Sentences with phrase «rotation axis»

We measure an inclination between the projected planetary orbital axis and the projected stellar rotation axis of lambda = -26.9 + / - 4.6 deg, indicating a moderate inclination of the planetary orbit.

This succession of glacials and interglacials is caused by changes in insolation brought about by cyclical variations in the distance between Earth and the Sun and in the tilt and direction of our planet's rotation axis relative to the Sun.

«This asymmetry depends on properties such as the mass and the relative orientation of the back holes» rotation axes before the merger,» said team member Colin Norman of STScI and Johns Hopkins University.

the only way out is a combo — surgical symmetrical bisection, addition and transformation about their mutual principal rotation axis.

In 1993, Jacques Laskar of the Paris Observatory in France and colleagues showed that the moon helps stabilise the tilt of Earth's rotation axis against perturbations by Jupiter's gravity.

«First, the largest quantity of hydrogen is offset from the current rotation axis of the moon by roughly 5.5 degrees.

From Earth, big - dish radar can precisely measure the changing tilt of Mercury's rotation axis as well as what one of the co-authors calls «the planet doing the twist»: tiny changes in its rotation speed due to solar tides.

It is found that the El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is driven not only by the seasonal heating, but also by three more external periodicities (incommensurate to the annual period) associated with the ~ 18.6 - year lunar - solar nutation of the Earth rotation axis, ~ 11 - year sunspot activity cycle and the ~ 14 - month Chandler wobble in the Earth's pole motion.

The team found very low mass newborn twin stars with misaligned rotation axes.

«This asymmetry depends on properties such as the mass and the relative orientation of the back holes» rotation axes before the merger,» Colin Norman, an astrophysicist with the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement.

The gravitational effects associated with the presence of the Moon and Sun cause cyclical deformation of the Earth's mantle and wobbles in its rotation axis.

Uranus» magnetic field and rotation axis are out of alignment by 59 degrees, unlike Earth's, whose magnetic field and rotation axis are nearly aligned.

Its magnetosphere is offset from its rotation axis, but only by 47 degrees.

Its wings have four rotation axes that allow them to turn nice, slow figure eights.

Since the rotation axis of Saturn inclines compared to its orbital plane around the Sun, the ring opening angle to the Sun changes over a 15 - year cycle.

«You can control how large it is because you can move the needle with respect to the rotation axis.

And, as one geophysicist writes, «the torques from the sun, moon, and planets move the rotation axis [of Earth] in space; torques from the atmosphere, ocean, and fluid core move the rotation axis relative to the crust of Earth.

Francis Nimmo, the lead author of the second study and an associate professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz, says that in the early solar system very large impacts were common: «Earth's moon is the result of a big impact, Mercury has one giant impact basin, and when you move to the outer solar system, Uranus's rotation axis is tilted because of an impact.

The team then went further and looked to see if the rotation axes were linked, not just to each other, but also to the structure of the Universe on large scales at that time.

The new VLT results indicate that the rotation axes of the quasars tend to be parallel to the large - scale structures in which they find themselves.

«The first odd thing we noticed was that some of the quasars» rotation axes were aligned with each other — despite the fact that these quasars are separated by billions of light - years,» said Hutsemékers.

The large - scale structure is shown in blue and quasars are marked in white with the rotation axes of their black holes indicated with a line.

A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light - years.

The team has also found that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web in which they reside.

The team could not see the rotation axes or the jets of the quasars directly.

In addition to accretion disks, black holes also have winds and incredibly bright jets erupting from them along their rotation axis, shooting out matter and radiation at nearly the speed of light.

What is more, they point out that the Red Planet wobbles on its rotation axis, producing a regular cycle of climate swings that would drive bacteria into dormancy for long enough to accumulate such doses, before higher temperatures enabled the survivors to recover and multiply.

It wasn't the rotation axis of Mars that shifted (a process known as variation of obliquity) but rather the outer layers (mantle and crust) that rotated with respect to the inner core, rather like turning the flesh of an apricot around its stone.

Superheated material spills away and is shot outward from the star in opposite directions along an uncluttered escape route — the star's rotation axis.

An analysis of recent measurements indicates that one of the main nonuniformities of the earth's rotation - its tendency to wobble gently about its rotation axis - may be excited by major earthquakes

Due to the approximate alignment of the magnetic axis with the rotation axis, the energetic particle losses due to the moons are expected to be much more pronounced than the ones in the other outer planets (Roussos et al. 2007).

Due to the complexity of their magnetic fields, and the large tilt of their magnetic axes with respect to their rotation axes, we expect the solar wind interactions with the planetary fields to challenge our understanding of magnetic and plasma interactions.

«The rotation axis shifted over millions of years to move this excessive mass towards the planet's equator.»

Those nebulae that are butterfly - shaped or hourglass - shaped tend to be mysteriously aligned such that their rotation axis is perpendicular to the plane of our galaxy.

Uranus is tipped on its side, with a rotation axis in nearly the same plane as its orbit.

A subset of this population has bipolar outflows that align to the star's rotation axis.

Eventual collimation of the outflow toward the rotation axes appears to be a generic feature of many proposed models.

This is in line with more recent studies that suggest that misalignment of magnetic field and rotation axes or turbulence may enhance early disk formation, producing disks of 100 times the Earth - Sun radius or larger.

The researchers think this might be caused by some sort of misalignment between the rotation axis and the magnetic field of the young star.

Thanks to the high resolution of ALMA, the team successfully imaged the rotation of the gas disks around the very low mass twin stars and found that the rotation axes of the two stars are misaligned.

The similarity is both in the strength of the field and in its arrangement, with magnetic field lines twisted in spirals around the galaxy's rotation axis.

Venus is a unique planet in that rotates not in the direction of its movement along the circumsolar orbit, but in the opposite direction, because its rotation axis is tilted 177 degrees.

The angle between the rotation axes of the disks is 77 degrees.

The «lamppost» model says they are compact sources of light, similar to light bulbs, that sit above and below the black hole, along its rotation axis.

If the companion were pulling in material from a neighboring star, jets escaping along the companion's rotation axis could be produced.

The melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will actually cause the Earth's rotation axis to shift rather dramatically — approximately 500 metres from its present position if the entire ice sheet melts.

And yes it is based on the offset from the rotation axis.

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