Sentences with phrase «far outside our solar system»

The pulse also knocked the electron into a highly elliptical path around the nucleus, rather like a comet that orbits the Sun but spends most of its time far outside the Solar System.

This object wasn't orbiting the sun, but paying us a visit from far outside our solar system.

Not exact matches

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

Breaking News NASA: Three planets found are some of best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our solar system.

All of which means that Proxima b is far more than the nearest neighboring planet outside our solar system.

The first indications of life outside our solar system won't be like a sci - fi film — they'll be chemical traces of the elements of life in the atmosphere of a far - away planet.

The simulations are necessary to establish models of the atmospheres of far - distant worlds, models that can be used to look for signs of life outside the solar system.

This means the Mercury — Jupiter distance will vary by a solar diameter or so as well, in addition to the normal variation due to their orbits, because Jupiter orbits the solar system barycentre more closely than the Sun — Jupiter barycentre (due to its possession of ~ 3/4 of the solar system mass outside the Sun, the Sun retreats from the barycentre to counteract Jupiter's mass — retreating further when Saturn is in conjunction, when (additionally) Jupiter is pulled towards Saturn).