Sentences with phrase «icy outer regions»
Not exact matches
Vinković's model «shows how dust grains propelled by radiation pressure can travel from the disk's hottest regions to its icy outer edges,» says astronomer Dániel Apai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
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New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.
In the 1990s, thinking about Pluto shifted again with the realization that it is just one member of the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of thousands (if not millions) of tiny icy objects that circle the sun in the outer regions of the solar system.
«Some of the same processes that take place in deep space may occur in these icy bodies in the supercold outer regions of the solar system,» Allamandola says.
Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.
Both this molecule and its simpler cousin hydrogen cyanide (HCN) were found in the cold outer reaches of the star's newly formed disk, in a region that astronomers believe is analogous to our own Kuiper Belt — the realm of icy planetesimals and comets beyond Neptune.