Sentences with phrase «outer atmosphere of»

The astronomers found turbulent, low - density gas much further from the star than predicted, and concluded that the movement could not result from convection, that is, from large - scale movement of matter which transfers energy from the core to the outer atmosphere of many stars.

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

The heliosphere, which may be considered the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun, extends outward past the orbit of Pluto to the heliopause, where it forms a sharp shock front boundary with the interstellar medium.

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.

Astronomers recently verified that titanium oxide in the outer atmosphere of a Mira - type giant star's absorbs its light, causing it to swell up and dim.

Since 22 September 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) spacecraft has been measuring and mapping the outer atmosphere of Mars.

We now have a map of Ceres that reveals unusual minerals, a surface peppered with craters, and water in the form of ice and possibly an outer atmosphere of vapor.

The researchers used the VLBA to look at radio emission coming from Silicon Monoxide (SiO) molecules in the outer atmosphere of TX Cam.

«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.»

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.

«We literally live in the outer atmosphere of the sun,» Guhathakurta says.

«Without this even being hyperbole, we actually live in the outer atmosphere of the sun,» says Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA.

Waves in the jet then transport material and energy into the outer atmosphere of the Sun and the wider Solar System.

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.

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.

Schrijver, C. J., Cote, J., Zwaan, C. & Saar, S. H. Relations between the photospheric magnetic field and the emission from the outer atmospheres of cool stars.

Not exact matches

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.

Even that high up, however, the outer fringes of Earth's atmosphere drag on spacecraft like Tiangong - 1.

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

Complicated cascades of subatomic reactions in the atmosphere triggered by high - energy cosmic rays from outer space.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

The outer parts of the comet's thin atmosphere will collide at high speed (56 km / sec) with the atmosphere of Mars.

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

The collection will help scientists to better understand not only how the atmospheres of the outer planets function, but also the atmospheres of Earth and planets beyond the solar system.

THE sun's million - degree outer atmosphere is the last place you would expect to find rain, yet a form of the stuff could help explain why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than you might expect.

Coronal rain is made of dense knots of relatively cold gas, at tens or hundreds of thousands of degrees C, which pours down towards the sun's visible surface from the outer atmosphere.

The images, taken over a 10 - hour period, created two massive maps of the entire planet, allowing scientists to measure the speeds of Jupiter's winds, identify different events in its atmosphere, and track changes in the outer layers of the planet.

The new maps of Jupiter are the first created under the outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, which will provide Hubble with time each year to study the outer planets.

Iain Coleman works for the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, where he uses data from spacecraft and radar networks to find out more about the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

Cassini has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 and has revolutionized our understanding of Saturn's atmosphere, rings, moons, and of the outer solar system in general.

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.

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.

Scientists hope that the probe will help solve some crucial mysteries about the sun: How can the corona (the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere) be millions of degrees hotter than the solar surface?

The release of CO2 into the atmosphere contributes to the trapping of heat that would otherwise be emitted into outer space.

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.

The project will give astronomers an unprecedented view of the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere — which aren't blocked by the moon — during the entire eclipse.

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.

Scientists believe that these ions, which the SELENE spacecraft (better known as Kaguya) detected, drifted over geologic time from the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere and became embedded in the moon's regolith, a loose top layer of soil and rock.

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 aAtmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphereatmosphere.

The images are part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program or OPAL.

Supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Survey encompasses most British research in and around the Antarctic, with scientific interests ranging «from the outer limits of the Earth's atmosphere to the depths of oceanic trenches.»

The radiation belts are two donut - shaped regions of highly energetic particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field — the inner, located just above our atmosphere and extending 4,000 miles into space; and the outer, from 8,000 to 26,000 miles out — and are named for their discoverer (as are the probes), the late James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa.

Thrusters on the satellite will compensate for the small drag exerted by the outer wisps of the atmosphere.

The new data also give scientists clues to a long - standing mystery about the atmospheres of giant outer planets.

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.

Unlike Earth, Mars has no substantial atmosphere or global magnetic field, and so is completely unprotected against the flood of energetic radiation particles from outer space.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astrophysicist Alfred Vidal - Madjar of the Institute for Astrophysics in Paris detected starlight streaming through the planet's outer layers and determined that its atmosphere is boiling off, creating a large cloud.

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.

Director Holzworth is a plasma physicist who is interested in what happens in the outer edges of the atmosphere.

In the corona, the expansive outer layer of the solar atmosphere that extends millions of kilometers from the sun's surface, temperatures reach millions of kelvins.