Sentences with phrase «whipping around its star»

They hunted for planetary siblings around 63 Jupiter - sized worlds that take less than seven days to whip around their stars.

Mercury orbits the sun once every 88 days; all of the potentially habitable worlds at TRAPPIST - 1 whip around their star in about six to 12 days.

The planet is 1.6 times the size of Earth, and whips around its star in just three days.

The rocky body is also the fastest known, whipping around its star in less than a day.

A year on Ross 128 b is slightly less than 10 days, so the distance at which it whips around the star is very close.

Its newly discovered planet whips around its star so fast that each year on that world lasts a mere 11.2 days.

Not exact matches

2 is only going to whip those rumors into a frenzy, as this Marvel sequel features Pratt in a role that's even more of a mashup of Harrison Ford's characters in Star Wars and Indiana Jones the first time around.

Black holes do indeed exist... we even have photographic evidence of stars whipping around an invisible (thus black) massive gravitational point at the core of our own galaxy.

Use a star tip to pipe large swirls of whipped cream around the edge of the cheesecake.

If star anise only makes it onto your radar around the holidays, it's time to whip up a batch of this pudding.

Trapped in its gravitational clutches, run - of - the - mill stars whip around this gargantuan black hole like fireflies in a hurricane.

Gas cloud G2 (its orbit in red) approaches the black hole at the center of the Milky Way while stars (orbits in blue) whip around.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Astronomers have seen massive stars fall toward some central object and whip around it, like a comet around the sun, and fly back out.

Then, each star's gravity caught the errant planet and whipped it around in a highly irregular, tight, and retrograde orbit.

Researchers have discovered an Earth - sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.

Researchers at MIT have discovered an Earth - sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours — one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected.

Material from the bow shock gets heated by friction and then is whipped around and behind the star.

GJ 436b resides very close to its star — less than 3 million miles — and whips around it in just 2.6 Earth days.

Years of infrared observations have shown a handful of stars at our galactic center whipping around an invisible object with a strong gravitational tug.

GJ 436b is a Neptune - mass gas giant planet whipping around its parent star every 2.64 days.

It orbits a star that is cooler and smaller than our sun, whipping closely around it in a mere three days.

For example, the «hot Jupiters» — planets around the mass of Jupiter that whip closely around their stars in just days — might be gently nudged closer to their primary parent star by the gravitational hand of a stellar companion.

Speaking of obvious, Daisy Ridley could probably do just fine, and it would be a nice parallel to Ford's own career by having a new Star Wars hero also swinging the whip around.

Additionally, Harrison Ford has chimed in about reprising two of his most famous characters, saying he hasn't made a decision yet with regards to a Star Wars return but he's eager to break out the whip for another go - around with Indiana Jones.

In The Red Book, her touching, provocative, whip - smart romp of a novel where The Big Chill meets Mary McCarthy's The Group, Kogan begins with the Red Book entries for a group of roommates from the class of 1989 who are all headed for their 20th reunion weekend just as the financial and professional walls are crumbling around them: a self - made, childless securities broker, recently pink - slipped, eager to conceive a baby before her fertility window closes; a blue - blood «artist» and former lesbian, married to a writer's - blocked male novelist, living disingenuously and beyond their means off a no - longer - viable trust fund; a former actress, the star of every school production, who has become the stay - at - home wife to a famous Hollywood director; the adopted war orphan, now a foreign correspondent clinging to her dying industry, whose war journalist husband has recently been killed.

In this first issue of «Choosing Sides,» we get a quick whip around to check in on heroes who aren't necessarily starring in «Civil War II» — specifically, Nick Fury (in a prologue of sorts), Night Thrasher and Damage Control.

We have a good variety of soft colourful corals around the north Gilis such as anemones, bubble coral (a favorite turtle food), Daisy coral, whip coral, feather stars, sea fans, sea pens, leather coral, sponges, barrel coral and in some spots we get soft coral colonies.