Sentence examples for direction of earth from inspiring English sources

A more in-depth search also reveals that the star's axis does not point in the direction of Earth, precluding a potentially lethal directed gamma ray burst.

"Most coronal mass ejections are not emitted in the direction of Earth," the report says.

An earlier version misquoted the report as saying "Coronal mass ejections are not emitted in the direction of Earth".

A day on Ryugu is about seven and a half hours long, but the asteroid spins backwards, in the opposite direction of Earth and the sun.

Its equatorial radius is 1,738 km (1,080 miles), and its shape is slightly flattened in a such a way that it bulges a little in the direction of Earth.

Instead, efforts were made to observe them indirectly by noting the gravitational effects that they exerted on their parent stars for example, slight wobbles produced in the parent star's motion through space or, alternately, small periodic changes in some property of the star's radiation, caused by the planet's tugging the star first toward and then away from the direction of Earth.

A three-dimensional terrestrial globe at the 8 o'clock position makes a complete revolution every 24 hours, counterclockwise, the direction of the earth's rotation.

The sensor also contains accelerometers which are used to determine the direction of the earth gravitational field.

The magnetometers in the sensor can be used to compute the direction of the earth magnetic inclination if the environment is free from magnetic disturbances such as ships.

Geomagnetic sensors show the absolute orientation by detecting the direction of the earth's magnetic field lines, but as mentioned previously, we know that the magnetic field can be distorted in indoor spaces with rebars, etc.

General relativity predicts that the phenomenon of "frame-dragging" slowly alters the direction of spin of Earth-orbiting gyroscopes.