Sentences with phrase «why solar systems»

In turn, the success or failure of star formation has an impact on how, where, and why solar systems form.

Astronomers have puzzled over why our solar system looks so different.

I used to wonder why our solar system didn't have more planets, but then people who run solar system simulations tried to drop more planets in and found that all the other planets became gravitationally unstable.

Such a scenario could explain why the solar system stands out from other planet families with its lack of oversized rocky worlds hugging the sun.

«However, all these other ways to explain why the solar system is tilted are really hard to test — they all invoke processes that were possibly present really early in the solar system,» Bailey said.

Through its rapid formation, Jupiter acted as an effective barrier against inward transport of material across the disk, potentially explaining why our solar system lacks any super-Earths (an extrasolar planet with a mass higher than Earth's).

We have to figure out why our solar system turned out different from all the others.

Not exact matches

An enduring puzzle about exoplanets, Phys.org writes, is why they are often much closer to their stars than the planets in our own solar system.

Do fundamentalists ever use their reasoning ability an wonder why God, the creator of the Universe, would make such laws and demands on the inhabitants of this small, insignificant planet revolving in this vast solar system, traveling in this vast galaxy, floating through this endless universe?

Why is jupiter in the solar system?

Since the post you're replying to distinguished between «Copernicus» heliocentric model of the solar system» and «the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe» — i.e. the «Copernican principle» — I'm not really sure why you ask that.

Why are worlds being created within he solar systems of those stars?

If there was a God who intelligently designed the universe and life then why would we have anything bigger than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?

Unicorns can run on comet tails and jump from one solar system to the next which is why we never see one...

Why create a solar system with only earth being in the right place?

Funny how star gazing gives one awe and a sense of eternity and in my case it removes the hope of heaven... i.e. there is no heaven, just space with gazeous substance... a place where it is childish and absurd to think we are going when we die... Our solar system / galaxy seem empty of organic life altogether... actually inorganic seems to be the norm... so my faith struggle of the week is how can I possibly believe in after life... when reality shows me decomposition of all that we are, scientific observation does not allow room for a «spirit body» to rise and go in some nebulae... So why do I still need to believe despite this raw evidence... I drive me crazy sometimes...

Why not just create our solar system or even why not create the earth with the sun orbiting Why not just create our solar system or even why not create the earth with the sun orbiting why not create the earth with the sun orbiting us?

My bad HG; well to answer the question I most liked why not just create our solar system.

Oh, and they're sending along a film crew too, because why quarantine reality TV to just one planet in the solar system?

Why not just make our sun explode and destroy the solar system?

Why not learn about the awesome part of the space — our solar system!

That is why the United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from nuclear power and fossil fuels and towards energy efficiency and renewable energies like wind, solar, geothermal and biomass which will provide safe and clean energy and create millions of good - paying jobs.

A dynamic simulation of that process, carried out by A'Hearn's colleague Kevin Walsh of Southwest Research Institute, sheds light on many long - standing puzzles about the solar system: not only where the Oort Cloud comets come from, but also why Mars is so small and airless com - pared with Earth.

This could explain why some asteroids that venture into the inner solar system are pale, while most others are stained a darker hue by the bombardment of space particles (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08709).

Basically, its star is a twin of the sun, so that's why it's intriguing, because the star is similar to the sun in terms of its age and its mass, and yet the planets around it are obviously so much different from the planets of our own solar system.

Uranus spins on an axis almost parallel with the plane of the solar system, rather than perpendicular to it — though why it does this nobody knows.

The effects of gravity leaking into such dimensions would be visible only over long distances — explaining why gravity on smaller scales, such as the size of the solar system, behaves as if there are three spatial dimensions.

Jupiter's early entrance could also explain why the inner solar system lacks any planets larger than Earth.

That, says McKay, «is why there have been no serious proposals to send humans to the outer solar system.

In the fifth instalment of our Unknown Solar System special, we ask why, out of some 280 alien solar systems that have been identified, most look quite unlikeSolar System special, we ask why, out of some 280 alien solar systems that have been identified, most look quite unlikesolar systems that have been identified, most look quite unlike ours

This is in striking contradiction to its presence at the time when the Solar system was formed, and that is why the Galactic radioactive plutonium remained a puzzle.

The work could explain why the planet has a relatively small heart, and paints a grisly picture of the early solar system, where massive, rocky «super-Earths» were snuffed out before they could grow into gas giants.

Astronomy buffs wrote to NASA asking why the United States had no plans to explore the solar system's Wild West.

It is a controversial claim that, if true, would revolutionise our view of the solar system and go some way to explaining why it looks so peculiar when compared with other solar systems.

That's why, ever since astronomers confirmed the first planet outside of our solar system in 1995, they have been looking for signs of water on the 200 - plus exoplanets now known.

However, explaining why the Earth and Moon don't then themselves have unique isotopic characteristics, as most planets in the Solar System do, has been challenging.

It also is hoped the probe will help astrophysicists find out why there's no organized solar wind (made up mostly ions and electrons) found in the vicinity of the sun's surface, even though it whips through the solar system at speeds ranging from about 670,000 to 1.8 million miles (1.1 million to 2.9 million kilometers) per hour.

It's harder to explain why Planet X didn't either loop back around to where it started or leave the solar system entirely.

But it makes it sound like it's a 50 — 50 shot and some of the press attention to the collider is dwelling on the possibility of the creation of these mini black holes that could become, that could grow and, you know, destroy the entire planet, solar system, but so why don't we talk just from all around why that's really press sensationalism.

«It was Chuck's call that if you were serious about exploring the solar system, why not use something the size of the Queen Mary?

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the first author of the Science paper, says that as we begin to find Earth - like planets in other solar systems, some of which may turn out to be similar to Venus, it's becoming urgent to understand why the planet took such a different path from the Earth in its evolution.

Instead, the solar wind is surprisingly steady and placid at the edge of the solar system, and no one knows why.

Extrasolar planets are targets for SETI investigations The count of exoplanets, those outside the Solar System, now has reached the multi-hundreds, with mucho mas inevitably to be counted.Working through financial troubles, SETI is again searching for intelligent life in the great Out There.So paraphrasing the relevant question posed by Enrico Fermi: If they're out there, why aren't they here?The answer may be simple.

«This new class of solar cell is only around four years old, so although it has high performance, people don't understand the system and why it's doing so well,» Leong says.

So why not one in our own Solar System as well?

«Since new telescopes coming down the pike will allow us to probe atmospheres, focusing on both Earth and Venus analogs may help decipher why, in our solar system, one planet allows life to thrive, and one does not, despite having similar masses, comparable densities, etc..»

Why it matters: The quantity of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface is the primary driver of the Earth - atmosphere system.

It is hypothesized that the increase in GCR, when the solar system moves through the spiral arms, is the reason (trigger) why the earth is currently in an ice epoch.

An extraordinarily crowded planetary system is providing critical clues for understanding why most known planetary systems appear different from our own solar system.

There are four gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but why are their moons not made of gas?