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However, think about this: This thing is orbiting the Sun at 10, 20 miles per second.
We can build space tugs, orbiting platforms for holding cryogens and water.
So as a matter of fact, we are required to bring down our second stage after every mission so it doesn't end up being a rocket carcass orbiting earth.
So the Earth is cool, but what we really want to show are the spacecraft, so I'm going to bring the interface back up, and now you're looking at a number of satellites orbiting the Earth.
We have Dawn orbiting Vesta, and we have over here New Horizons on a straight shot to Pluto.
So I'm just going to double-click on Vesta, and here we have Dawn orbiting Vesta, and this is happening right now.
Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science.
Boom, we get planets orbiting about it.
But it's the search for planets orbiting stars far away.
And you'll see here the planets as well as some spacecraft that are also orbiting our sun.
But what's so awesome to consider is that if there are intelligent aliens orbiting on a planet around a star near to us and they build complicated space telescopes of the kind that we're trying to build, all they'll see is this pale blue dot, a pinprick of light.
In this case of searching for other planets like Earth, we are making a new kind of map of the nearby stars and of the planets orbiting them, including [planets] that actually might be inhabitable by humans.
But now, there are almost 2,000 other planets orbiting other stars that we can now detect, measure masses for.
We've even found planets that are orbiting two stars.
If we observe several stars orbiting around an apparently empty point, a black hole could be leading the dance.
Many of those stars have planets orbiting them.
We've long known that the heavens do not revolve around us and that we're residents of a fairly ordinary planet, orbiting a fairly ordinary star, in the spiral arm of a fairly ordinary galaxy.
Then, Galileo's telescope caught Jupiter's moons orbiting around Jupiter, totally ignoring Earth.
If you are in outer space, you are orbiting the Earth: it's called free fall.
Only you're doing this the whole time you're orbiting the Earth, for two, three, four hours, days.
So, how does orbiting work?
My models show that planets orbiting cooler stars could actually be warmer than planets orbiting hotter stars.
The electron isn't really orbiting at all.
This graphic shows near-Earth asteroids orbiting around the Sun, shown in yellow, and swinging close to the Earth's orbit, shown in blue.
Some of them are orbiting now, including the MAVEN spacecraft which is currently orbiting Mars, which I'm involved with and which is led here, out of the University of Colorado.
When astronauts live aboard the International Space Station, they're orbiting the planet 250 miles high.
This is an exoplanetary system discovered last February of 2017, and it got everyone excited because it is seven Earth-sized planets all orbiting a very near red dwarf star.
It's actually much more similar in size to our planet Jupiter and its moons, even though it's seven Earth-size planets orbiting a star.
When the planets were first forming, they were orbiting within a disc of gas, and while inside that disc, they can actually slide around and adjust their orbits to their neighbors until they're perfectly in tune.
His theory of relativity tells us that time passes for everyone, but doesn’t always pass at the same rate for people in different situations, like those travelling close to the speed of light or orbiting a supermassive black hole.
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