Sentences with phrase «out of orbit soon»

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Astronomers could soon be able to find rocky planets stretched out by the gravity of the stars they orbit, according to a group of researchers in the United States.

The four - part series starts close to home with a visit to Chankillo, Peru, site of one of the world's first solar calendars, but soon ventures out to deep space, tracing Mercury's unusual orbit, witnessing galactic collisions, and chasing the very first light back in time to the dawn of the universe.

Soon afterward, Paul Maley, a former NASA flight controller turned amateur astronomer, captured a video of what appeared to be an out - of - control Hitomi, spinning wildly in orbit.

More specifically, the researchers sought out to determine whether NASA's infrared orbiting observatory could be used to make space - based parallax measurements of microlensing events soon after they had been recorded from ground - based telescopes.