Sentences with phrase «revolve around their orbit»

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In the 1600s, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed through a telescope the moons orbiting Jupiter — clear evidence against the idea that the heavenly bodies all revolve around the earth.

The Orbit of The Sun: Scientists have long believed that the earth revolved around the sun, which was stationary.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

HD 80606 b In our solar system, every planet except Mercury revolves around the sun in a nearly perfect circular orbit.

Ceres revolves around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter every 4.6 years.

As the clouds revolve around us, they have also orbited each other.

In the 2020s, NASA's human spaceflight program will revolve around sending astronauts to high lunar orbit to study a small boulder robotically plucked from the surface of a large asteroid, agency officials announced yesterday.

Through the newly invented telescope Galileo had seen many things that couldn't be explained by the dominant cosmology of the time, rooted in the idea that all things revolved around Earth: things like moons crossing the face of Jupiter, or the changing phases of Venus as sunlight caught it at different angles — an impossibility if Venus's orbit encircled Earth.

Pulsar J1903 +0327 appears to be revolving around a sunlike companion star in an elongated orbit.

The cycle between an elliptical and circular orbit and a change in the tilt of Earth's axis combined to create periods in which our planet did not tilt very much as it revolved around the sun, thereby eliminating seasons and resulting in less climatic variability.

The two binary stars A and B revolve around their common centre of mass in a relatively close orbit, while the third star, Proxima Centauri, is 0.22 light years away, more than 12,500 times the distance between the Sun and Earth.

While the mystery of KIC 8462852's brightness variations is still far from settled, a new study by a team of astronomers that has utilised NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests that the culprit is most probably a huge swarm of cometary fragments that revolve around the star on highly elongated eccentric orbits.

It revolves around GJ 1214 at an average distance of 0.014 AU, in a roughly circular orbit (e < 0.27) which it completes in 1.6 days (38 hours), and so the planet must have a very hot equilibrium temperature — updated in 2011 to around 555 kelvin, 539 ° Fahrenheit, or 282 ° Celsius (Desert et al, 2011, page 6).

The general plot revolves around a bunch of «pillars» on the ark that can be used to bring Cybertron into earth's orbit, which the Decepticons plan on activating with little regard for the human life that will be lost.

Plot revolves around an ailing factory worker's (Matt Damon) attempt to reach the heavily - fortified, orbiting retreat for some urgently - needed cancer treatment.

The world of pickup collision repair rapidly is being pushed into a new orbit that revolves around aluminum.