Sentences with phrase «from outside the solar system»

Interestingly, the team found that cosmic rays were at work deeper down below the surface — meaning at least some of the moon's water comes from outside the solar system.

A pair of neutrinos detected in Antarctica may be the first of these ghostly particles seen coming from outside the solar system since 1987.

«It's remarkable that we've now seen for the first time a physical object from outside our Solar System,» says lead author Dr Alan Jackson, a postdoc at the Centre for Planetary Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough in Ontario, Canada.

Findings from RPS have provided new insights into spatial gradients (the physical distribution of energetic particles) in the inner belt, as well as a look at how protons from outside the solar system gain entry to the Earth's magnetosphere.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Having discovered an asteroid from outside the solar system for the first time, scientists are hoping there are more out there — illuminating the path to extrasolar worlds.

Even so, viewed from outside our solar system, Jupiter's transit only diminishes our sun's brightness by 1 to 2 percent [source: Ames Research Center, FAQ].

An object originating from outside the Solar System has been detected passing through the Sun's real estate.

Science fiction readers will remember Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, where a cylindrical spacecraft from outside the Solar System passes through it at high speed.

Some have proposed that debris from outside the solar system could even be responsible for spawning life on Earth.

They are from outside the solar system with energies far in excess of anything Sol can produce.

No, cosmic rays from outside the solar system [and even an asteroid] regularly penetrate to the inner part of the System, e.g. to the Earth, where 30 cosmic rays hit your body very second.

Cosmic rays from outside the solar system can also inject ions into lunar rocks, causing chemical changes that create water.

An icy comet just hurtled past the sun on a strange path that suggests it came from outside our solar system, making it the first such interloper we've ever spotted

And earlier this year the IceCube project announced that it had found 28 neutrinos so energetic that they must have come from outside the solar system.

The unusual trajectory of an asteroid, called A / 2017 U1, suggests it came from outside the solar system and is now on its way out again.

Next, the researchers plan to measure the abundance of oxygen isotopes within the grains; if they differ from the sun's, the discrepancy would confirm that the dust comes from outside the solar system.

A team of researchers believed those rays, which come from outside our solar system, may have caused the Apollo astronauts» circulatory systems to function incorrectly.

«This is the first indication of very high - energy neutrinos coming from outside our solar system,» said University of Wisconsin - Madison Physics Professor Francis Halzen, principal investigator of IceCube.

Researchers were also fairly sure it was from outside our Solar System, based on its trajectory and speed.

At the same time, the spacecraft also detected a corresponding uptick in galactic cosmic rays, ultrafast particles that come from outside the solar system.

Gerry is joined by several other scientists and engineers in the CSR looking for artificial signals coming from outside our solar system (SETI).

Astronomers have confirmed that an object that recently passed by our planet is from outside our Solar System — the first interstellar asteroid that's ever been observed.

They arrived at that date because that's when Voyager recorded a permanent drop in heliosphere - produced particles and an increase in galactic cosmic rays from outside the solar system.

This is because the solar wind modulates the flux of high energy particles coming from outside the solar system.