as a whole (except of course for the forces applied to it by nearby stars, the rest of the galaxy, etc, but those are not varying so fast and so the center of mass should generally be moving along rather smoothly on the same timescale as planetary motions).

Not exact matches

Classical physics — the kind we know about courtesy of Galileo and Newton — is comparatively easy to understand because we can clearly see it working all around us: the apple falls from the tree; the earth orbits the sun; the thrown baseball follows an arc that we can predict with an equation.

We have no photos of it because its orbit around the sun is roughly 415 years.

(Galileo was almost beheaded because he said the Earth revolved around the Sun, not the other way around.)

What you claim is as silly as saying «when only a few learned scholars figured out the earth went around the sun, that was wrong because MOST people believed the sun went around the earth and claimed to see that motion every day.»

Remember that the Catholic church fathers fought the observation that the earth revolved around the sun just as vehemently because it challenged their faulty beliefs (and power base).

500 years ago about 99 % of people believed the Earth was flat and the sun revolved around the Earth because the Bible said so.

Scientists know that the Earth exists because of the sun, as well as the other planets and debris floating around in the solar system.

Everyone «knows,» for example, that Galileo, courageously defending Copernicus» discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, was roundly condemned by the Inquisition because his conclusions conflicted with the Bible; and everyone «knows» that the history of Christian missionary endeavors is inextricably linked with Western colonialism and oppression of native peoples.

At one time people though the world was flat, then they thought that the Sun went around the earth because the bible said so.

Sorry, but people thought the sun went around the earth because they (like you) have never seen the earth move, but they did see the sun rise and set.

You make me laugh, because you are no different than the «scientists» that believed the sun revolved around the earth.

Even the Roman Catholic Pope placed Galileo under house arrest because he said the earth revolved around the sun, contrary to Catholic beliefs.

You say that Science has disproved stories from the Bible, well Scientists once said that there was an edge of the world and you would fall off of it if you went to the edge... they said that the Earth was the center of the universe and that the sun revolved around us... You are all so quick to throw out Christianity because you think 1 story doesn't make sense to you and couldn't have happened how it says in the Bible, yet so willing to follow scientists that constantly revise their theories and change what you inevitably believe.

But there could be more bad news around the corner for Arsenal, because just like with our pursuit of Higuain, the Italian champions Juventus are also interested and The Sun have reported that his wife and agent Wanda Nara has suggested that the forward could be close to joining the Turin club.

Because as active as my parenthood may be right now, I never want to forget how the waiting felt, how the grief wrapped itself around the brightness of the sun, the casual small talk of those not acutely grieving, the ache from the long haul of hope.

Because people thought the sun went around the earth and that Copernicus was insane to think it might possibly be the other way around.

With Mother's Day just around the corner (that's Sun May 14 btw), I'll be sharing our afternoon tea posts on Instagram (@dreamsofvelvet) over the next few weeks, because whose mama doesn't love tea?

The books were started because of a tradition at their Montessori school where the child does a Walk around the Sun on their birthday and the teacher shows photos and tells stories about their life, separated by years as they take one walk around the sun for each year of their liSun on their birthday and the teacher shows photos and tells stories about their life, separated by years as they take one walk around the sun for each year of their lisun for each year of their life.

It seems odd that just because the Earth has moved around the Sun a certain number of times, breastfeeding should end.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

Basically, its star is a twin of the sun, so that's why it's intriguing, because the star is similar to the sun in terms of its age and its mass, and yet the planets around it are obviously so much different from the planets of our own solar system.

They also show that UV - protection of children pays off because rates of melanoma death keep going down from around 1960 to the current day as the UV protection of children based on clothing, shading and avoidance of excessive sun exposure has spread in most light - skinned populations, starting in Australia.

Because we are looking for civilizations that exist today, we are interested in stars born around the same time as the sun — 5 billion years ago.

