Sentences with phrase «celestial object moves»

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another.

Not exact matches

It's a great feature which allows you to track down the celestial highlights you're interested in quickly, follow moving objects (i.e. for astrophotography), and more.

The word simply meant «wanderer» and referred to the seven prominent celestial objects that moved against the background of stars.

As with any other celestial object, quasars are constantly moving through space, but they are so far away from Earth that from our perspective they appear to stand still.

This spectrum of visible and invisible radiation will help them learn about what the celestial object is composed of, how hot it is, how dense it is and how fast it's moving.

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

I am reminded very strongly of the first scientific paper I ever wrote while a UROP student at MIT on «apparent super-luminal motion», which is to say astronomical observations that seemed to indicate that two celestial objects were moving apart faster than the speed of light.