Sentences with phrase «region near the sun»

In reality, we see sunlight coming from different regions near the Sun's surface which are at different temperatures.

During the solar system's infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet - forming region near the sun.

Not exact matches

Muscles must stay warm to remain efficient, but that's a challenge for these beasts because they often swim in near - freezing waters, either in cold regions of the world or deep below the sun - warmed surface.

«These data are a fundamental reference for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

Those clues, however, are revealing that the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 26 years ago and now 90 times as far from the sun as Earth is, either has reached or will soon enter a turbulent region near the solar system's final...

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

The new images home in on a region around the black hole less than 4.2 light - years across — smaller than the distance between the sun and its nearest star, says Roopesh

Based on its direction of motion, the cloud is expected to hit a region about a quarter of the way around the galaxy from the Sun, near the Perseus arm of the galaxy.

[30] Medium - sized, low mass stars like the Sun have a core region that is stable against convection, with a convection zone near the surface that mixes the outer layers.

The Kuiper Belt — a doughnut - shaped region 30 — 50 AU from the Sun — contains about 70 % of all TNOs — those with nearly circular orbits near the plane of the ecliptic.

However, in comparison with the solar case, the FIR photosphere of alpha Cen A appears marginally cooler, Tmin = T160mu = 3920 + / -375 K. Beyond the minimum near 160mu, the brightness temperatures increase and this radiation likely originates in warmer regions of the chromosphere of alpha Cen A. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time a temperature minimum has been directly measured on a main - sequence star other than the Sun.

The view from my balcony was stunning; the resort overlooks and is situated on the beautiful Martinhal Beach; a long stretch of sun - kissed sand located in an unspoilt region near the small fishing port of Sagres, and surrounded by one of Portugal's national parks.

The photographs describe the development of the desert region of Nevada, near Reno: construction sites and their artifacts, vistas of newly built tract communities, and the desert environments that surround their imprint are traced with the high - key light of the western sun or glow of artificial light illuminating the darkness of night.

It will always come back to the fact that, nominally, it's all about the Sun — e.g., Farmers Almanac is predicting another cold wet winter despite the increase over the years in the amount of atmospheric CO2: No region will see prolonged spells of above - normal temperatures; only near the West and East Coasts will temperatures average close to normal.

This is my way of showing that Sun radiative energy is mostly in the «shortwave» visible and near - visible region (about 0.3 μ to 1μ) and that radiative energy from the warmed Earth is mostly in the «longwave» infrared region (about 6μ to 20μ).

Because the movement of the ITCZ follows the position of maximum surface heating associated with meridional displacement of the overhead position of the sun, near - equatorial regions experience two rain seasons, whereas regions further poleward experience one distinct rainfall season.