Sentences with phrase «passing near the planets»

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To measure the albedo of WASP - 12b the scientists observed the exoplanet in October 2016 during an eclipse, when the planet was near full phase and passed behind its host star for a time.

As the orbit of Mercury around the Sun is tilted compared with the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, the planet normally appears to pass above or below our nearest star.

Astronomers used to debate whether the worlds of our solar system arose from a massive sheet of gas ripped out of our young sun during a near encounter with a passing star; that extended filament then supposedly clumped into planets.

Or, gravitational interactions between Earth and Venus when the planets pass near each other in orbit may be sapping our neighbor of its angular momentum.

The event on April 19 is the nearest this asteroid has come to our planet for 400 years or more and will be its nearest pass for at least the next five centuries.

A team of astronomers, led by Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University, used the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to perform a spectroscopic study of the planet's atmosphere in the near - infrared and conducted the observation as the planet passed behind its parent star.

For the transit method to work, a planet must pass almost perfectly along our line of sight, the chances of which are around 0.5 percent for an Earth - sized planet (in an Earth - sized orbit) and 10 percent for a Jupiter - sized planet (if it orbits near its star)[source: Ames Research Center, FAQ].

Many undisputed observations contradict current theories on how the solar system evolved.a One theory says that planets formed when a star, passing near our Sun, tore matter from the Sun.

Rather than imagining a planet «plowing through the Kuiper Belt,» he should consider outward spiraling TNOs passing near any giant planet.

Comets passing near large planets often are torn apart by gravitational effects or receive gravity boosts that fling them, like slingshots, out of the solar system forever.

Located in the old part of Trat, near the riverside, Pop guesthouse is an old favourite for backpackers passing through Trat and has long been recommended by Lonely Planet.

In the process new visual languages, commodities and life forms are being generated reflecting back to us our often violent entanglement with the world: patterns of embryonic development in mutated lab - test worms, live - streamed flows of CO2 gas across the planet, or a group of near - extinct animals passing by a tree and noticing the tracking camera.