Example sentences of "around [art] sun " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , as the Earth goes around the sun once every year , its two hemispheres alternate between receiving the sun 's rays more directly ( in summer ) or obliquely ( in winter ) . |
| 2 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 3 | For solar flares , a system of early warning satellites around the Sun could detect the first sign of trouble . |
| 4 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 5 | The more ancient Antarctic specimens provide an opportunity for meteoriticists to compare the types of planetary debris that followed orbits around the Sun and across the Earth 's path half a million years ago , with those colliding with the Earth today . |
| 6 | And the detectors ' stability means that they can even measure radiation from the faint cloud of dust around the sun which produces the zodiacal light . |
| 7 | Rather , according to Lyman Spitzer of Princeton University writing in 1939 , it would spread out around the Sun as a tenuous cloud . |
| 8 | Constantly colliding ‘ supergrains ’ would cohere increasingly under the redistributive influence of transferred angular momentum , aided by a gradually shrinking volume of space around the Sun . |
| 9 | Astronomically , this dance is representative of the movement of the planets ( Gopis ) around the sun which Krishna symbolizes . |
| 10 | 3 An unidentified vandal drew a Hitler moustache on the portrait of Maggie Thatcher in the Commons tea-room. 4 The Roman Catholic Church finally admitted it had been wrong to condemn Galileo for saying that Earth orbited around the Sun , in 1633. 5 Following the Windsor Castle fire , it was suggested the Queen might move into Prince Andrew 's house Sunninghill , nicknamed ‘ Tesco 's ’ by the Daily Star . |
| 11 | Like the other planets it travels around the Sun in an ellipse , which means that at some times it is closer to the Sun than at others . |
| 12 | However , the truth is not quite as simple as this , because the planet does not exactly retrace its path each time it goes around the Sun . |
| 13 | His analysis suggested that the Dogon knew that the planets of the solar system went around the sun in ellipses , rather than in circles ; they knew also that the dwarf-star companion of Sirius ( the Pup ) existed and was made up of very compressed matter . |
| 14 | I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet . |
| 15 | Some were later exploited by Copernicus in his attempt to establish that the earth both turns on its axis and revolves around the sun . |
| 16 | To set the earth revolving around the sun was to set all hell on the move . |
| 17 | In Kepler 's interpretation there was even a sense in which the earth remained central : Just as the sun had occupied the central orbit in the sequence radiating out from earth , so now the earth enjoyed that same centrality with respect to orbits around the sun . |
| 18 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 19 | Mars moves in an ellipse around the sun . |
| 20 | ‘ Planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ is more precise than ‘ Planets move in closed loops around the sun ’ , and is consequently more falsifiable . |
| 21 | ‘ Planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ is more precise than ‘ Planets move in closed loops around the sun ’ , and is consequently more falsifiable . |
| 22 | And if the earth , as well as spinning , moves bodily around the sun , why does n't it leave the moon behind ? |
| 23 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 24 | Newton seems at that time to have accepted a variant of the ethereal vortices that Descartes had set rotating around the Sun to carry the Earth and the planets in orbital motion . |
| 25 | 8 The earth takes 365¼ days to go around the sun . |
| 26 | The daily spin of the Earth , the roughly monthly orbit of the moon , and the yearly passage of the Earth around the sun , were all used to measure the flow of time . |
| 27 | So , as our planet moves on its yearly orbit around the sun , the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun for part of the year , and the southern hemisphere is tilted towards it for the other part . |
| 28 | One typical law is Kepler 's relation between the period P of a planet 's motion around the sun , and the radius R of its orbit : |
| 29 | I thought we decided there was n't any need to have a mental picture — a picture of the wonkyness of the three-dimensional space around the Sun , or Earth . |
| 30 | The natural assumption was that the electrons were in orbit around the nucleus as the earth is in orbit around the sun . |