Sentences with phrase «tight orbit about»

The second experiment aims to detect and study a radio pulsar in tight orbit about Sgr A * using radio telescopes (including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA).

Not exact matches

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

Planets with extremely tight orbits offer scientists a wealth of data: For instance, each week Kepler 78b circles its star about 20 times, giving researchers numerous opportunities to observe its behavior.

The leading theory that explains the creation of short GRBs, however, involves the merger of two neutron stars in a tight orbit that rapidly lose energy by emitting gravitational waves to merge after about three orbits, or in less than 8 milliseconds.

To maintain Mercury's tight inner orbit around the Sun, the planet must move much faster than Earth needs to in its more distant Solar orbit so that a spacecraft must gain about 65,000 miles per hour (105,000 km per hour) to «catch» it.

[When I read the «risible, circle - jerk blogs» bit it seemed you were talking about Anthony & Co., who are carving an ever - tighter orbit around their own anuses.