The phrase "around its axis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something rotating or revolving, as in the following example: "The Earth rotates around its axis once every 24 hours."
As a result, when the liquid core rotated around its axis, it swirled against the solid mantel, giving rise to the dynamo.
When a three dimension image of figure 2B was constructed and rotated around its axis, it could be distinguished that the dots were scattered around the cells making it difficult to distinguish between membrane and cytoplasmic specific localization (Additional file 1).
Before such observations were possible, space-weather watchers were often surprised when active regions appeared from behind the sun as it rotated around its axis every four days or so.Helioseismology has also been used to probe below the surface.
It's more massive than the sun, it's smaller than New York City, and in the time you take to read this sentence, it spins around its axis 2000 times.
The length of day is determined by the rotation of the earth around its axis, and it is always the same -- 86,000 seconds.
Interestingly, in the single beam configuration, the beam induced an optical torque on the embryo causing it to rotate around its axis (Fig. 6(B), Media 3) due to the embryo's inhomogeneity and the mismatch between the position of the beam focus and the centre of mass of the embryo.
During opposition the thumb is rotated around its long axis; it has been said that human civilization depends upon the opposition of the thumb.
A spheroid (ellipsoid of revolution) is obtained by the rotation of an ellipse around its minor axis (oblate ellipsoid) or its major axis (prolate ellipsoid).
The omni-directional camera acquired an image around its optical axis and it covered the outside of the field of view of the wide-angle camera i.e., left, right, upward, and downward sides.
The attitude dynamics and manoeuvre survey in this paper is performed for a mission scenario involving a penetrator-type spacecraft: an axisymmetric prolate spacecraft spinning around its minor axis of inertia performing a 90° spin axis reorientation manoeuvre.
According to the force analysis, a planar problem is considered where input shaft, centre disc, and planetary disc have two degrees of freedom: one translational around its own axis and one rotational along the x axis.
