Sentences with phrase «celestial objects into»

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These bright, celestial objects serve as beacons across the sky, helping astronomers peer deep into space and calculate the size, shape and mass of the universe.

The moon is quite close to us (compared to all other celestial objects) and reflects A LOT of sunlight, directly through the telescope into your eyes.

Although these stellar oddities emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, observing in the X-ray band offers the greatest insights into these unusual, incredibly dense celestial objects, which, if compressed any further, would collapse completely into black holes.

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

Large collisions between celestial objects can generate moons when material is splashed into orbit around the larger object and coalesces into one or more moons under its own gravity.

As determined by the International Astronomical Union, any celestial object with a mass greater than 13 Jupiters should be considered a star.But according to Jonathan Fortney, an exoplanet and brown dwarf theorist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this definition leaves a lot of researchers cold because it doesn't take into account how the object was formed.

So the extinction of the dinosaurs and the extinction of the megafauna both were caused by celestial objects crashing into or very near the USA?

(6) Any vehicle used or designed for flight or navigation in space and on the registry of the United States pursuant to the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies and the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, while that vehicle is in flight, which is from the moment when all external doors are closed on Earth following embarkation until the moment when one such door is opened on Earth for disembarkation or in the case of a forced landing, until the competent authorities take over the responsibility for the vehicle and for persons and property aboard.

A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object, and over any personnel thereof, while in outer space or on a celestial body.

Ownership of objects launched into outer space, including objects landed or constructed on a celestial body, and of their component parts, is not affected by their presence in outer space or on a celestial body or by their return to the Earth.