Sentence examples for stars circle from inspiring English sources

Late in the 5th century, or possibly in the 4th century, a Pythagorean boldly abandoned the geocentric view and posited a cosmological model in which the Earth, Sun, and stars circle about an (unseen) central fire a view traditionally attributed to the 5th-century Pythagorean Philolaus of Croton.

Astronomers have predicted that stripped stars circle the central black hole of our Milky Way galaxy, Gezari pointed out.

At the Milky Way's heart, stars circle a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*, which contains about 3.7 million times as much mass as our sun.

Two more stars circle the pair at about a thousand times the Earth's distance to the sun.

It's why basketball players at every level, from local high school hopefuls to true N.B.A. stars, circle on their calendars trips to the Garden.

Panel (c) shows the comparison between the exact (solid-lines) and numerical (superimposed stars, circle and crosses) solutions for (alpha=(0.5, 1.1, 1.5)).

For millennia the two dead stars circled each other at nearly the speed of light, shaking off gravitational waves, which in turn pulled them closer together.

At Mile 26, she reached up to touch the banner with the 26 stars circling the Newtown emblem, which dedicated the last mile to the memory of the tragedy at the school, which her youngest daughter attends.

I emerged from the theater feeling like a cartoon character who had been conked on the head, moving woozily and seeing colorful coronas of stars circling in the air.

Astronomers like U.C.L.A.'s Andrea Ghez tracking the orbits of stars circling the center have been able to calculate that whatever is at the center has the mass of four million suns.

Blue straggler stars, circled in the inset image, are formed when older stars or even stellar remnants merge together.