Sentences with phrase «used for planet formation»

We were very surprised based on the fact that previous models people used for planet formation suggested a much higher critical shock pressure,» says Richard Kraus, now a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lead author on the paper published in March in Nature Geoscience.

Not exact matches

I use ALMA to measure disk masses and sizes, revealing their potential for planet formation.

By studying these stars, and using additional telescope facilities such as the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the study will provide new and unique insight into the timescale for the formation of stars and planets, including whether planets form during or after the assembly of the star.

It is reasonable to expect that the research by space scientists using data from the Webb will produce significant advances in understanding the formation and evolution of the oldest stars in our universe, the life cycles of stars, the environmental composition of different exoplanets, and possibilities for living systems on planets circling other stars.

According to the prevalent theory for the moon's formation — the «giant - impact hypothesis» — the Earth's axis (the invisible line that runs through the planet and connects its two magnetic poles, around which the planet spins each day) used to run perpendicular to its orbit.