Sentences with phrase «into tilted orbits»

Not exact matches

The tilt of the solar system's orbital plane has long befuddled astronomers because of the way the planets formed: as a spinning cloud slowly collapsing first into a disk and then into objects orbiting a central star.

Once the star's gravity grabs hold of a hot Jupiter's atmosphere, the same forces that pull a tilted planet into line should cause the planet's orbit to decay, eventually leading to the star gobbling it up.

This technique yields a minimum mass for each planet but not a firm mass, because it can't take into account the tilt of a planet's orbit.

The tilt has long confounded astronomers because of the way the planets formed: as a spinning cloud slowly collapsing first into a disk and then into objects orbiting a central star, according to Caltech (who can say this better than I can):