Sentences with phrase «swirling gas orbiting»
The Milky Way today is a spiral - shaped disk of swirling gas orbiting a central hub of stars — signs of a mature galaxy.
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In the old view, the planets formed in an orderly manner, born from a swirling disk of gas and dust, known as the solar nebula, into stable orbits at their present locations from the sun.
His infrared studies of the center of the galaxy with Reinhard Genzel, now a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, revealed in 1985 swirling gas clouds that could only be orbiting a massive object, presumably a black hole.
Since a star and its planets were never part of a single swirling gas and dust cloud spinning around the same axis, there is no reason for hot Jupiters to have their spin axes aligned with the star's spin axis, or for all their orbits to be prograde.