Sentences with phrase «of one's orbit»

Next year he'll be way out of orbit for us.

One face of an orbiting planet around a red dwarf will be constantly facing the star, meaning the planet's spin matches its orbital period.

Would - be space tourists have been waiting for years for the chance to finally take their dream vacation of orbiting around our little, blue planet.

The researchers believe the planet's gravity then pulled small rocky or icy bodies out of the main disc and into the plane of its orbit.

The black hole — which is buried within a giant cluster containing thousands of stars — marks the first time astronomers have detected a black hole with the help of an orbiting star.

To study the oceans, scientists rely on a network of orbiting satellites and surface vessels.

These debris disks often show sharply defined rings or spiral patterns, features that could signal the presence of orbiting planets.

In recent years astronomers have observed 18 stars whose motions indicate the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.

However, this type of orbit presents challenges as well.

Based on those changes, researchers can give a mass estimate, and the frequency gives an idea of the orbit.

Use the radius of the orbit and the change in position to determine the distance to the object.

The mutant fuel literally drops out of the sky, raining down from the fiery remains of an orbiting laboratory.

She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.

This created a second wave packet from the same electron, in effect splitting it into two wave packets at opposite ends of the orbit.

But a slow decay of its orbit increases the chances that it will break into large chunks containing toxic batteries and fuel.

So, if the team's model is correct, the signature of the orbiting planet will not be seen for another 15 years until its orbit brings it back into view.

The trick to finding the iron beneath hundreds of kilometers of rock is its effects not only on the motions of an orbiting satellite but also on the motions of the planet itself.

The optical camera system on board is capable of the highest resolution of any orbiting civilian spacecraft, at 1.4 metres per pixel.

However, even if a planet was formed around such a multiple star system, it could spin out of its system due to the instability of the orbit.

Stars are responsible for manufacturing and distributing heavy elements such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, and their characteristics are intimately tied to the characteristics of their orbiting planetary systems.

Students will look at the name of the object, type of orbit, composition, shape, and atmosphere.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity superceded Newton's Theory of Gravity because of observations of the orbits of Mercury.

But what is the most likely shape of the orbits in between?

Even if this martian warming turns out to be true, it may just be a natural effect of the shape of the orbit of Mars.

That is particularly surprising because the outermost points of their orbits move around the solar system, and they travel at different rates.

Some candidates can be checked further using another technique that looks for «wobbles» in the star caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting body, but Kepler 452 b is too distant and small for that.

According to the Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binaries, Stars A and B move around each other at an average distance of 7.33 AUs (semi-major axis a = 0.58») in a very eccentric (e = 0.43) orbit that takes 19.5 years to complete.

The above diagrams show the relative sizes of the orbits of the eight planets (plus Pluto) from a perspective somewhat above the ecliptic (hence their non-circular appearance).

NASA has already acquired satellite data from the first year of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Satellite, which was designed to measure CO2 from the top of the Earth's atmosphere to the surface.

Our Milky Way galaxy hosts about 150 globular clusters, most of them orbiting in the galactic outskirts.

According to the first recorded description of such a headache, dating from the 1700s, the sufferer felt «as if his eye was slowly being forced out of its orbit with so much pain that he nearly went mad.»

The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.

Astronomers have seen the star emit a superflare that briefly made it 68 times brighter than usual, and could expose any life on the surface of its orbiting Earth - sized planet to fatal levels of UV radiation.

One theory says that runaway stars start running away when one star of a pair of orbiting stars, known as a binary system, goes supernova and ejects its mate.

The Doppler technique can reveal the orbit and the minimum mass of an orbiting body, but no details of its nature.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

This close resemblance can be explained by the fact that given their similar distance from the sun, they would have formed from the same kind of orbiting proto - planetary material.

But in subsequent years new observations of the orbit didn't fit Bouvard's math, either.

In 2003 controllers at Johns Hopkins University landed the NEAR spacecraft on the asteroid Eros, proving we could do it and giving us a huge leg up on a mission that would push an asteroid out of its orbit by landing on it and setting off a rocket engine.

The team could then plot the positions of the stars and the tilt of the orbit relative to our viewpoint.

The planets must nudge one another via gravity and migrate into those orbital paths until the lengths of their orbits form a neat ratio.