Sentences with phrase «near the sun»

During the solar system's infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet - forming region near the sun.

The finding provides more information on the early days of our solar system about 4.4 billion years ago, when the zone near the sun had several planetary embryos.

Not too near the sun's heat, not too far from its warmth, in a narrow habitable zone in which water is liquid and life can thrive.

Trying to observe near the sun is difficult, but a planet is not exactly an easy thing to hide.

And our fish seem so happy near the sun, too!

Ice gives comets their characteristic tails: As a comet passes near the sun, the heat warms the ice, causing it to sublimate, releasing gas and dust.

As comets near the sun, they start to melt, releasing a tail of dust and gas that stretches out a pretty long way, sometimes hundreds of miles.

In 1919, astronomers photographed stars near the sun during a solar eclipse.

Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe was fortunate to come from a family who stressed the importance of female education.

Located near the Sun Valley Lodge, the Guest Cottage vacation rental is like your own home on the mountain.

Of course, proving Einstein right required the careful measurement by Arthur Eddington and colleagues of starlight bending near the sun during a solar eclipse in 1919.

It's located near Sun Valley amid some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States.

There is also a small chance Philae could wake up as comet 67P nears the sun, but the spacecraft needs energy to heat up its batteries before they can start charging, so that may not be possible.

Finding an affordable car loan near Sun City is easy courtesy of the folks at DCH Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram FIAT of Temecula.

Georgia O'Keeffe was born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887.

To make the modeled zodiacal cloud as dense as the real one, the dust had to come from comets falling apart, not just those shedding dust near the sun, the team reports in the 20 April issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

A group of researchers believes that contrary to a common model sunspots form near the Sun's surface.

I'm out having a wonderful even - keeled ride on a zigzagging road near sun - flecked mountains, and this throng of cyclists — let's call them a biker gang — spoils all of the fun.

Let me know, when they know, what caused us to be perfectly placed near the sun to sustain life... let me know when they figure out why so far in the whole galaxy there is no evidence of life except here and when I say life I mean human..

Like Superman recharging near the sun, Catholics derive energy from Christmas the way Jews do from Passover, and Episcopalians from gin.

A simple pinhole projector, which doesn't require looking anywhere near the sun, might be better.

Stars yanked from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (red) loop around the Milky Way and dive near our sun (yellow dot).

A single bright object — the system's innermost planet — is just visible near the sun, fading fast in the morning light.

«Looking around the very nearest Sun - like stars is the next logical step in the search for another Earth,» says Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who is developing planet - imaging technologies for Project Blue.

«Our ultimate goal is to determine what is the least massive brown dwarf that nature can form and how many of these cold brown dwarfs exist near the sun,» Cushing added.

Gas churning near the sun's surface propels sound waves inward, where they skip and reflect until the entire sun hums in a complex, low - pitched cacophony.

This speed of data return could make a significant difference, given that SEPs can move at nearly the speed of light — so their total travel time can be less than an hour from the time they're accelerated near the sun to when they reach Earth.

«Large coronal hole near the sun's north pole.»

The new study reveals that three streams of stars of all ages criss - cross near the sun.

Warning: It will be relatively close to the sun, so look for it from a location where the sun itself is blocked, and never point binoculars or a telescope near the sun without a professional - grade light filter.

«It gets Newton's First Law,» Nemenman says, «the fact that in order to predict the possible trajectory of a planet, whether it stays near the sun or flies off into infinity, just knowing its initial position is not enough.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that of the dozen or so single stars nearest the sun nearly half appear to have dark companions with a mass between one and 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

On the other hand, the levels of carbon monoxide and methanol in the coma might have changed over time, especially because Jupiter - family comets spend more time near the Sun than Oort Cloud comets do.

On one typical day, as the first instrument traveled around Earth, it spotted nothing unusual, but the second, following just an hour later, observed an increase in oxygen particles speeding around Earth's dayside — the side nearest the sun.

Observations near the Sun and at Earth's orbit have been interpreted as a demonstration that solar wind does not expand adiabatically from the Sun as would have been expected for this near collisionless environment.

The apparent change in Lovejoy's D - to - H may be caused by the higher levels of energetic processes — such as radiation near the sun — that might have altered the characteristics of water in surface layers of the comet.

Throughout the Milky Way Galaxy (and even near the Sun itself), astronomers have discovered stars that are well evolved or even approaching extinction, or both, as well as occasional stars that must be very young or still in the process of formation.

Einstein's theory states that time and space are not absolute but relative: time runs faster in high altitudes but slower at fast velocities, as can be measured in the mountains or with satellite clocks; and space can be curved by the gravity of large masses, as was proven in the 1919 solar eclipse when star positions near the Sun seemed to have «shifted», but in reality only the light rays had been curved by the Sun's mass.

The best - observed dust clouds near the Sun have masses of several hundred solar masses and sizes ranging from a maximum of about 200 light - years to a fraction of a light - year.

They are brightest near the Sun and sometimes visible in daylight.

While today's planet - hunting techniques have favored finding exoplanets near their sun, the outer regions of a planetary system have gone largely unexplored.

With the soulful Near the Sun, we are reminded that our ship remains battered but a powerful voice beckons us into calm waters.

Sun Prairie students wanting to attend charter schools near Sun Prairie have several options to choose from.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it had opened an engineering analysis into nearly 600,000 Grand Cherokees and Durangos, from model years 2011 through 2013, because a potential short circuit could cause a fire near the sun visors of those vehicles.