Sentences with phrase «outer atmosphere»

The solar wind is the sun's outer atmosphere expanding into space.

The spacecraft's telescopes are sensitive to radiation from the hot outer atmospheres of stars like the Sun and white dwarfs, formed when stars about the size of the Sun reach the end of their lives.

As the bloated star ages, this extended outer atmosphere cools and contracts, then soaks up more energy from the star and again puffs out: with each successive cycle of expansion and contraction the atmosphere puffs out a little farther.

In this, the first direct, detailed image of a star other than the sun, the hot outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse is shown to stretch nearly a billion miles across — if it were our sun it would have swallowed Jupiter.

In the year and a half NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter, the science team led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Scott Bolton has discovered that the orange and white bands that characterize Jupiter's outer atmosphere extend thousands of miles into the gas giant's atmosphere.

ASPERA — sensors that detect and identify atoms, ions, and electrons in Mars's outer atmosphere as well as in the solar wind, consisting of particles rushing at the planet from the sun.

His work focused on the solar corona, the tenuous outer atmosphere of the sun.

Near the end of its life, a huge star blasts much of its bloated outer atmosphere into space — a torrent of gas equal to Earth's mass each year, racing outward at 10 million kilometers per hour.

NEW ORLEANS — Despite its smooth appearance, the sun's wispy outer atmosphere is surprisingly full of knots, whorls and blobs.

NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million - degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind.

Early eclipse expeditions prompted today's vital studies of the sun's outer atmosphere snf helped scientific institutions emerge.

Solar winds (gusts of ions from the sun's outer atmosphere capable of pulling apart molecules they encounter) suck up particles in Venus's atmosphere, untangle their atoms and spit them into space.

Remnants of the star's outer atmosphere show up as lustrous red rings.

Sophisticated telescopes developed by Southern Research captured unique images of the Sun's outer atmosphere during Monday's «Great American Eclipse,» and scientists are beginning a detailed examination of data described as «spectacular.»

These stars have outer atmospheres whose temperatures exceed 1 million °C.

A planetary nebula is the detached outer atmosphere of a red giant star, which is one of the final stages in a medium - sized star's lifecycle.

This might mean that it has a hot outer atmosphere heated by bubbling convection cells on the young planet — sort of a Jupiter on steroids.

The spacecraft will look at the corona — the superheated outer atmosphere of the sun — to learn more about how energy flows through the sun, the structure of the solar wind, and how energetic particles are accelerated and transported.

«However, the tenuous outer atmosphere of the sun extends a long way beyond its visible surface, and it turns out the Earth would actually be orbiting within these very low density outer layers.»

THE solar wind is a hurricane of charged particles that blows from the Sun's outer atmosphere into deep space at a million miles per hour.

Solar cycle peaks are normally preceded by bright disturbances in the sun's wispy outer atmosphere or corona.

The corona is the extended outer atmosphere of the Sun, which is much larger in volume than the Sun itself.

Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory had previously detected X-rays from the sun's hot outer atmosphere, but those rays were only a millionth as intense as the sun's light.

The sun can unleash solar storms and solar flares — bursts of X-rays and ultraviolet light — that heat Earth's outer atmosphere, causing the air to expand and rise.

White dwarfs form when certain stars lose their outer atmospheres.

WASP - 12b's bloated state means it can barely hold onto its outer atmosphere.

The Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, has posed an enduring mystery.

A star the size of the sun becomes a «red giant» toward the end of its 10 - billion - year life span, a phase in which its outer atmosphere expands a great deal.

The patterns, some of which also resemble expanding bubbles and mushrooms, arise in the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, where the solar wind is thought to emanate from.

The gas in the interior of this disk, the team suggests, may have already condensed into a clump that marks the beginnings of planet formation; if so, the hydrogenic ions could be originating from the outer atmosphere of this protoplanet.

The billion - dollar Solar Probe Plus, tentatively slotted for launch in 2018, would skim the outer atmosphere — or corona — of the sun itself, repeatedly dipping within five solar diameters of the sun's surface, far closer than any probe has ever approached our star.

Most of this outer atmosphere has a temperature of around 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1,000 to 2,000 degrees cooler than the sun's surface temperature.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

These observations are a step toward understanding the coronal heating problem, which is how scientists refer to the extraordinarily — and unexpectedly — high temperatures in the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.

But in that short time, the cutting - edge instrument found the best evidence to date of a phenomenon scientists have been seeking for years: signatures of tiny solar flares that could help explain the mysterious extreme heating of the Sun's outer atmosphere.

Phosphine forms in the hot interior of the planet and reacts to form other compounds in the cooler outer atmosphere, so its appearance in the spectrum is evidence of turbulent mixing in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Rosetta will also probe the plasma environment and analyse how it interacts with the Sun's outer atmosphere, the solar wind.

The Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, in which the solar wind originates, varies in density.

During the eclipse, scientists will also study Earth's outer atmosphere, the ionosphere, a region of the atmosphere containing particles that are charged by solar radiation.

This project could lay the foundation for using consumer smartphones to help monitor the outer atmosphere for disturbances caused by solar storms.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has observed the hot outer atmosphere, or corona, of a star other than our own sun in the optical light spectrum.

For scientists, the celestial event is a rare opportunity to observe the elusive solar corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is usually obscured by the sun's bright surface.

As the Lynx approaches the outer atmosphere, the rocket engines will be shut down and the pilot and passenger will feel weightless until they begin their 20 - minute descent.

Its ultraviolet light detectors will reveal the composition of interstellar gas, the cores of galaxies and quasars, the outer atmospheres of cool stars and planets, planetary nebulas, and supernovas.

As it passes through the outer atmosphere, friction will slow the vehicle to below the speed of sound in less than two minutes.

The tidal effect, as it's called, is probably why astronomers have not been finding more hot Jupiters practically grazing the outer atmospheres of their stars.