Sentences with phrase «of space dust»
A distant cloud of space dust is helping scientists confirm how stars likely formed in the early universe.
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When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and debris.
These craters formed as tiny pieces of space dust crashed into the moon
University of Leicester researcher involved in study examining first returned samples of space dust from beyond our solar system
Life on our planet might have originated from biological particles brought to Earth in streams of space dust, a study suggests.
The research from the University of Edinburgh calculated how powerful flows of space dust — which can move at up to 70 km a second — could collide with particles in our atmospheric system.
Each Perseid meteor is part of a swarm of sand - grain - size bits of space dust that create a white - hot trail of incandescent gas when they crash into Earth's atmosphere, about 50 to 100 miles up.
Last year, we used the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory to study the intricate network of gas filaments to show how exploding stars are creating huge amounts of space dust.»
This hypothesis posits that the solar system began 4.5 billion years ago with grains of space dust that pooled into eddies.
Cosmologists use a combination of such measurements to build a so - called distance ladder for gauging how far away a given object is from Earth, but there are some unresolved discrepancies that are likely due to the presence of space dust and imperfections in calculations.
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MOCA's commitment to Rosenquist is evident in both the significant body of Rosenquist's work in MOCA's Permanent Collection, including a recent acquisition of Space Dust from the series Welcome to the Water, and with the recent exhibition Time Zones: James Rosenquist and Printmaking at the Millennium in 2016.
This warping is unavoidable; whenever anything — be it you, me, a piece of space dust or a photon of light — tries to travel through the universe in a straight line, it actually follows a trajectory that is curved by any mass and energy in the vicinity.
Astronomers who study natural phenomena, like clouds of space dust or dying stars, can ignore everything that looks artificial.