Sentences with phrase «plane of the disk»

Planets begin to form in the plane of the disk from leftover scraps.

The astronomers» goal is to finally reveal what our own Galaxy looks like if we could leave it, travel outward perhaps a million light - years, and view it face - on, rather than along the plane of its disk.

Shouldn't matter being thrown off an accretion disk travel outward in all directions along the plane of the disk?

«As the sun orbits the Milky Way, it also bobs up and down, rising above the plane of the disk and then diving below it,» he says.

You'd be stunned if you averaged all those fields and got one that was in the plane of the disk.

Kevin then used another technique to better constrain the plane of the disk itself: as you can't quite trust scattered light images to determine where the structures (mass) is hidden, he used longer wavelength observations from the ALMA radio interferometer array to figure out how inclined is the disk.

The jet coming from the nucleus (visible in the wider - field view at right) is also seen to be perpendicular to the plane of the disk.

However, clearly visible in this image are nebulosities above and below the plane of the disk; these betray the presence of the otherwise invisible central star, which can not be seen directly due to dust in the edge - on disk.