Sentences with phrase «planets zip around»
The planet zips around its host star every 8.5 hours in an extremely tight orbit, and its daytime temperatures probably top 2,000 ° Celsius.
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Solar wind creates a huge magnetic bubble, known as the heliosphere, that protects Earth and the other planets from energetic subatomic particles that constantly zip around in deep space.
Hundreds of thousands of pieces of spacecraft, satellites and other equipment from human spaceflight zip around our planet, some travelling faster than the speed of sound.
In 2006 three planets were discovered zipping around this sunlike star, each roughly the mass of Neptune.
According to NASA, just by being on the planet earth in the last year, you've zipped about 584 million miles around the sun to get back where you were.
Jun. 5, 2017 — Astronomers at Vanderbilt and Ohio State have discovered a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day, boiling at temperatures hotter than most stars with a giant cometary tail.
While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.