Sentences with phrase «nearly circular paths»
Almost all the stars in the Milky Way's disk were thought to orbit in orderly, nearly circular paths around the galaxy's core, but now astronomers find that many of the sun's neighbors have strayed from this course.
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Many of the newfound worlds follow highly elliptical paths that take them close to and then far away from their star, quite unlike the nearly circular orbits typical in our solar system.
8 Changes in Revolution, Rotation, and Tilt (Page 271) Over a period of about 100,000 years, the orbital path of Earth changes from nearly circular to elliptical and back again.