Sentences with phrase «outer planet in»

Another part of his proposal is to build a scale model of the solar system within Manhattan, with a model of the sun in Battery Park, inner planets throughout downtown and midtown, and outer planets in the Bronx.

Such tugs may have shifted the orbits of the outer planets in our own solar system billions of years ago — perhaps even kicking a now - lost world into the cold depths of space in the process.

The existence of methane on the outer planets in our solar system, (assuming existing scientific assumptions) implies that biology is a minor source of methane.

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.

In addition, since its inception in 1993, Wild Planet Toys has conducted annual social assessments of its inner and outer workings to make sure that the company is adhering to its stated valueIn addition, since its inception in 1993, Wild Planet Toys has conducted annual social assessments of its inner and outer workings to make sure that the company is adhering to its stated valuein 1993, Wild Planet Toys has conducted annual social assessments of its inner and outer workings to make sure that the company is adhering to its stated values.

When one finds Fred Hoyle announcing his conviction that evolution can not have taken place on this planet from scratch in the time available, but must instead have been brought in from outer space, the Bible believer obviously is under no pressure to get into line with the evolutionists whose house itself appears to be in considerable disrepair.

Pictures of the planet, taken from outer space, have impressed indelibly in our collective psyche, just how beautiful the earth is and how much we depend on her abundance.

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

Human beings are adapted to the material circumstances of many of the locations on our planet; we can not survive unsupported in outer space.

Scientists had recently discovered that every 200,000 years, on average, churning in the hot liquid metal of Earth's outer core causes the planet's whole magnetic field to flip.

On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Future observations and studies into the dynamical lifetimes of non-resonant planet - crossing orbits in the far regions of the outer solar system could help to further test the case for the existence and whereabouts of a ninth planet, Malhotra and her co-authors write.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

«We find no evidence of the orbit clustering needed for the Planet Nine hypothesis in our fully independent survey,» says Cory Shankman, an astronomer at the University of Victoria in Canada and a member of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which since 2013 has found more than 800 objects out near Neptune using the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.

They soon realized the pair formed when two dwarf planets collided in the outer solar system.

The Jupiter maps, first in series of annual portraits of the outer planets, also reveal rare wave structures that scientists haven't seen for nearly 40 years.

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.

This mechanical forcing applied to the whole planet causes strong currents in the outer core, which is made up of a liquid iron alloy of very low viscosity.

Life thrives on this planet partly because it is protected by the powerful magnetic field generated in the outer core.

Scientists think a dynamo — a rotating, convecting, electrically conducting fluid in a planet's outer core — is the mechanism for generating the planetary magnetic fields.

Several other super-Earths have been identified in systems much like our solar system, with small planets closer to the star and giants in the outer orbits.

The scarcity of these metals in the outer layers of the planet — the mantle and crust — make them precious to us.

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

55 Cancri's outer planet, for example, has an orbital period of 14 years, and was therefore only discovered in 2004.

In the case of a lonely planet, the inner disk is significantly depleted relative to the outer disk because the planet blocks part of the gas flow from the outer to the inner part, so the outer disk wins.

In the case of Jupiter and Saturn, the gas is conveyed efficiently from the outer to the inner disk, and the inner disk is therefore more massive and moves the two planets outward.

Research like this is important because it focuses on questions we can definitively answer, like whether or not Europa is inhabitable,» said Curt Niebur, Outer Planets Program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

This new image from the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter, was made during the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) progplanet in the Solar System, Jupiter, was made during the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) progPlanet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) programme.

The new image is the first in a series of annual portraits of the Solar System's outer planets, which will give us new glimpses of these remote worlds, and help scientists to study how they change over time.

Studying such moons is relevant to conditions in our early solar system, Mittal said, when it's likely there were many more moons around the planets that have since disintegrated into rings — the suspected origins of the rings of the outer planets.

But in the inner disk, warm gas would fight against the planet's weak gravity, so the cold and dense gas of the outer disk is the more likely womb.

New findings reveal a crater's vaporous hazes, and hint at the dwarf planet's possible origin in the outer solar system

However, the outer planets of the system — including the planets e, f and g which are in the habitable zone — should have lost much less water, suggesting that they could have retained some on their surfaces [3].

The data support the idea that the magnetic field originates from circulating electric currents in one of the planet's outer layers of molecular hydrogen.

It failed to pin down the day length due to lingering difficulties in measuring the rotation rate of the planet's innards beneath the thick outer envelope of gas.

She wants sequencers everywhere — not just on the outer planets, but also for samples of the Mars subsurface or Saturn's moon Titan, dipped in frozen methane.

This lower limit was intriguing because the outer edge of the hole is about as far from its star as the giant planets in our solar system are from the sun.

«Ceres or ammonia - rich material from the outer solar system could have been implanted in the Asteroid Belt as a result of orbital perturbations exerted by the giant planets» early in the solar system's history, De Sanctis says.

Mittal said it's not clear whether the dust and debris rings would be visible from earth, since dust does not reflect much sunlight, whereas ice in the rings of the outer planets makes them easily visible.

Meanwhile, astronomers will get close - up views of the outer solar system in July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto and sends back detailed images of the once most - distant planet and its three moons.

Ceres is a dwarf planet, and like its more famous cousin in the outer solar system, Pluto, Ceres harbors a lot of ice.

Another possibility is that Mercury was once a bigger planet and lost its outer shell not through an encounter with the sun but in a collision with an asteroid or another planet.

The two gas giant planets did a gravitational dance with the sun and each other that sent them hurling in then back out to the outer solar system.

Fomalhaut's mystery planet (inset) is bound to enter the inner edge of the star's outer belt of icy debris in 2032.

A few decades before a close encounter, at most, astronomers would observe a strange perturbation in the orbits of the 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.

It orbits the star every 13 days, meaning it is in a 5 - to - 3 resonance with the outer planet.

In 1967, inspired by a new international outer - space treaty, the space - racing nations of the world agreed to spare no effort in preventing the potential spread of organisms from one moon or planet to anotheIn 1967, inspired by a new international outer - space treaty, the space - racing nations of the world agreed to spare no effort in preventing the potential spread of organisms from one moon or planet to anothein preventing the potential spread of organisms from one moon or planet to another.

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.

Kane and his fellow researchers at Penn State University and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland used «solar flux» — or the amount of a star's energy that a planet receives — to define the inner and outer edges of the Venus Zone.