Sentences with phrase «orbit around something»

From the movements of a number of nearby stars we have now detected unseen companion bodies in orbit around them that are about as massive as large planets.

You look in the direction of a particular star that, you have heard, has a special planet orbiting around it.

Naturally self - centered creatures, it's hard for preschoolers to grasp that there is a big world and it isn't orbiting around them.

The atom had a nucleus with electrons orbiting around it.

I hear she's so fat other moms orbit around her in her gravitational pull.

Matter has been seen spiralling into a black hole, and the black hole's gravity can cause individual light photons to temporarily go into orbit around it.

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: As we learned more about neutron stars, we found out that about two percent of them have companion stars, and a very small fraction have another neutron star orbiting around them.

Jupiter is also itself the center of a sort of miniature solar system, with dozens of moons orbiting around it.

«How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us.»

CM: «Gravitate» can also be interpreted as the idea of something orbiting around something else.

Ferrell is capably assisted by the talents of Rebecca Hall, Michael Peña, Laura Dern and Christopher C.J. Wallace, who orbit around him in varying capacities.

He creates a gravity that pulls others into an admiring orbit around him.

God does not orbit around us either.

Eventually, the sun tames this wild child, drawing the planet into a tight orbit around it.

We've sent five probes whizzing past it and parked one in a long - term orbit around it, but we just keep running into bigger puzzles.

Most stars near the center manage to stay out of the clutches of the hole, though, simply by virtue of being in ultrafast orbits around it.

Now observing the mass of a black hole (at least indirectly) is easy: you measure how fast things orbit around it, just the same as any other massive astronomical object.

Many theories and speculations of different types have been proposed to explain the unusual light curve of the star, including a mega structure built by aliens orbiting around it.

Rosetta is currently about 100 km (62 mi) from Churyumov — Gerasimenko and will remain in orbit around it for over a year until the comet swings back toward Jupiter.

Our reaction: «Reminiscent of classic LA noirs The Long Goodbye, Inherent Vice and Mulholland Drive this is a story of dashed dreams, and the arrogance of a generation who believes the world orbits around them... And while there's a certain indulgent quality to Silver Lake which smacks of a director handed carte blanche, the film's merits far outweigh its shortcomings.»

You can be in the center of the heavens with these constellations orbiting around you as you level up or get a true bird's eye view of the Skyrim map and fast travel to your favorite locations.

this interactive object embodies the movement of the sun in real time as the earth orbits around it.

Pulsars are the high - density, rapidly spinning corpses of dead stars, raking any planets in orbit around them with searing lances of radiation.

The spacecraft is attempting to do something never done before: to catch up with a comet as it speeds toward the sun and to go into orbit around it, taking all sorts of measurements as the sun's rays and solar wind start to heat it up and blow material off into a comet's characteristic tail.

There's no scientific consensus as to how many of those stars might be like our own Sun, and how many may have Earth - like planets orbiting around them.

The Jovian system is a busy place: Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field, a faint ring system and over 60 rocky moons orbiting around it.

How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us.»

object that orbits around something else.

Rather than focusing solely on Auggie, «Wonder» has the good sense to tell the story of those who orbit around him.

The theory goes that before exploding, the progenitor star has its hydrogen outer coat stolen by a companion star in orbit around it, but astronomers have never before been able to spot the thieving companion because the supernova is so bright.

As a publisher, Dan built a portfolio of seven paid subscription monthly newsletters including THE largest circulation marketing newsletter, THE NO B.S. MARKETING LETTER, as well as a robust product catalog with info - products ranging in price from $ 10 to $ 20,000, in concert with a membership organization of dues paying members spanning the globe, and as satellites in orbit around it, over 200 niche - industry «gurus» each with a business modeled after his.

Since then, scientists have learned that there's around five thousand planets that are about the size of Earth's and that every star in the galaxy has planets that orbit around it.

Remember when the church taught that the earth was the center of the universe and the sun, moon and stars all orbited around us?

In the summer of 2000 I was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine to write about the young gilded special advisers who were working for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown or orbiting around them, or who were close to Peter Mandelson.

A star with a ring of planets orbiting around it — that is the picture we know from our own solar system and from many of the thousands of exoplanets observed in recent years.

Observation, and theoretical evidence suggests that the LMC and SMC have been greatly distorted by tidal interaction with the Milky Way as they orbit around it; streams of neutral hydrogen connect them to the Milky Way and to each other, and both resemble disrupted barred spiral galaxies.

Last May, the team published in Nature the discovery of three Earth - sized planets in orbit around it.

The researchers were able to study the phenomenon in detail after obtaining observation time of the Hubble Space Telescope granted by its director in order to capture images of Saturn at a time when the Cassini probe in orbit around it had poor vision of the planet.

The spacecraft has been chasing the comet for 10 years, and on August 6, the European Space Agency (ESA) released detailed images and data showing that the probe had come within 100 kilometers of the space rock and is ready to enter into orbit around it.

«Virtually all red dwarf stars have at least one planet in orbit around them.»

All five classical planets, from Mercury to Saturn, have had, have or will soon have robotic satellites not just flying by, but remaining in orbit around them, and successful landings have been performed repeatedly on Venus and Mars.

The star gets stretched into long filaments, some of which are consumed by the black hole, while the rest settle into a flat accretion disk in orbit around it.

«Telescopes on Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around it can still do far better than us at present, but we are still a long way away from Mars,» says Nicolas Thomas, the camera's principal investigator at the CSH.

Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status, astronomers have discovered yet another moon in orbit around it, bringing its entourage to four.

Rosetta has traveled 6.2 billion km in an attempt to do something never done before: to catch up with a comet, 67 P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, as it speeds toward the sun and to go into orbit around it.

It is highly improbable that an object would appear to be moving with Pluto unless it was really in orbit around it.