Sentence examples for extended atmosphere from inspiring English sources

After a planet reaches a diameter larger than the Moon, it begins to accumulate an extended atmosphere, greatly increasing the capture rate of the planetesimals by means of atmospheric drag.

Observations of the eclipsing binary 31 Cygni show that the K-type supergiant component has an extremely inhomogeneous, extended atmosphere composed of numerous blobs and filaments.

Adequate spectral resolution (or dispersion) might show the star to be a member of a close binary system, in rapid rotation, or to have an extended atmosphere.

Gas drag in Neptune's extended atmosphere or a collision with an existing moon of Neptune slowed Triton enough to place it in an elongated orbit, which was also retrograde and highly inclined.

The sharpest and most detailed pictures ever made of the surging gases above the sun's surface, captured by a NASA satellite, may reveal the source of one of astronomy's most enduring mysteries: what makes the sun's extended atmosphere, or corona, hundreds of times hotter than its surface, the only apparent source of heat?

Subsequent observations suggest that the apparent contraction may be due to shell activity in the star's extended atmosphere.

Although scientists suspect that the extended atmospheres of young giant planets can capture passing bodies, "the origin of these moons is still a mystery," says Luu, who was not a member of the discovery team, "But [the large number of moons] is an important clue that tells us the process must have been very efficient," says Luu. Jewitt agrees and expects to find more moons soon.

The low densities likely result from high-volume extended atmospheres that surround cores of iron, rock, or both.

The dramatic backlighting and high resolution captured by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, which photographed the dwarf planet from 11,000 miles away, also reveals new details of hazes throughout Pluto's "tenuous but extended" nitrogen atmosphere.

The winds are further enhanced by the stellar pulsations that increase the gas density in the extended stellar atmosphere where the dust grains form.

This orbit will allow the Solar Orbiter to make fundamental contributions to our understanding of the acceleration and propagation of energetic particles in the extended solar atmosphere.