Sentences with phrase «region around its orbit»

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The Hudson Valley is a region with numerous small cities to increasing degrees in orbit around the nation's largest city.

As our solar system slowly orbits around the galactic center, the sun's ultraviolet radiation carves out an egg - shaped region of ionized hydrogen atoms surrounded by neutral hydrogen gas.

The region of space around an object where a satellite could orbit indefinitely is called the Hill sphere, roughly defined as where the object's gravitational field is stronger than that exerted by another object outside the sphere.

«It's right in the middle of the habitable zone [the region around a star where temperatures are neither too high or too low for liquid water to exist], and it orbits a star very similar to our sun.»

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

The as - yet - unconfirmed world, thought to be around the mass of Mars, would explain the wonky orbits of a group of icy objects in a region known as the Kuiper belt.

Based on the Gemini spectra of the center of NGC 1600, most stars inside the sphere of influence of the black hole — a region about 3,000 light - years in radius — are traveling on circular orbits around the black hole, with very few moving radially inward or outward.

Trojan asteroids are those that are temporarily trapped in regions 60 degrees in front of or 60 degrees behind the planet Jupiter in its orbit around the Sun.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.

VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy 0402 +379, showing the two cores, labeled C1 and C2, identified as a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around each other.

(Cislunar refers to the region between Earth and the moon, including orbits around the moon itself.