Sentences with phrase «explained by the planet»

And the latest dip, observed the week before last, can be explained by the planet passing behind the star.

This radial structure su... ▽ More The large cavities observed in the dust and gas distributions of transition disks may be explained by planet - disk interactions.

Abstract: The large cavities observed in the dust and gas distributions of transition disks may be explained by planet - disk interactions.

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I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

The contradictions of existence are explained by positing a prae as needed (because of an earlier state the individual has come into his present otherwise inexplicable situation); or by positing a post as needed (on another planet the individual is to be placed in a more favorable situation, in view of which his present state is not inexplicable).

Along came Einstein, and with his theory of relativity, explained why planets have elliptical orbits and also predicted the number of degrees that sunlight would bend by during an eclipse.

What a rejoicing in the camp of the conservatives there has been over the publication of the recent volume of Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, which asserts that it was a literal statement of fact, attested by the legends of peoples all over the world, to be explained by the birth of the planet Venus.

And the assumption by pediatric sleep researchers that there is one ideal sleeping arrangement for all, or that cosleeping is harmful and detrimental or that infants need to «consolidate their sleep as soon in life as is possible» is not only fallacious but harmful and it explains why western parents are the most exhausted, disappointed least satisfied, (yet, most educated and well read), I am convinced, than any other parents on the planet, as regards their infant's sleep.

As Sun columnist Tony Parsons explained: «For centuries we have entertained and enlightened the rest of the planet» — in part by being «a warrior race that has stood up to oppression and tyrants throughout history (often with the help of our neighbours in Scotland, Ireland and Wales)».

«Boundaries for a Healthy Planet,» by atmospheric scientist Jonathan Foley, explains the safe thresholds for environmental processes that profoundly affect sustainability.

Led by Renu Malhotra, a Regents» Professor of Planetary Sciences in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab, the team found that the four Kuiper Belt Objects with the longest known orbital periods revolve around the Sun in patterns most readily explained by the presence of a hypothetical «Planet Nine» approximately ten times the mass of Earth.

«Astronomers have found a lot of planets whose sizes can not be explained by standard theory,» says Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University.

SEAS researchers suggest that early Mars may have been warmed intermittently by a powerful greenhouse effect, possibly explaining water on the planet's surface billions of years ago.

An oversized free - floating planet formed by agglomeration would not have a disk, explains Lada, so these dwarfs must have formed like stars.

HD 8799's four planets, each five to 13 times Jupiter's mass, are too far apart to be explained easily by either model, say Christian Marois of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and colleagues.

These characteristics would explain the extreme time dilation on the world where the film's intrepid planet hunters landed: In one hour there, seven elapsed on Earth, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.

According to the model, the ratios of aluminum isotopes can be explained by the parent isotope having been injected in a one - time event into the planet - forming disk by a shock wave from an exploding star and then traveling both inward and outward in the disk.

Yet Brown and Batygin's planet model kept making strange predictions that were borne out by the evidence and difficult to explain by any other cause.

Additionally, the thousands of worlds discovered by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission strongly suggest that «there should be as many small planets like the Earth as there are stars,» Morse explains, meaning that to see one astronomers should not need to build a gargantuan telescope that could peer clear across the galaxy.

Understanding the two phenomena, which are both produced by interactions between charged particles and the planet's magnetic field, may help to explain the variations in the timing of the radio pulses and to shed light on Saturn's geomagnetic workings.

Inside this limit, the planet's tidal forces are strong enough to disintegrate a body held together by its own gravity, thus explaining SL9's fragmentation.

A month later, Agnès Fienga at the Côte d'Azur Observatory in France and her colleagues found evidence that slight perturbations in Saturn's orbit as observed by the Cassini spacecraft could be better explained by the missing planet.

Green explained that at 300 - 700 kilometers depth, the pressure and temperature are so high that rocks in this deep interior of the planet can not break by the brittle processes seen on Earth's surface.

The astronomy teams were led by Lorna Temple, Astrophysics Researcher at Keele University, who explained: «Planet - search teams are only just beginning to find hot - Jupiter planets with hot, fast - rotating host stars.