Even when there is no shower, you will always see twice as many meteors after midnight than before simply because you are then on the side of Earth that faces forward in our motion around the sun.

Because most salts only melt at high temperatures (table salt, for example, melts at around 1472 degrees Fahrenheit, or 800 degrees Celsius) and do not turn to vapor until they get considerably hotter — they can be used to store a lot of the sun's energy as heat.

In 1915, Einstein explained that gravity arises because massive bodies warp space and time, or spacetime, causing free - falling objects to follow curved paths such as the arc of a thrown ball or the elliptical orbit of a planet around its sun.

It would be a different universe because, for example, bound orbits [like Earth's path around the sun] work only in three dimensions of space.

That is because white dwarfs are 1000 times dimmer than stars like the Sun, which are so bright that they overwhelm any reflected light from planets around them.

People commonly think that it would be dark on Pluto because it is so far from the sun, but it is actually about as bright as dusk here on Earth, with enough light for you to very easily read a book and see what's going on around you.

The moon is a bonanza for scientists, Kring says, because it offers crucial insights for understanding the origins and evolution of Earth and other planets: how they formed from the accretion and differentiation of smaller bodies; how they were bombarded by impacts early in their histories; and even how some of them migrated in their orbits around the sun.

Then, astronomers may be able reschedule some of their planned VLBA measurements, Reid says, but with some loss of accuracy because Earth will have passed an optimal point in its orbit around the sun.

Lead author, Dr Jay Farihi (UCL Physics & Astronomy), said: «Building rocky planets around two suns is a challenge because the gravity of both stars can push and pull tremendously, preventing bits of rock and dust from sticking together and growing into full - fledged planets.

But because the coronagraphs have to block out an area slightly larger than the sun itself in order to prevent too much light from leaking in, there is a ring of space around the sun that neither set of instruments looks at.

Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth days, compared to a Mercury year, a complete trip around the Sun, lasting only 88 Earth days — the part of the planet at dawn spends a disproportionately long time in the path of one of the solar system's primary populations of micrometeoroids.

Closer to home, I suppose I left out the sun, which of course, itself is mostly plasma, because [the] high - temperature center of the sun is 15 million degrees, and so that is plenty hot enough to separate the electrons and the protons and to make sure that they move around freely inside the center of the sun.

Follow - up observations are important because they allow us to establish the NEA's orbit around the Sun more accurately, and to learn about the NEO's spin state, size, and composition.

Because, as astronomy reporter Christopher Crockett writes in «Signs of planet detected around sun's nearest neighbor star» (SN: 6/17/16, p.

Because of parallax due to Earth's motion around the sun, the path appears scalloped.

Because the asteroid's orbit closely resembles the path of the Earth around the sun, says Paul Chodas of JPL, the object may turn out to be a rocket booster discarded from an earlier space flight.

The strength of these signals varies according to a seasonal pattern, which was expected because Earth's velocity should change relative to the surrounding dark matter as it revolves around the Sun.

* Coherent catastrophism * is about lumps hitting Earth with correlations in time, with some sort of order; this might involve groups of lumps hitting us at a certain time of year for a few centuries, because they happen to be arranged in a co-moving stream in orbit around the Sun.

It will also allow us to understand the mechanisms that may be going on around other stars, given the Sun is the easiest to study because it's significantly closer than the other stars (4.3 light years being th next closest).

Because they are so close to their suns, they are gravitationally locked, causing one face of the planet to constantly face toward their stars, similar to the way the Moon revolves around the Earth.

Because those stars are so close to our solar system, the study suggests that there's no dark matter around Earth and the sun.

Because M - dwarfs are so small, with around a tenth of the mass of the Sun, their planetary systems are also on a much smaller scale than our Solar System.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 60,000 early deaths occur each year worldwide because of excessive exposure to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

KBOs fascinate astronomers because their composition may be close to that of the primordial material that coalesced around the Sun during the solar system's formation.