Sentences with phrase «space dust causes»

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Now, thanks to a $ 107,000 Kickstarter fund and the work of more than 200 scientists, researchers know it's not extraterrestrials, but space dust that's causing the erratic and extreme dips in brightness around Tabby's star.

- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.

Eventually, energy from nearby protostars causes the molecules to evaporate off the dust and fly end over end through space, where astronomers can trace their radiation frequencies, since each molecule radiates in a distinctive way.

Even larger objects, known as moonlets, were suspected to be disrupting the ring in such a way as to cause periodic jets of dust to shoot hundreds of kilometers into space.

The process could be driving vast amounts of gas and dust toward the coalescing black hole, in turn causing intense energy to billow out from the object, says Neil Gehrels, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a member of the research team.

Or said differently the amount dust per cubic of meter in space could insignificant less than the amount in Earth's atmosphere caused by a volcanic eruption.

Another factor could be the variations of the earth's orbital shape cause it to vacuum clean a different part of the near earth space, picking up more dust and meteorites as the orbit moves into new regions.

Let's talk about that space above your cabinets for a second... that useless space that does nothing but collect dust and cause design dilemmas.