Sentences with phrase «captured by the planet»

Whether they started as planetary twins or as wayward rocks captured by a planet's gravity, these natural satellites can be as geologically active, weather - beaten or just plain weird as any planet.

Moons can form in one of three ways: accretion around a developing planet, capture by a planet's gravity or a giant impact from an asteroid or planet - size body that carves it out of a planet.

(Theoretically, the spacecraft was captured by the planet at 8:38 P.M., about halfway through the burn, but confirmation did not come until later.)

These moons were probably asteroids captured by the planet's gravitational pull when they came too close to Mars.

there are many small moons that are probably started out as asteroids and were only later captured by a planet;

Not exact matches

Fashionable planetary science loving teens will love wearing planets captured by the Hubble Space Telescope around their neck this winter.

after being captured by apes on a planet they rule.

If the planet happens to be close to its perihelion, Brown says, astronomers should be able to spot it in images captured by previous surveys.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

The technology, called carbon capture and storage, or CCS, collects planet - warming carbon pollution produced by power plants and permanently removes it from circulation.

Moons are generally thought to form in one of two ways — either by coalescing from the same cloud of debris as their parent planet, or as wandering objects captured by the parent's gravitational pull.

Astronomers tracked the interplanetary shocks caused by two powerful bursts of solar wind traveling from the sun to Uranus, then used Hubble to capture their effect on Uranus» auroras — and found themselves observing the most intense auroras ever seen on the planet.

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

by Xuening Bai and James Stone in the department of astrophysical sciences at Princeton captures the process of planet formation.

The first signs of life on another planet may not be a complex signal captured by an antenna or images of a scampering creature on the horizon, but a track left in long - dried mud.

Captured by ESA's Venus Express orbiter, this radiation indicates that the highlands of the planet's southern hemisphere resemble granite, the same material that makes up terrestrial continents.

Magnesium lines are critical for determining a black holes mass, but for objects at this distance, the redshifting of the light makes them extremely difficult to capture from the surface of our planet due to absorption by atmospheric water vapor.

If confirmed by further research, the new study would challenge a theoretical model for atmosphere formation in which Earth began with two reservoirs of solar gas captured during the planet's formation and youth — one surrounding the planet, the other buried beneath the surface.

Although it completed its primary science objectives by March 2012, the spacecraft's mission was extended two times, allowing it to capture images and information about the planet in unprecedented detail.

Forming stars, planets, moons, or meteoroids by capturing18 smaller orbiting bodies is far more difficult than most people realize.19 However, if gases are inside these spheres, capture becomes more likely, and the more particles captured, the larger the sphere of influence becomes.

Batygin says he spends little time ruminating on its origin — whether it is a fugitive from our own solar system or, just maybe, a wandering rogue planet captured by the sun's gravity.

It had previously been proposed that the two small moons were either wandering asteroids that had been captured by Mars» gravitational influence, or satellites that had coalesced in the wake of a violent collision between the Red Planet and a large impactor.

However, the powerful gravity of Jupiter probably flung them out near Mars where they were captured eternally by the small red planet.

This view of Saturn's moon Enceladus above the planet's ring plane was captured by the narrow - angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft at a distance of approximately 630,000 miles (1 million kilometres) from the tiny water world.

Numerous stars provide a serene background in this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus captured by the Cassini spacecraft while the moon was in eclipse, within the ringed planet's shadow.

Featuring footage of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) and narrated by actress Jennifer Lawrence, images of our magnificent blue planet demonstrate the effects humanity has had on it over time in this film captured by the astronauts aboard the ISS.

Several formation mechanisms have been proposed to explain Sedna's extreme orbit, including interactions with planet - sized bodies, stellar encounters, multiple stellar fly - bys in a stellar birth cluster, interstellar capture, and perturbations from a wide - binary solar companion.

The high - quality data captured by SPHERE will help astronomers shed more light on the various processes involved in the formation of planets.

This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never - before - seen close passage of a comet by the Red Planet, which happened at 2:28 p.m. EDT Oct. 19, 2014.

The image captured by the ALMA — by turning radio signals, which measure electromagnetic radiation, into digital signals and translating those into a visual representation — «gives an incredible view of the process of planet formation,» Tony Beasley, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, says in a press release Thursday.

The image captured by the ALMA — by turning radio signals, which measure electromagnetic radiation, into digital signals and translating those into a visual representation — «gives an incredible view of the process of planet formation,» Tony Beasley, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, says in a

The launched material — comets, asteroids (including the irregular moons2 captured by the giant planets), and TNOs — totaled about 3 % of Earth's mass.

