Sentences with phrase «moving in circular orbits»

The views of Copernicus did not depart completely from the Aristotelian picture of the universe in that he still regarded the planets as moving in circular orbits round the sun.

Earth follows the curved shape of the warped space around the sun, which is why it moves in a circular orbit; this description has been experimentally verified to high precision.

Not exact matches

Based on the Gemini spectra of the center of NGC 1600, most stars inside the sphere of influence of the black hole — a region about 3,000 light - years in radius — are traveling on circular orbits around the black hole, with very few moving radially inward or outward.

Currently designated 2004 XR190 (or XR 190) but nicknamed «Buffy,» the object takes about 440 years to move around the Sun at an average distance (semi-major axis) of 57.4 AUs in a relatively circular orbit (e = 0.11) that is inclined about 46.7 ° to the ecliptic.

It moves around Star A at an average distance of less than 0.05 AUs (a semi-major axis well within Mercury's orbital distance) in a near circular orbit (e = 0.23 + / - 0.015) that takes 3.312 days to complete.

According to the Ninth Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (for HD 210027), Stars A and B move around each other at an average distance of only 0.051 AUs (semi-major axis a = 0.00407 + / - 0.27») in a highly circular (e ~ 0) orbit that takes just 10.2 days to complete.

X-rays are produced in X-ray tubes by the deceleration of energetic electrons (bremsstrahlung) as they hit a metal target or by accelerating electrons moving at relativistic velocities in circular orbits (synchrotron radiation; see above Continuous spectra of electromagnetic radiation).