Sentences with phrase «comets near the star»

So Marengo and his colleagues say the destruction of a family of comets near the star is the most likely explanation for the mysterious dimming.

Not exact matches

As it neared the Sun, charged particles from our star burned material off the comet.

It's a hypothetical region of space where comets come from, about halfway between us and the nearest star.

Even a near miss of the Oort cloud by a passing star might be enough of a gravitational tug to redirect some comets toward the inner solar system; Gliese 710, by current estimates, will pass right through.

Try to spot the comet low in the southeast around 5 a.m. local time on Nov. 17 or 18, when it passes near the bright star Spica.

Since his prediction, Alfvén waves have been associated with a variety of sources, including nuclear reactors, the gas cloud that envelops comets, laboratory experiments, medical MRI imaging and in the atmosphere of our nearest star — the Sun.

Additionally, Gao has done many observations timely to gamma - ray bursts, near - Earth objects, comets, variable stars, etc..