Sentences with phrase «icy debris at»

STIS detected the giant structures as far away as 37 billion miles away from V Hydrae, more than eight times farther away than the Kuiper Belt of icy debris at the edge of our solar system is from the sun.

STIS detected the giant structures as far away as 37 billion miles (60 million kilometers) away from V Hydrae, more than eight times farther away than the Kuiper Belt of icy debris at the edge of our solar system is from the sun.

Not exact matches

Yet icy grains evaporate and collisions produce both gas and dust, so at some level all debris disks must contain some amount of gas.

This past July researchers examining data from Cassini's mass spectrometer announced that the icy debris contains ammonia, a potent antifreeze that could keep water in a liquid state even at the deep - freeze temperatures -LRB--- 136 degrees Fahrenheit) measured near the vents.

Astronomers will continue monitoring Fomalhaut b for decades to come because they may have a chance to observe a planet entering an icy debris belt that is like the Kuiper Belt at the fringe of our own solar system.