Sentences with phrase «orbit around them with»

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

Not exact matches

NASA's Juno spacecraft capped a five - year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a do - or - die engine burn to sling itself into orbit, setting the stage for a 20 - month dance around the biggest planet in the solar system to learn how and where it formed.

Classical physics — the kind we know about courtesy of Galileo and Newton — is comparatively easy to understand because we can clearly see it working all around us: the apple falls from the tree; the earth orbits the sun; the thrown baseball follows an arc that we can predict with an equation.

SpaceX successfully landed all three boosters that propelled the rocket, but the rocket's second stage, with the Roadster on top, was launched into an orbit around the sun.

The red car — along with a dummy in the driver's seat named «Starman» — were targeting an elliptical, or egg - shaped, orbit around the sun that would at times get close to Mars.

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

The atom had a nucleus with electrons orbiting around it.

Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.

I want to hang out with other humanitarians or philosophers or existentialists or nihilists and enjoy life and get advice on how I could make enough money to go into space and orbit around the Earth for a little while.

He was forced to recant his discoveries by the catholic church because they were inconsistent with the prevailing beliefs that all celestial objects orbited around the earth.

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.

(At this point we pause while your correspondent first begs forgiveness, then soundly birches himself, for using calendar year divisions in an article about football, as though the earth's predictable orbit around the sun had anything to do with Arsenal's predictable orbit around the Premier League trophy.

The Hudson Valley is a region with numerous small cities to increasing degrees in orbit around the nation's largest city.

This crystal ball displays all eight planets (sorry, Pluto) with their moons in orbits around the Sun.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has had its last close brush with Saturn's hazy moon Titan and is now beginning its final set of 22 orbits around the ringed planet.

But taking along just a little extra fuel can then gently lower a ballistically captured spacecraft into scientifically valuable, standard orbits of around 100 to 200 kilometers like those achieved with Hohmann transfers — or even onward to the Martian surface for a landing.

According to the researchers» calculations, such a hypothetical planet would complete one orbit around the Sun roughly every 17,000 years and, at its farthest point from our central star, it would swing out more than 660 astronomical units, with one AU being the average distance between Earth and the Sun.

For four billion years, the rate of change of the Earth system (E) has been a complex function of astronomical (A) and geophysical (G) forces plus internal dynamics (I): Earth's orbit around the sun, gravitational interactions with other planets, the sun's heat output, colliding continents, volcanoes and evolution, among others.

Coupled with software to reduce assorted stellar background noise, it could measure light changes down to 20 parts per million, making it more than sensitive enough to detect an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star in an orbit as large as Earth's.

In neutron star collisions, two neutron stars orbit around each other, eventually merging to form a star with approximately twice the mass of the individual stars.

Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are «tumbled around» with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.

Juno will remain in its 53 - day orbit around Jupiter due to an issue with two helium check valves, NASA reports.

They found the most mass - efficient path involves launching a crew from Earth with just enough fuel to get into orbit around Earth.

«The Bee - Zed asteroid orbits in the opposite direction to planets: The asteroid makes a complete circuit around the Sun every 12 years, corresponding with the orbital period of Jupiter, which shares its orbit but travels in the opposite direction.»

They also played around with the orbit, making it a bit more elliptical, and tried turning down the star's brightness dial — there's some uncertainty over both these factors in observations.

This has kept 67P together despite its millions of close encounters with the sun, around which it orbits every 6.6 years.

As the orbit of Mercury around the Sun is tilted compared with the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, the planet normally appears to pass above or below our nearest star.

But only six decades after Sputnik's launch into pristine skies, the orbit around Earth is now filled with nearly 18,000 objects tracked by the United States Strategic Command.

Stewart says the study should help NASA's Juno mission come up with better models of Jupiter's interior layers when the spacecraft goes into orbit around the planet in July 2016.

Juno's arrival in July won't be heralded with new pictures; the instruments will be switched off as the spacecraft whips around the planet and begins its first orbit.

Then we started finding some that were misaligned — planets with tilted orbits or planets going around their star in the opposite direction from its spin, in what we call a retrograde orbit.

With planets orbiting M dwarfs quickly becoming the darlings in the search for life beyond our solar system, a new generation of observatories are poised to discover hundreds of worlds around these stars.

The team also saw signs of a second potential planet around Proxima Centauri, a super-Earth with an orbit of between 60 and 500 days.

By dragging space - time around with it, a rotating hole allows gas to orbit closer to the event horizon without falling in.

On the face of it, detecting a moon around a planet orbiting a distant star seems like a spectacularly difficult task, but with a bit of luck today's technology may be able to do it.

The solar system in which the infant Earth found itself was an unsettled environment, filled with lumps of rock whizzing around on irregular orbits.

But if you arrive at one, you may stay there with extraordinarily little effort, or you could orbit around one, as though the libration point were a planet rather than a spot of nothing.

While studying at Stanford with John Breakwell, a legendary aeronautical engineer, Farquhar started working out the dynamics of libration points and «halo» orbits — three - dimensional loops around the points — so named because from Earth the orbit would look like a halo around the libration point.

Planets around other stars have been found with wildly tilted orbits, or «obliquities».

The real fun starts in January 1999, when near begins a year in orbit around 25 - mile - long Eros, culminating with a crash landing on that asteroid's surface.

With the help of enthusiastic European ham radio operators, Aalborg University engineering students now have two - way communication with their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on OctobeWith the help of enthusiastic European ham radio operators, Aalborg University engineering students now have two - way communication with their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Octobewith their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 5.

Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst

We would expect this disc to settle around the star's middle, so planets in our solar system ought to orbit in line with the sun's equator.

Surprisingly, initial calculations showed that it loops in an irregular, elongated orbit around Earth with a period of about 7 weeks.

That is key to his plan, announced in January, to enrobe the planet with 4,000 communications satellites — more than triple the number of satellites now in orbit — starting around 2020.

With hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satelliWith hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satelliwith data from the satellites.

Nearly every one of these exoplanets has been discovered in orbit around a mature star with a fully evolved planetary system.

It forms a close binary with another massive star within the open cluster, meaning that the two orbit around a shared centre of mass.

In 1993, NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer satellite, presumed to have been disabled by an explosion in a fuel line as the craft tried to slip into orbit around the Red Planet.

Then, astronomers may be able reschedule some of their planned VLBA measurements, Reid says, but with some loss of accuracy because Earth will have passed an optimal point in its orbit around the sun.