Sentences with phrase «faint rings»

The brightness of the planet's faint rings and dark moons has been enhanced for visibility.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

And at the root of all this tangled physics is the place where the corona starts, right above the sun's surface — the faint ring made visible during an eclipse.

Jupiter is a gaseous planet with a very faint ring system.

The Jovian system is a busy place: Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field, a faint ring system and over 60 rocky moons orbiting around it.

E-ring A faint ring encircling the planet Saturn.

He dialled and they heard the phone inside make a faint ringing noise.

Not exact matches

The possible ring appears as a faint streak near Jupiter's moon Himalia in an image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Four spacecraft have visited the planet and revealed a complex ring system, with the four previously known rings accompanied by multiple fainter ones.

... The thin ring «extends to more than twice the known ring diameter» (or a total of 340,000 miles), and is so faint it can not be photographed except with a large telescope.

Therefore, the B and A rings, with their dense populations of particles, always seem bright in the visible wavelengths, while the Cassini Division and the C ring appear faint.

The sun is directly behind the planet — an alignment not visible from Earth — which allowed astronomers to discover two faint outer hoops, never before seen, and to observe in unprecedented detail the microscopic particles that make up the rings.

And in 2007, the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to Pluto imaged two wave sets spiraling through each other in the faint, dusty ring of Jupiter.

The F ring remains too faint to see here without enhancing the contrast of the image.

From the inside out, the «Cassini division» in faint red at left is followed by the A ring in its entirety in this ultraviolet - light image.

In this view, all that can be seen of Saturn's D ring is the faint and narrow arc as it stretches from top right of the image.

This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn's faint G ring.

The bright spiral disk may also be surrounded by a much fainter, outer ring of stars, possibly stripped from at least one, former satellite galaxy.

This 6 - atom, aromatic, ringed molecule provides a vital clue in identifying the source of a faint infrared glow permeating the Milky Way.

The new dusty rings are extremely faint and required long exposures to capture their image.

We confirm the previously detected double ring structure peaking at 0.18» (~ 21 au) and 0.56» (~ 66 au), and marginally detect a faint third gap at 0.70» -0.73» (~ 82 - 85 au).

It also observed Jupiter's ring system, which is much fainter than Saturn's, and composed mostly of dust.

Neptune's rings have been given names: the outermost is Adams (which contains three prominent arcs now named Liberty, Equality and Fraternity), next is an unnamed ring co-orbital with Galatea, then Leverrier (whose outer extensions are called Lassell and Arago) and finally the faint but broad Galle.

The 27 - minute film, an exploration of medical torture that enlists seizure - quick strobe effects, jarring, ring - modulated vocals, and loud high - end - heavy noise passages, is probably not for the faint of heart.

As for having «less time than you might think», that rang a very faint and distant bell:

During our tests, this model not only excelled in image quality, providing great views of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, and faint detail in the spiral arms of the Andromeda galaxy, but also offered the best mix of portability and ease of assembly and use for its price.

According to Wirecutter and Twitter reports, the device's ringed bottom is leaving ring stains — yes, actual rings — ranging from very faint to very obvious on wooden tables.