Sentences with phrase «flew around the comet»
The oxygen levels also varied in step with water levels as Rosetta flew around the comet, suggesting that ice and oxygen in 67P's atmosphere are coming from the same places in its nucleus.
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Astronomers have seen massive stars fall toward some central object and whip around it, like a comet around the sun, and fly back out.
Everything flying around space is pretty weird, but this one is extra weird, which is why astronomers are so excited about it — in fact, although scientists first dubbed it a comet, they're now not even sure what it is.
On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.
If comets and other bodies, accelerated both on their approach to the Sun and as they moved away from it, they would have gotten faster and faster until the solar system flew apart, and we would not now be around to discuss it.