Sentences with phrase «as circular disks»

It took almost 30 years before computers became powerful enough to run two - dimensional simulations, in which stars are treated as circular disks.

Not exact matches

With as few movements as possible, transfer the dough to a well - floured counter or surface, flour the top of the dough, and pat it into a circular disk about 1 - inch high.

The question is whether the bodies were asteroids captured intact by Mars gravity or whether the tiny satellites formed from an equatorial disk of debris, as is most consistent with their nearly circular and co-planar orbits.

The researchers explain the different circular or elliptical shapes as being due to the fact that each disk is tilted toward Earth by different degrees.

The four distinguishing characteristics of the spirals are: (a) they have more orderly, rotational motion than random motion (the rotation refers to the disk as a whole and means that the star orbits are closely confined to a narrow range of angles and are fairly circular); (b) they have some or a lot of gas and dust between the stars; (c) this means they can have new star formation occuring in the disk, particularly in the spiral arms; and (d) they have a spiral structure.

The in - line remote also takes on this circular design, appearing as a disk at the converging point of the left and right wires.