Sentences with phrase «other planets of the solar system»

Earth and the other planets of our solar system suffer occasional impacts when comets are disturbed from their orbits around the sun by the gravity of nearby stars and gas clouds.

Other planets of the Solar System, especially Jupiter, Mars and Venus, influence the Earth's tilt and the shape of its orbit, in a more - or-less cyclic fashion, with significant effects on the intensity of sunshine falling on different regions of the Earth during the various seasons.

, and How Long is a Day on the Other Planets of the Solar System?

Not exact matches

The two nuclear - powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to take close - up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, the planets» moons and rings, and other objects in the outer solar system.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Lurking between Mars and Jupiter is the largest asteroid in the solar system: a dwarf planet called Ceres, which has ice volcanoes, salt deposits, and other features that suggest it's hiding an ocean of salt water.

In «Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,» humans have colonized several other planets and moons in the solar system.

Our very solar system — sun and earth — are the left over bit of other stars and planets that exploded billions of years ago.

What i mean by this is that if u read the creation story in the bible, there is no mention that god created the solar system with the sun in the center, with the other planets, with us in the milky way galaxy, and all the other billions of galaxies.

Scientists know that the Earth exists because of the sun, as well as the other planets and debris floating around in the solar system.

The problem of evolutionary determinism is often brought up in relation to the hypothetical extraterrestrial life on hypothetical planets in other solar systems.

There may very well be hundreds of other planets in other solar systems that are inhabited by intelligent life that is completely different from us.

[1] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.»

what i truely believe is that the moon on that day dec 23 2012 will escape the earth gravity because of the solar systems alignment with the milky way and the same goes for the other planets moons causing the moons too sling shot in every direction.

New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss offers a potential solution to a longstanding problem in the prevailing theory of how rocky planets formed in our own Solar System, as well as in others.

This program could also be used to catalog impact scars on other moons or planets, which might improve scientists» understanding of how various objects roamed our solar system in the past...

In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the other known planets — a fact that Brown says makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.»

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

But other planetary scientists, including Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, note that JWST will also use its infrared eyes to peer at planets both inside the Solar System and beyond.

Comets are the most primitive objects in the solar system, preserved samples of the raw ingredients that formed Earth and the other planets.

When astronomers started finding planets around other stars in the 1990s, they fully expected to see the general structure of our own solar system repeated throughout the cosmos.

Newborn planets in other solar systems endure «catastrophic» collisions for hundreds of millions of years, according to a new astronomical survey of nearby stars.

Though that remains to be determined, Batygin suggests that the planet may have been ejected from the neighborhood of the gas giants by Jupiter, or perhaps may have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other stellar bodies in the solar system's extreme past.

Our own Kuiper Belt, which extends outward from Neptune's orbit, is home to many dwarf planets, comets, and other small bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.

Due to gravitational effects in the solar system, such as the tug of other planets, Mercury's oval - shaped path around the sun slowly turns, or precesses.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

Earth's atmosphere differs from the atmospheres of most other rocky planets and moons in our solar system in that it is rich in nitrogen gas, or N2; Earth's atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen gas.

Over the past decade, the discovery of planets around other stars and the development of intricate computer simulations have suggested that our solar system is something of an oddball.

Other of these went on to form larger planets, or collided with the Sun or were ejected from the solar system altogether.

Until then, all the known exoplanets (planets circling other stars) were big and gaseous, but this one is probably made of rocky materials — the first world like ours found in an alien solar system.

In keeping with all the rest of Ceres's oddball uncertainties, the findings hold major albeit nebulous implications for our understanding of the dwarf planet and its relationship to the other large objects in our solar system.

Such an event could enable bacteria and other forms of life to make their way from one planet in the solar system to another and perhaps beyond.

Hundreds of exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — have already been detected from the ground and from other spacecraft via transit searches and other methods.

The new planet haul is the biggest yet, bringing the number of confirmed worlds outside our solar system over 3200 - and edges us closer to knowing how many stars host other Earths

The causes of the tides are explained and they realise that the Sun is a star, and are shown how the Earth, Moon, Sun and planets move relative to each other and how our Solar System fits into the grander context of the Galaxy and the Universe.

Such a sequence of events, on a much larger scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets and asteroids.

The structure of the heliosphere plays a big role in how particles from interstellar space — called cosmic rays — reach the inner solar system, where Earth and the other planets are.

There's an intriguing twist, too: Jayawardhana and others have shown that young brown dwarfs generally do not have massive protoplanetary disks of gas and dust, which means that if the new object is indeed a planet, it may not have formed the same way planets in our solar system did.

Understanding our own solar system better will allow us to infer the existence of smaller planets in other systems.

Unlike every other major satellite of every other planet in our solar system, our moon ignores the axis of its parent planet and instead circles in nearly the same plane that Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun, offset by slightly over five degrees.

That could be crucial to learning much more: Jupiter was likely the first planet to form around the sun, so its inner workings — particularly the nature of its core and how heat trickles out from the planet's abyssal depths — may offer hints about how other planets came to be, both in our solar system and around other stars.

In a decade, NASA hopes to launch a network of space - based telescopes that will be able to pinpoint Earth - like planets in other solar systems and see whether life has altered their atmosphere in the same way it has here on Earth — flooding it with oxygen, for example.

With them it will peer through the creaking, dusty cosmic eons to study much that astronomers using Hubble and other telescopes have barely begun to glimpse: the universe's very first galaxies, nascent stars and planets in mid-creation in nebulous wombs, the atmospheres of worlds both within and beyond our solar system.

It will have many other applications, ranging all the way from studies of the planets and satellites in the Solar System, through the properties of star - forming regions in the Milky Way and out to the distant Universe.

Fortunately, the risk of contaminating the Red Planet is extremely slim, says Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, who is charged with ensuring agency projects do not contaminate other solar system bodies.

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

So, he says, is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and so is the Earth's moon, and so are more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under the prevailing definition of «planet.»

Dawn's observations are transforming our understanding of how Earth and the other inner planets — Mars, Mercury, and Venus — emerged from the solar system's primordial chaos.

Sasselov, a 46 - year - old Harvard University astronomer and director of the university's Origins of Life Initiative, is looking for life - sustainable extrasolar planets — planets that are circling suns in other solar systems.

Dr David Armstrong from the University of Warwick's Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, commented: «Mercury stands out from the other Solar System terrestrial planets, showing a very high fraction of iron and implying it formed in a different way.