Sentences with phrase «orbit of the planet in»

The specific issues that I addressed in my Ph.D. thesis were all associated with, or at least motivated by, problems in theoretical astrophysics, gravitational dynamics in particular: the evolution of the orbits of planets in the solar system and the evolution of structure in galaxies.

A SUBTLE anomaly in the orbit of the planets in our solar system could prove a controversial idea that goes beyond Einstein.

Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding.

Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPP... read more

Unfortunately, current estimates of the masses and orbits of Stars A and B — whose large margins of errors result in significant uncertainty — suggest that the orbit of a planet in the habitable zone of Star A could be disrupted.

Not exact matches

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

Juno will fly in highly elliptical orbits that will pass within 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of the tops of Jupiter's clouds and inside the planet's powerful radiation belts.

In terms of visibility, your goal is to be in a kind of celestial sweet spot where you are orbiting not too far away from the big planets or the smaller ones (so you can keep an eye on both), but not so close that you get pulled by gravity into them (and crashIn terms of visibility, your goal is to be in a kind of celestial sweet spot where you are orbiting not too far away from the big planets or the smaller ones (so you can keep an eye on both), but not so close that you get pulled by gravity into them (and crashin a kind of celestial sweet spot where you are orbiting not too far away from the big planets or the smaller ones (so you can keep an eye on both), but not so close that you get pulled by gravity into them (and crash).

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

Planet owns and operates the largest private satellite fleet in orbit, and provides the most consistently up - to - date images of our Earth's surface

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

«Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Edmond Halley were pioneers in describing the orbits of comets and planets.

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?

Copernicus's posthumous fame, of course, arose from his 30 - year project published soon before his death, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - a revolution indeed, in which he explained his calculations that proved that the earth and planets orbit the sun, rather than the sun and planets orbitthe earth.

For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun.

Picking his way expertly through three centuries of scientific history, from Newton on gravity (the force that causes apples to fall and planets to stay in orbit is the same), through electricity and magnetism (aspects of a single reality), to the present search for a Grand Unified Theory, he argued that the coherence of the physical universe progressively uncovered by science points to a «unity principle» at its heart.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

Like conic sections, which had to wait nearly two thousand years for their first important application in Kepler's description of the elliptical orbits of the planets, perhaps the trinitarian conceptuality, at least with regard to the problem of transcendence and immanence, first comes into its own in our situation.

One insignificant planet orbiting one insignificant star out of billions, in one insignificant galaxy out of billions of other galaxies, and we are somehow the sole focus of a greater being that by all accounts has not had any provable direct communication with mankind, ever?

The views of Copernicus did not depart completely from the Aristotelian picture of the universe in that he still regarded the planets as moving in circular orbits round the sun.

The nightmarish spectre of Antonio Conte's hauntingly terrifying face leering into the camera for an interview where He visibly battles with his urge to discuss the upcoming Champions League match with Barcelona rather than the humiliation of a Hull side without endangering any of his important players, was enough to prompt Mark to gaze heavenward, longing for the rumoured «Planet X» to finally roam into our orbit and take out earth in an apocalyptic planetary collision which the FA Cup would likely somehow survive.

The premise of a ballistic capture: Instead of shooting for the location Mars will be in its orbit where the spacecraft will meet it, as is conventionally done with Hohmann transfers, a spacecraft is casually lobbed into a Mars - like orbit so that it flies ahead of the planet.

Based on these analyses, A / 2017 U1 came from the direction of the constellation Lyra, swooping in from high above the ecliptic plane in which the sun's planets orbit at a breathtaking 25 kilometers per second.

All were discovered in the first decade of the nineteenth century, and all were considered planets until the 1860s, when a tide of discoveries of ever - smaller objects in similar orbits demoted them to the rank of mere asteroids.

When a planet orbits in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.

When astronomers in February announced the discovery of seven planets orbiting a supercool star, details about the outermost planet were sketchy.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

Artist's interpretation of a hypothetical moon in orbit around a planet found in a tight - knit triple - star system.

This picture is a closeup of a part of the material in the hole, and it may very well be that the blue spot is a planet, and the red swirl is material falling onto the planet - in other words, the planet is still forming from junk orbiting the star!

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The stately solar system of today was in turmoil in its first several million years, theorists believe, with giant planets sowing chaos as they strayed far from their current orbits.

The KELT monitors bright stars in large sections of the sky, searching for planets that orbit extremely closely.

Most of the planets in the Solar System have smaller bodies, or satellites, that orbit a planet.

Carr and the other research team members set out to study the protoplanetary disk around a star known as HD 100546, and as sometimes happens in scientific inquiry, it was by «chance» that they stumbled upon the formation of the planet orbiting this star.

The discovery of seven Earth - sized planets orbiting a single cool star fuels a debate over what counts as good news in the search for life outside the solar system.

Throughout his stay, Scott Kelly invited the world to join him (virtually) on the ISS, and he provided us with an intimate glimpse of life in orbit and our planet.

The solar system of today was in turmoil in its first several million years, theorists believe, with giant planets sowing chaos as they strayed far from their current orbits.

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

He is also part of a NASA team that will soon be using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find Earth - like planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their stars.

The researchers believe the presence of multiple stars in a system could be a clue as to how planets finally settle into their orbits.

Our analysis strongly suggests we are observing a disk of hot gas that surrounds a forming giant planet in orbit around the star.

Dubbed Kepler 438 b and Kepler 442 b, both planets appear to be rocky and orbit in the not - too - hot, not - too - cold habitable zones of their stars where liquid water can exist in abundance.

But it could later switch to satellites like the 28 imaging cubesats that the firm Planet Labs of San Francisco already has in orbit.

But on top of that, the orbits of the six objects are also all tilted in the same way — pointing about 30 degrees downward in the same direction relative to the plane of the eight known planets.

But the real kicker for the researchers was the fact that their simulations also predicted that there would be objects in the Kuiper Belt on orbits inclined perpendicularly to the plane of the planets.

At the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 13, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Brain described how insights from the MAVEN mission could be applied to the habitability of rocky planets orbiting other stars.

Brain and his colleagues started to think about applying these insights to a hypothetical Mars - like planet in orbit around some type of M - star, or red dwarf, the most common class of stars in our galaxy.

Although it isn't possible today to say whether the planets harbor life, astronomers are excited because each planet's orbit passes in front of — or «transits» — its parent star.