Sentences with phrase «dark vortex»

The game has a new trailer to coincide with the Japanese expo, and we can see more of its amnesiac heroine Gravity Kitten flying around buildings, city structures, subway trains, and dark vortexes in the sky.

«Dark vortices coast through the atmosphere like huge, lens - shaped gaseous mountains,» Wong said.

This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune.

Astronomers suspected that these clouds might be bright companion clouds following an unseen dark vortex.

Unlike Jupiter's GRS, which has been visible for at least 200 years, Neptune's dark vortices only last a few years.

Planetary astronomers hope to better understand how dark vortices originate, what controls their drifts and oscillations, how they interact with the environment, and how they eventually dissipate, according to UC Berkeley doctoral student Joshua Tollefson, who was recently awarded a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to study Neptune's atmosphere.

In 2015, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a strange feature in the skies over Neptune — a swirling dark vortex the size of China.

A huge, high - pressure, dark vortex system anchored deep in Neptune's atmosphere may be what's causing the colossal cloud cover.

The dark vortex is behaving differently from what planet - watchers predicted.

Measuring the evolution of the new dark vortex will extend knowledge of both the dark vortices themselves, as well as the structure and dynamics of the surrounding atmosphere.

Neptune's dark vortices are typically only seen at blue wavelengths, and only Hubble has the high resolution required for seeing them on distant Neptune.

This new Hubble Space Telescope image confirms the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune.

The first images of the dark vortex are from the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, a long - term Hubble project that annually captures global maps of our solar system's four outer planets.

Neptune's dark vortices have exhibited surprising diversity over the years, in terms of size, shape, and stability (they meander in latitude, and sometimes speed up or slow down).

«It looks like we're capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it's different from what well - known studies led us to expect,» said Michael H. Wong of the University of California at Berkeley, referring to work by Ray LeBeau (now at St. Louis University) and Tim Dowling's team at the University of Louisville.

Additional data, from a Hubble program targeting the dark vortex, are from an international team including Wong, Tollefson, Sánchez - Lavega, Andrew Hsu, Imke de Pater, Amy Simon, Ricardo Hueso, Lawrence Sromovsky, Patrick Fry, Statia Luszcz - Cook, Heidi Hammel, Marc Delcroix, Katherine de Kleer, Glenn Orton, and Christoph Baranec.

Neptune's dark vortices are high - pressure systems and are usually accompanied by bright «companion clouds,» which are also now visible on the distant planet.

New images obtained on May 16, 2016, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune.

The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.

As with every planet, winds in Neptune's atmosphere vary drastically with latitude, so if there is a big bright cloud system that spans many latitudes, something must hold it together, such as a dark vortex.

Winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two - thirds of the United States.

In my next column we'll examine strategies that can help you avoid being sucked into that dark vortex of feeling out of control.

That puts a certain mental distance between us and the situation, which stops us from being sucked even further into that dark vortex.