Scientists also believe that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which is slightly larger than Pluto, may be a KBO that was captured long ago by the giant planet's gravity.

In 2008, astronomers finally discovered the faint signal of a planet eight times the mass of Jupiter, captured in images taken by the Very Large Telescope in 2003.

After crash - landing on Sakaar — a scummy junkyard planet surrounded by wormholes — Thor is captured by scavengers and taken to serve as a gladiator for the planet's eccentric ruler, known as the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, attempts to take down Batman by writing a series of unflattering articles in the Daily Planet that focus on the Dark Knight's brutal crime - fighting tactics and propensity for getting his captures killed in prison.

The screenplay, credited to Eric Pearson, Craig Kyler and Christopher L. Yost, really finds its footing after Thor is expelled from Asgard, his home planet, to a distant world, where he is quickly captured by indie warrior Scrapper (Tessa Thompson) and sold to Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

The special effects team behind the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy stopped by NYCC to give fans a demonstration of their motion capture process.

Director Rupert Wyatt gets an adequate performance from Franco and a rather hammy one from Olyelowo, and Pinto is primarily window dressing, but moments of brilliance from Lithgow and a truly astounding performance by Andy Serkis as the motion - capture - animated Caesar make rise of the Planet of the Apes worth seeing.

Then he's been captured by a bounty hunter named Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) on a strange planet called Sakaar, given a haircut and forced to compete in gladiatorial combat against Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), which is controlled by a man called The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) who's hanging around with his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston).

One especially unnerving scene places us at a swanky gala dinner that is interrupted by a performance artist — played, brilliantly, by the actor and stunt coordinator Terry Notary, whose motion - capture work in the recent «Planet of the Apes» films serves him ferociously well here.

Billed as an origin's story, this remake of the 1972 film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, features motion - capture performances and CGI primates created by the digital wizardry of Weta Digital, the company behind the Avatar characters.

His right - hand man, Klaue, is brought to life by Andy Serkis who's best known for his motion capture work in the Planet of the Apes or Lord of the Rings trilogies.

Description: When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes.

That's when the movie's exuberance really takes hold: Thor finds himself captured by the booze - guzzling bounty hunter Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson, wonderfully rambunctious), a wayward Asgardian warrior who drags the god into the captivity of the planet's ruler, a flamboyant, psychedelic tyrant named Grandmaster who's basically Jeff Goldblum playing himself.

Captured by the boozy mercenary Scrapper 142 (Creed's Tessa Thompson), Thor is tapped by the planet's eccentric Grandmaster (a perfectly Goldblumy Jeff Goldblum) to participate in the Contest of Champions.

Harboring and guarding the map is an adorable, globular droid called BB - 8, who's stranded on the desert planet Jakku when his master, Resistance ace pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), is captured by the First Order.

Disc 1: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** 11 Deleted Scenes ** The Genius of Andy Serkis ** Scene Breakdown ** A New Generation of Apes ** Breaking Motion Capture Boundaries ** The Great Apes ** Mythology of the Apes ** Composing the Score with Patrick Doyle ** Audio Commentaries by Director and Writers ** Character Concept Art Gallery ** Digital Disc 2: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** Journey to Dawn ** Andy Serkis: Rediscovering Caesar ** Humans and Apes: The Cast of Dawn ** The World of Dawn ** The Ape Community ** Move Like an Ape: An Artist's Medium ** Weta and Dawn ** The Fight for a New Dawn ** Deleted Scenes With Optional Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves ** Feature Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves ** Gallery ** Digital Disc 3: War for the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** Audio Commentary by Director Matt Reeves ** Deleted Scenes with Optional Audio Commentary by Director Matt Reeves ** Waging War for the Planet of the Apes ** All About Caesar ** WETA: Pushing Boundaries ** Music for Apes ** Apes: The Meaning of It All ** The Apes Saga: An Homage ** Concept Art Gallery ** Theatrical Trailers ** Digital

In addition to its exquisitely crafted spectacle (artfully punctuated by Giancchino's heart - string - tugging score) and hefty themes (War for the Planet of the Apes deals in humanity's worst milestones, with allusions to the Holocaust and Slavery), War functions as a powerful vehicle for Andy Serkis, who redraws the lines of motion - capture performance's potential once again.

That critique comes to the fore in a brilliant, Buñuelian performance - art sequence that will lodge itself in your brain for days, built around a terrifying turn by Terry Notary, whose animal / creature motion - capture work you may have seen in «Kong: Skull Island» and the recent «Planet of the Apes» movies.