Sentences with phrase «known objects in the solar system»

Named Sedna, after the Inuit goddess who created the animals of the sea, it is by far the most distant known object in our solar system.

Sedna's odd, far - flung orbit made it the most distant known object in the solar system at the time.

No known objects in the Solar System have such extreme dimensions.

The large ridges or grooves seen in early images appear to fully encircle Vesta, and the northern hemisphere is believed to have some of the heaviest cratering of known objects in the Solar System (NASA news release and science news; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

Not exact matches

Its name loosely means «a messenger that reaches out from the distant past» in Hawaiian, and is the first known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System.

Here are maps for the positions of known natural objects in the inner, outer and distant solar system in January 2016

«Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf: Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar system.»

We knew it had an extremely bright surface — it's the brightest object in the solar system.

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.

«We know that the first primordial objects in the solar system were very porous,» Bland said.

Enceladus also was known to be the brightest, whitest object in the solar system.

At three times the distance of Pluto from the sun, DeeDee is the second-most distant known trans - Neptunian object with a confirmed orbit in our solar system.

We now know that comets begin in the Oort Cloud, which is a vast cloud of ice and dust objects at the outer edge of our solar system.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has released a video shot from the perspective of Earth, showing our Moon and Sun replaced with other planets in the solar system and well known stars, highlighting the scale and beauty of some of the best known astronomical objects.

The nuclei of these galaxies change brightness every few weeks, so we know that the objects in the center must be relatively small (about the size of a solar system).

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.

To get a sense of what's out there, have a look at this mesmerizing graphic from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics showing what's known to be orbiting in the inner solar system (with more objects being revealed almost every month):

The calculations agree quite well with the observations for most of the objects in our solar system, except for Venus which is known to harbour a strong GHE and has a hotter surface than Mercury despite being about twice as far away from the sun.