Sentences with phrase «birth of the solar system»

Or you could say that Comet ISON's end was foretold 4.56 billion years ago, when it and trillions of others like it formed during the birth of the solar system.

Earth formed as part of the birth of the solar system: what eventually became the solar system initially existed as a large, rotating cloud of dust and gas.

Tracking down that heat touched off another detective process, with the trail leading all the way back to the birth of the solar system.

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered oxygen in 67P Churyumov - Gerasimenko's atmosphere — and the team thinks it may date back to the birth of the solar system, when comets and planets first formed.

As the planet coalesced during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago, the swirling disk of gas surrounding it included several moons about the size of Titan, Saturn's largest remaining satellite, which is about 50 % larger than Earth's moon.

And the detection of a single, feather - light, millimeter - sized particle — preserved since the birth of the solar system — should further the view of a gentle birth.

Once regarded as «vermin of the skies,» asteroids are now known to offer important clues to the birth of the solar system.

It could be an errant, captured asteroid, or perhaps a «genesis rock» — a long - sought relic from the birth of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.

Such stars would share the sun's age, chemical composition, and motion through space — and might give insight into the birth of the solar system.

The following chronology describes important stages in the development of carbon - based life on Earth, beginning with the birth of the Solar System about 4.6 billion years ago.

A UCLA - led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old and probably formed only about 60 million years after the birth of the solar system — 40 million to 140 million years earlier than had been thought.

ISON could give astronomers like him clues to the birth of the solar system, 4.5 billion years ago.

They're the remaining clues to the birth of the solar system.

A close look at the ages of rock and metal fragments from the birth of the solar system suggests the giant planet formed early on.

This is a truly outstanding manual for anyone who has an interest in studying these relics of the birth of the solar system.

Then OSIRIS REx mission Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta will tell us how the spacecraft will return a sample of material from the birth of the solar system.

Comets are made up of materials from ancient stars, interstellar clouds, and the birth of our Solar System.

Since 1975 I have been obsessed with the observation that all primordial helium was tagged with excess Xe - 136 at the birth of the solar system [«Host phase of a strange xenon component in Allende,» Science, vol.