Sentences with phrase «contracted under gravity»

These particles contracted under gravity to create planetesimals, which collided with one another to become the solid inner planets.

Nearby disturbances can cause denser clumps of the nebula to contract under gravity, becoming hot and pressurised in the process.

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Normally, stars form when a cloud of dust and gas starts to contract under its own gravity, heating up as the pressure rises.

Slowly, the haze contracted under its own gravity, compressing the centre until it was hot enough to ignite into the seed of a star.

As a ball of dust and gas contracts under its own gravity, it begins to shrink and its core begins collapsing faster and faster.

[11] In April 2011, Astrobotic received a $ 599,000 two - year contract to develop a scalable gravity offload device for testing rover mobility in simulated lunar gravity under NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR).