Sentences with phrase «in orbiting pairs»

Fortunately, they do indeed often travel in orbiting pairs, and do sometimes, for a very brief period before they merge, orbit rapidly enough to produce gravitational waves that LIGO and VIRGO can observe.

Not exact matches

You might find adding a little ground corriander to the soup, paired with the flavoring of the greek tzatziki will really put this in a new orbit.

In 1974, U.S. astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a pair of radio - emitting neutron stars called pulsars orbiting each other.

Venus orbits the Sun, but not exactly on the same plane as the Earth, so it only passes directly between us and the Sun — what astronomers call a transit; think of it as a «mini-eclipse» — every century or so (and then, due to the odd dance of gravity, it happens in pairs separated by 8 years).

Like Luke Skywalker's planet «Tatooine» in Star Wars, Kepler - 16b orbits a pair of stars.

How these winds work is largely mysterious, but important insights come from stormy encounters where two massive stars orbit in a tight pair.

The situation, says former LHCb spokesperson and University of Oxford physicist Guy Wilkinson, is roughly analogous to a planetary system in which the light quark is akin to a planet orbiting a binary pair of massive stars.

Tito's not - for - profit mission, called Inspiration Mars, was initially supposed to use entirely private or commercial vehicles to launch a pair of astronauts into Earth orbit in early 2018.

In a pair of papers in the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companioIn a pair of papers in the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companioin the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companioin Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companion.

But in 1992 a pair of astronomers turned up 1992 QB1, a body about 200 kilometers wide circling the sun at a distance of about 6.5 billion kilometers, well beyond Neptune's orbit.

The pair orbit each other once every 4.8 hours, shining in X-rays and occasionally sending jets of material, or flares, outwards at close to the speed of light.

Astronomer George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used adaptive optics on the 10 - meter Keck telescope, also on Mauna Kea, to reveal orbiting pairs of black holes in 16 distant galaxies.

They might also provide better understanding into the history of the pair: If the orbit is dramatically elongated, that might suggest MK 2 was gravitationally captured by Makemake long after the two formed in separate regions of space, whereas a circular orbit could bolster the notion that the pair formed together.

Ordinarily, those transits will occur at regular intervals, like celestial clockwork, but oddities in Kepler 19 b's transit times suggest the influence of the other half of the pair — a larger, unseen planet also orbiting Kepler 19 and perturbing the motion of its neighbor.

The work is based on data gathered by GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), a pair of NASA spacecraft that orbited the moon in 2012.

A U.S. - British team has found a closely orbiting pair of twin stars in the Orion Nebula, where one star is hundreds of thousands of years older than the other.

A pair of icy or rocky protoplanets, forming in a kind of wide binary system in which they orbit each other far apart, seems more likely.

A bit more than half of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way travel in pairs, nearly all of them orbiting so close that they can't be distinguished individually except by powerful telescopes.

Over the past two years, a pair of intrepid probes — Cassini, which has orbited Saturn since July 2004, and that satellite's envoy, Huygens, which plummeted onto Titan's surface in January 2005 — have discovered features that are uncannily reminiscent of Earth.

But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations.

And on Monday a pair of studies set to be published in the Astrophysical Journal were unveiled, each claiming the discovery of a different super-Earth orbiting nearby sunlike stars.

In the early 1970s, Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a pair of neutron stars, like the one seen here, orbiting each other.

The problem is exacerbated by the lack of an adequate replacement for a pair of Earth - observation satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory and Glory, which failed on launch in the past two years.

PULSAR PAIR A system of two radio beam — emitting pulsars locked in tight orbits, illustrated here, is an ideal test bed for measuring gravitational waves and other effects of general relativity.

So has the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or Stereo, a pair of satellites tagging along with Earth in its orbit around the sun — one just ahead of our planet, one just behind.

In 1974, radio astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, then of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found just such a system: a pair of dense neutron stars in orbit around each otheIn 1974, radio astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, then of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found just such a system: a pair of dense neutron stars in orbit around each othein orbit around each other.

There are no specific imaging targets in mind, although near the closest approach of the first orbit the orbiter will be flying over the Noctis Labyrinthus region and it will attempt to obtain a stereo pair.

In 2010, a pair of closely orbiting binary stars was spotted surrounded by what could be the debris of former planets.

However, the pair travel in an eccentric orbit (e = 0.28) around each other, and so their separation actually varies between 2.6 and 4.2 AUs in an orbit that takes 16.2 years to complete.

However, the pair travel in an eccentric orbit (e = 0.28) around each other, and so their separation actually varies between 2.6 and 4.2 AUs.

The object's core, near the orbiting pair of stars, showed changes in the brightness of its radio emission.

Recently, he was the first author of a study confirming the long held notion that Proxima is in a gravitationally bound orbit around the Alpha Centauri AB pair (Kervella, Thévenin & Lovis, A&A, 598, L7).

Astronomers first realized the bright star Alpha Centauri was a tightly orbiting pair in 1689, and Proxima Centauri was first spotted in 1915.

From the perspective of an observer on Earth, the orbit of Star A and the BC tight binary pair exhibit a very elongated and narrow ellipse whose separation has varied from 4.7» in 1880 to less than 0.4» in 1969 (Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, 1937; A. Gennaro, 1940; L. Bennendijk, 1955; Worley and Heintz, 1983; and Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1963 to 1997; among others).

The planet is comparable to Saturn in mass and size, and is on a nearly circular 229 - day orbit around its two p... ▽ More We report the detection of a planet whose orbit surrounds a pair of low - mass stars.

In fact, the apparent noncoplanarity of the orbits of star pairs Aab and Babc?

VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy 0402 +379, showing the two cores, labeled C1 and C2, identified as a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around each other.

Instead, the team has demonstrated it is a pair of binary stars that had been orbiting the black hole in tandem and merged together into an extremely large star, cloaked in gas and dust, and choreographed by the black hole's powerful gravitational field.

The stars in the binary pairs orbit around each other, and the two pairs also circle each other like choreographed ballerinas.

They include a pair of stars in orbit around each other, with circumstellar disks surrounding each star and a circumbinary torus and disk that orbits the combination.

Eventually, the pair saw that if they ran simulations using a hypothetical massive planet in what's called an anti-aligned orbit — a path in which the planet's perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, is 180 degrees from all of the other objects and known planets in the solar system — their six strangely behaving objects moved in the strange alignment that they actually do in reality.

On the other hand, the wide binary pairs Aab and Bab are separated by an «average» distance of about 21.2 AUs (of a semi-major axis of 2.533» at 27.3 ly) in an elliptical orbit (e = 0.412) of 59.9 years, so that the two star pairs get as close as 12.5 AUs and as far away as 39.9 AUs (Wulff Dieter Heintz, 1996; revising earlier earlier estimates, including Mason et al, 1995).

He cited the example of NASA's GRACE mission, launched in 2002, uses microwaves to measure variations in the distance between a pair of satellites that are positioned about 137 miles apart in orbit.

Their findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, show that the pair are indeed orbiting one another.

PREDICTION 32: Because the solar system is slightly «heavier» than previously thought, some comet pairs listed in Table 18 are the same comet seen on successive orbits.

Orbiting around the idea of how technology facilitates the increasing isolation of the very people it claims to connect, Men, Women & Children hones in on a selection of suburbanites in present day Texas, including a jaded married couple played by Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt, a pair of disaffected teenagers played by Ansel Elgort and Kaitlyn Dever, and two contrasting mothers, one of whom (Jennifer Garner) tirelessly monitors and restricts her daughter's internet and phone use, while the other (Judy Greer) prostitutes her nubile daughter's image on a subscription website.

«To sense gravity in free - fall, GRACE will deploy a pair of identical satellites in the same orbit — one satellite 220 km (137 miles) ahead of the other.

Along with the MetOp AVHRR in the 2130 orbit (9:30 pm local ascending node — «midmorning» refers to the 9:30 am local descending node), the NPP / MetOp pair will provide continuity of civil environmental imaging, but the deletion of the NPOESS 2130 orbit results in reduced capability, given that the AVHRR on MetOp will only address (and not meet) a fraction of the VIIRS EDRs.