Sentences with phrase «axis aligns»

The horizontal axis aligns participating companies into 9 segments, each addressing different degrees of consolidation.

«Many of these ghostly butterflies appear to have their long axes aligned along the plane of our galaxy.

Since a star and its planets were never part of a single swirling gas and dust cloud spinning around the same axis, there is no reason for hot Jupiters to have their spin axes aligned with the star's spin axis, or for all their orbits to be prograde.

This keeps the X axis aligned.

From this point, with both X axes aligned, the raw data is shown on the chart, but is a little difficult to interpret.

But you are right, the chances of it ever being dead horizontal with a vertical component of zero is astronomically tiny, same if it were vertical axis aligned.

Not exact matches

So far the stakes in this curious episode have aligned along a familiar axis.

The X400W also supports headless mode for auto - aligning the drone, one - button 360 - degree rolls, and a precise six - axis gyro for stability.

Asteroids that were spinning clockwise therefore all had their rotational axes slowly aligned in one direction, whereas those twirling counterclockwise tended to line up in another direction.

Get the atoms» polar axes to align, and the material itself becomes magnetic.

Choose some direction along which to align the magnets — say, the z - axis — and the spin of any electron will only ever be found to be up or down; no electron will ever be measured as three - quarters «up» along that direction.

Each also has a weird property called spin: It behaves as if it were an infinitesimal revolving sphere with a magnetic field that aligns with the spin axis.

14 Stock up on DVDs and fire up the sunlamp: Uranus's axis of rotation is nearly aligned with the plane of its orbit, meaning that each pole on Uranus experiences a 42 - year - long summer of steady sunshine — followed by a depressing 42 years of winter darkness.

Uranus» magnetic field and rotation axis are out of alignment by 59 degrees, unlike Earth's, whose magnetic field and rotation axis are nearly aligned.

By comparing the second - long ripple picked up by the detectors with previously calculated «waveforms,» the LIGO team determined how closely the black holes» spins aligned with their orbital axis.

As Charon's gravity pulls on Pluto, it would pull proportionally more on areas of higher mass, which would tilt the planet until Sputnik Planum became aligned with the tidal axis.

As you rotate one of the polarizers, you can see through them clearly when their axes are aligned, barely at all when they are perpendicular and to some extent at other angles.

Whereas nearly all previous simulations considered aligned disks, in reality, most galaxies» central supermassive black holes are thought to harbor tilted disks — meaning the disk rotates around a separate axis than the black hole itself.

By contrast, the four - meter Mayall telescope a few blocks away weighs 375 tons because it has an equatorial mount aligned with Earth's axis of rotation.

They are aligned along the 60 - degree crystal axes, but they start more randomly.

And that if you heat a magnet up enough, then you have no magnet at all: High temperatures randomly jumble all the bits of magnetic material (ultimately orientations of spinning electrons) that had aligned themselves along the north - to - south - pole axis.

These phases were characterized respectively by flow patterns which were random, aligned along an axis, and those which swirled around individual focal points.

The team has also found that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web in which they reside.

He adds that similarly simple causes may lie at the heart of other CMB mysteries, such as temperature differences that seem to be aligned along a preferred direction, dubbed the «axis of evil ``.

When the beam aligned with the molecule's axis, the molecule absorbed the beam's energy and emitted a telltale burst of fluorescence.

With the honeycomb shape, this eventually led to an oval ring of cells within the pore — with the majority aligned along the long axis.

The aligned hydrogen nuclei are not stationary, but precess about their axes like children's tops.

RHIC is the world's only polarized proton collider, capable of sending beams of protons around its 2.4 - mile - circumference racetrack with their internal magnetic axes (also known as spins) aligned in a chosen direction.

In order to segregate chromosomes into the two emerging cells, the spindle itself needs a bipolar structure, and so the microtubules must be sorted to align with the long pole - to - pole axis of the spindle.

After observing 70 dogs defecate 1893 times and urinate 5582 times over a 2 - year period, the researchers noticed that the dogs sometimes aligned the axis of their bodies with the geomagnetic field.

Instead, he claims that the inner core behaves like a giant asymmetric crystal, aligned with the Earth's axis so that seismic waves travel faster in that direction.

Their magnetic fields are aligned with these axes.

«It produces the matter / antimatter asymmetry in the early universe and it aligns the direction of the spin and the charge axis in these pear - shaped nuclei.»

A mysterious cold spot lurked in the southern sky; fluctuations between large areas of the sky were even smaller than expected; and fluctuations at some scales seemed to align along a preferred direction, forming what has been dubbed an «axis of evil».

«From our live cell imaging experiments, we observed that MTs that were initially aligned along the top - bottom axis of the unfertilized egg cell, disintegrates upon fertilization, leading to shrinkage of the cell,» describes Ueda.

The Subaru data reveal the presence of a surrounding large scale structure with the major axis running approximately north - west south - east (NW - SE), aligned with the cluster and its brightest galaxy shapes, showing elongation with a \ sim 2:1 axis ratio in the plane of the sky.

Those nebulae that are butterfly - shaped or hourglass - shaped tend to be mysteriously aligned such that their rotation axis is perpendicular to the plane of our galaxy.

It found that Saturn's magnetic field is closely aligned with the planet's axis of rotation, which baffled scientists because of how they think magnetic fields are generated — through a difference of tilt between the magnetic field and a planet's rotation.

Unlike all the planets in our Solar System, many hot Jupiters are orbiting retrograde, 16 and their spin axes are not aligned with their star's spin axis.17 How can that be?

The different Q values also allow the planets to re-align their orbits with the spin of the star (so that the orbital plane is perpendicular to the star's spin axis) on a timescale shorter than the orbital period decay, thus explaining why there are many «aligned» hot Jupiters.

The Doppler tomographic measurement indicates that the planetary orbit is well aligned with the projected spin - axis of the star ($ \ lambda = 3.4 \ pm -LCB- 2.1 -RCB- $ degrees).

A polar - aligned telescope, also called an equatorial - mounted telescope, parallels the axis of the Earth for its spin axis.

Moreover, we show that using the integrated solid effect both for single - and double - quantum transitions nuclear spin polarization can be achieved even when the static magnetic field is not aligned along the NV's crystal axis.

Analysis of the rotational splitting of the oscillation modes additionally reveals the stellar spin axis to be nearly edge - on, which suggests that the stellar spin is likely well - aligned with the orbit of the transiting planet.

During its January 2008 flyby, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft detected an internal magnetic field consistent with the field from a dipole nearly aligned with the planet's spin axis (with a dipole tilt around 10 °).

The shape described by the Sun's position, considered at the same time each day for a complete year, is called the analemma and resembles a figure 8 aligned along a North / South axis.

By looking at the platelets of open water fish under the microscope, the team found that the platelets align well on vertical axes, allowing fish to reflect the predictable downward direction of light in the open ocean.

Continue to look down, keeping your head and gaze in line with your foot to help align the axis of the torso over the right leg.

Keep your gaze on your right foot, and with an exhalation, lift your ribs and shift your lower abdomen to the right to align the midline, or axis, of your torso with the right leg.

The driving position is comfortable, the pedals are perfectly aligned on the driver's axis, and the steering wheel is at an optimal angle in relation to the vertical axis.