Sentences with phrase «tail of a comet»

This photo is actually a composite of two overlaid images to sharpen the intricate tail of the comet and star field, which is a time - consuming process.

You were once a man with a role, and now you are the tail of a comet.

They could be created within the rings, or they could come from cosmic dust from the tails of comets.

Plasmas are found throughout the solar system in places such as planetary magnetosphere, solar wind and in the tails of comets.

The solar wind helps create auroras in Earth's atmosphere, the tails of comets and the protective bubble encapsulating the solar system called the heliosphere.

Ever since Kepler's observation in the 17th century that sunlight is one of the reasons that the tails of comets to always face away from the sun, it has been understood that light exerts pressure in the direction it propagates.

«We detected strong indications of the sublimation of water ice due to the increased solar heating — similar to how the tail of a comet is created,» explains Jessica Agarwal (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany), the team leader and main author of the research paper.

Much as the sun's solar wind blows out the tails of comets, the vanishingly thin stuff between the stars blows the charged particles and magnetic fields of the solar wind back into a tail.

Because the Explorer was «very tenuously held by Earth,» says Farquhar, it was relatively easy to break that connection in 1982 and send the craft off on an unplanned mission — to fly through the tail of the comet Giacobini - Zinner.

Its gravity is so weak that much of that atmosphere streams off into space, like the tail of a comet.

Then the heated ices sublime, producing a bright halo of glowing gas that trails behind the rock: the coma and the tail of a comet, which fade again as the object retreats past Neptune.

If the ball were not spinning, air would stream straight past it, creating a swirling wake that would stretch out directly behind the ball like the tail of a comet.

Then the heated ices sublime, producing a bright halo of glowing gas that trails behind the rock: the coma and the tail of a comet.

Any water (liquid or ice) that close to the Sun would vaporize and be blown by the solar wind to the outer reaches of the solar system, a as we see happening with water vapor in the tails of comets.

Bright white fire crackling in the tails of the comets.

The book describes this trend as the «tail of a comet».