And now — by putting on the gravity glasses — we can use the measurement values to see deep beneath the surface of our planet,» explains Dr. Johannes Bouman from the German Geodetic Research Institute at TUM.

This effect — caused by neighboring stars that were present when Uranus and Neptune were forming but have since moved away — may explain why these planets don't have gas envelopes like Jupiter and Saturn do.

«The whole atmosphere is kind of being dragged by the planet as the planet rotates, so all this air has some ambient angular momentum,» O'Neill explains.

«And they do say that they looked at all the different types of stellar activity and other things that could generate a spurious Doppler signal at 11 days, but after looking at all that, they concluded the variability in the data is best explained by the presence of a planet.»

Burns says those trends can be explained by the shifting view of the rings as seen from our planet: Six years ago, when Chariklo was in a different part of its orbit, the rings would have been seen edgewise from Earth, an invisible sliver that reflected little or no light in our direction.

By reconstructing enzymes as they might have looked billions of years ago, the research «helps to explain the natural evolutionary history of life on this planet,» says Yousif Shamoo, a biochemist at Rice University in Houston who wasn't part of the study.

Aline Vidotto and her team at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom theorized that the out - of - sync dimming could be explained by a shock wave in the stellar wind, the stream of charged gas particles flowing off the star and immersing the planet.

By using models of how planets shape a debris disc, the team found that «eccentric» versions of the giant planets in the outer solar system could explain the observed properties of the ring.

«So as aerosols cut down sunlight by large amounts,» Ramanathan explains, «they may be spinning down the hydrological cycle of the planet.»

«Brown dwarfs are far easier to study than planets, because they aren't overwhelmed by the brightness of a host star,» Faherty explained.

HR 8799's four planets, each five to 13 times Jupiter's mass, are too far apart to be explained easily by either model, say Christian Marois of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and colleagues.

Could this exception be explained by a major event like the solidification of the planet's inner core?

The team believes a dip in 2011, which reduced the brightness of Tabby's star by up to 15 per cent, can be explained by a massive ringed planet five times the size of Jupiter transiting in front of it.

Bailey and her colleagues ran computer simulations that suggest that the tilt of the eight official planets can be explained by the gravitational influence of Planet Nine «over the 4.5 - billion - years - ish lifetime of the solar system,» Bailey told Space.com.

SEAS research suggests that early Mars may have been warmed intermittently by a powerful greenhouse effect, possibly explaining the presence of water on the planet's surface.

To determine whether the objects on their list were planets rather than other stars, the researchers looked at the shape of the light curve caused by the transits; U-shaped curves generally indicate a planet, while V - shaped curves would usually indicate another star interacting with the one being observed, Kipping explains.

In late 2003, astronomers announced that the latest computer models indicate that the structure of a faint dust disk observed around Vega can be best explained by the presence of Neptune - sized and Jupiter - sized planets orbiting at distances roughly similar to those held by their apparent «cousins» in the Solar System (more discussion below — ROE press release).

«It's a planet by any of the typical definitions based on mass,» OSU astronomy professor Scott Gaudi, co-lead author of the study, explained «but its atmosphere is almost certainly unlike any other planet we've ever seen just because of the temperature of its day side.»

Several formation mechanisms have been proposed to explain Sedna's extreme orbit, including interactions with planet - sized bodies, stellar encounters, multiple stellar fly - bys in a stellar birth cluster, interstellar capture, and perturbations from a wide - binary solar companion.

When it was discovered, this phenomenon could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics, and for many years it was hypothesized that another planet might exist in an orbit even closer to the Sun to account for this perturbation (another explanation postulated a slight oblateness of the Sun).

By learning about the layering of these materials, scientists can explain why some rocky planets turn into an «Earth» rather than a «Mars» or «Venus» — a factor that is essential to understanding where life can appear in the universe.

This could only be explained by the scenario in which the newly formed massive planet cleared the gas as it travelled around their orbit, but trapped the dust particles further out [5].

The story unfolds in three levels: the journey of the recording team from Madrid (Spain) to Toulouse (France), the laboratory experiments explained by its principal investigators and the journey of the cosmic dust grains since they are born in the envelope of an evolved star until they become part of something bigger (a star, a planet or, why not, a living being).