Sentence examples for in orbit around it from inspiring English sources
This artist's illustration depicts one of these comparatively calm, older Sun-like stars with a planet in orbit around it.
Several years earlier astronomers had described two separate instances of a pulsar with one or more planets possibly in orbit around it.
Gravity is a two-way thing and 51 Pegasi b was spotted from flickers of movement in the star that could only be explained by an invisible mass in orbit around it.
The star gets stretched into long filaments, some of which are consumed by the black hole, while the rest settle into a flat accretion disk in orbit around it.
"Recent analyses of Kepler data suggest that as many as one star in five will have a habitable, Earth-size planet in orbit around it," Shostak told the lawmakers.
The theory goes that before exploding, the progenitor star has its hydrogen outer coat stolen by a companion star in orbit around it, but astronomers have never before been able to spot the thieving companion because the supernova is so bright.
Following the intentional deorbiting of Mir on 23 March 2001, the ISS became the only space station in orbit around Earth; it retained this distinction until the launch of Tiangong-1 on 29 September 2011.
One of a constellation of 66 small satellites in orbit around the Earth, it spent its time whizzing through space, diligently shuttling signals to and from satellite phones.
But the moon is actually moving in orbit around the earth - it takes about a month for it to complete one circle around us.
In addition, Maven, launched in 2013, possesses the capability to communicate with rovers, landers and other satellites in orbit around Mars, meaning it can extract useful data from multiple points simultaneously, without the need for a 20-minute round trip of the signals to Earth and back.
