Sentences with phrase «exerts strong gravitational»

One possibility is that the central star of Mz 3 has a closely orbiting companion that exerts strong gravitational tidal forces, which shape the outflowing gas.

Greenland and Antarctica's massive ice sheets exert a strong gravitational pull on the waters around them, but as they melt, the attraction weakens, causing nearby sea levels to fall.

First, they showed that when this happens, the disc would exert a stronger gravitational pull on the solar system.

They represent larger galaxies, which exert a stronger gravitational pull than smaller ones because of their mass.

Not exact matches

The region of space around an object where a satellite could orbit indefinitely is called the Hill sphere, roughly defined as where the object's gravitational field is stronger than that exerted by another object outside the sphere.

Formed by the collapse of massive stars, they exert a gravitational force so strong it traps light as well as matter.

Here's hoping that the waters remain calm since the gravitational pull of the Sun and moon's alignment exert a stronger pull on the tides today.

Since the moon is closer to the earth it exerts more gravitational gradient than the sun and so has a stronger effect on the world's oceans.