Sentences with phrase «giant rings of»

High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries — and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth.

Not exact matches

The photos include close - ups of the gaseous giant, its famous rings, and its enigmatic moons — including Titan, which has its own atmosphere, and icy Enceladus, which has a subsurface ocean that could conceivably harbor microbial life.

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods could put the e-commerce giant in the food delivery ring for good.

The crust folded over the entire outer ring of apples, leaving just a small circle in the middle, which made it look a bit more like a giant danish.

He's the only all time NY Giant great without a ring of course it's gonna sting.

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.

A team of scientists in Hawaii has developed a way to chart the chronology of a turtle's life using the growth lines in its shell, much like the life span of a giant sequoia might be measured in tree rings.

The giant ring spans about four times the width of our solar system.

When British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he took notice of the giant kelp forests ringing the islands.

It's been a marathon performance: 20 years in space, more than 200 orbits around Saturn, and hundreds of thousands of images of the giant planet, its splashy rings and its many moons.

Two days before plunging into Saturn, Cassini took a mosaic image of the gas giant, its rings and its moons.

The giant machine would dwarf all of its predecessors (see «Lord of the rings»).

Astronomers once pictured the Kuiper belt as a giant ring - shaped collection of bodies along a disklike plane, called the ecliptic, in which Earth and all the other major planets orbit.

Inside the giant doughnut - shaped building that houses the synchrotron, a high energy electron beam runs at close to the speed of light in a storage ring 844 metres in circumference, shielded by thick concrete walls.

The physicist's theory of general relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year, is responsible for putting a giant cosmic ring on a galaxy hidden at the centre of this image.

On other occasions the dome was transformed into a giant beanie cap with propeller (1996), banded with a giant ring engraved with Elvish calligraphy from the opening of the Lord of the Rings movie (2001), and has served as pedestal for a full - scale model of Kitty Hawk, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers» flight (2003).

The rings of Saturn are one of the most spectacular sights in the sky, and less prominent rings have also been found around the other giant planets.

Robin Canup came to the moon problem from studies of planetary rings such as those girding the gas giants.

Eventually the collisions led to a war of relative giants, like sumo wrestlers knocking each other out of the orbital ring.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

This gal thinks scientists are cooler than rock stars: Shirley Ann Jackson, recites Lia in an excited crescendo, «explores the invisible particles that make up everything in the universe, including you and me and your computer and Limburger cheese and the rings of Saturn and even giant squids!»

Many of the moons in the solar system could have been spawned from giant rings around planets.

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.

The most recent Hubble observations show that the physical shockwave from the giant blast is just now reaching the innermost of three mysterious gas rings circling the dead star at a distance of two - thirds of a light year.

It's a polymer made of repeated units of two different molecules linked together: a giant ring - shaped molecule called beta - cyclodextrin that's made from cornstarch, and a fluorine - rich molecule called decafluorobiphenyl, or DFB.

Recently detected ripples in the gas giant's rings carry signatures of the planet's interior structure, offering new insights into what lies far beneath Saturn's cloud tops.

Subtle vibrations in those rings are helping scientists explore the structure of the gas giant's interior.

Galactic magnetic fields, they suggest, are produced by a ring of electrically charged gas rotating around a giant black hole at the center of a galaxy.

This scenario could explain why Saturn's rings are made of different stuff from those of other gas giants.

Whizzing asteroids and comets have battered Earth and all the other solid bodies of our solar system over the eons, but the ethereal rings of the giant planets seemed immune.

The orbiter, meanwhile, kept cruising through the Saturn system, studying the giant planet, its rings and its diverse panoply of moons.

The Cassini mission to Saturn has been one of the most successful planetary missions ever, revealing the ringed giant and its moons as never before.

Cassini Probe Spots Weird Waves in Saturn's Rings: NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a spectacular photo of a perplexing wave structure in one of Saturn's rings as the probe headed into its final days at the gas giant.

This gaseous, giant, outer planet has a visible ring system and over 20 moons, the largest of which is Titania.

Before meeting its fiery demise in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15, NASA's groundbreaking Cassini mission to Saturn had spent 13 years redefining our view of the beautiful ringed gas giant — but its discoveries went well beyond pure science.

New insights to Saturn's beautiful rings were gleaned, and a huge diversity of moons swarming around the gas giants was revealed.

Here's another finding, courtesy of Juno: Unlike Saturn's enigmatic hexagonal (six - sided polygon) cloud structure over the ringed gas giant's north pole, Jupiter's northern cyclones form an octagonal (eight - sided) grouping.

«Giant Hurricane» on Saturn: 1st Images Back from Cassini's Epic Ring Dive: NASA's Cassini spacecraft dove between Saturn and its rings yesterday (April 26), snapping the closest - ever views of Saturn's atmosphere.

NASA, Chandra X-Ray Observatory — ring and larger images (more) Magnetic field interactions between giant stars Aa and Ab are thought to energize the corona of the larger star (Aa), generating more x-rays than would be expected for a single star (more) and creating an x-ray luminosity that is 10,000 times that of the Solar corona.

And, before its fatal plunge through the gas giant's atmosphere, the spacecraft will repeatedly dive through the space between Saturn and its rings, providing scientists best - ever views of the gigantic structures.

Not only did the Cassini spacecraft manage to survive its first dive between Saturn and its rings on Wednesday, but it managed to obtain the closest images of the gas giant's atmosphere to date — including a picture of what...

However, this doesn't mean a mission to Saturn will be off the cards; NASA hinted that a return trip to the ringed gas giant will also be planned in tandem (following in the footsteps of the Cassini Equinox Mission).

Then two years later in 2023, the giant ringed planet should pass in front of the star again, starting the approximately 12 year cycle over.

Uniquely bright compared to the rings of the other gas giants, Saturn's ring system is around 250,000 kilometers wide but in places only a few tens of meters thick.

These findings illustrate that the rings of giant planets are natural by - products of the formation process of the planets in our solar system.

Hadid looked pretty in pink as she (and a giant bouquet of roses) rang in her 22nd birthday in N.Y.C..

From Kate Middleton's to - die - for giant sapphire to the Simpson sisters» super unique ruby rings, gemstones in a rainbow of shades are quickly becoming a girl's best friend.

I am 6» 7» i know thats really tall so i would like it if you not point me out like i am a giant from lord of the rings or something.

Set in the future world of 2020, where human boxing is not allowed and robots are manipulated to be boxers, the alcoholic and washed - up fighter Charlie Kenton, once a promising ex-fighter but now on the skids, handles giant steel robots in the boxing ring in underground venues.