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Of the nearly 7,000 satellites launched since the late 1950s, only about one in seven is currently operational, and in addition to the satellites that are no longer working, there's also hundreds of thousands of marble-sized debris and millions of paint chip-sized debris that are also orbiting around the Earth.
Robotic repair and maintenance could extend the lives of hundreds of satellites orbiting around the Earth.
But another fundamental characteristic about planets is what you don't see here, and that's the star, the Sun, that all of the planets in the solar system are orbiting around.
So any planet orbiting a star that's not our Sun is called an exoplanet, or extrasolar planet.
Fortunately, it’s orbiting the planet fast enough that it never hits the ground.
How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us.
The speed with which galaxies within clusters are orbiting is much too large; it must be embedded in dark matter.
Many years ago I was working on Hubble Space Telescope, and a scientist I worked with came to me with some data, and he said, "I think there may be a picture of a planet orbiting another star in this data."
We had not had any pictures taken of planets orbiting other stars yet, so if this were true, then this would be the first one and we would be the ones who found it.
They had found a planet orbiting another star.
The first planet orbiting another star had been found ... except not so much.
The next guy to come up is a man named Aleksander Wolszczan He takes the microphone and says, "Yeah, so Lyne's team didn't find a pulsar planet, but my team found not just one but two planets orbiting a different pulsar.
This is an image of an actual planet orbiting an actual star.
That is actual data, animated, showing four planets orbiting another star.
And over the next few years, as we keep orbiting, you know, Saturn, we are planning to get closer and closer down to the surface and make more accurate measurements.
So that's getting a lot of interest, and to show you some example of what we did in there, we actually dropped a probe, which was developed by our colleagues in Europe, we dropped a probe as we were orbiting Saturn.
Each one is like a sun with a retinue of planets orbiting around it.
So, of course, we live on this planet that spins around its axis as it's orbiting the Sun.
Here, you can see 26,000 objects orbiting the earth, multiple opinions, and it gets updated in near real time.
And so it wasn't a surprise that when astronauts first started the Mercury program, such as John Glenn orbiting the earth, that charts and maps that he was using were in Futura.
But go back far enough— about 4.6 billion years, and you’d be in the middle of an enormous cloud of dust and gas orbiting a newborn star.
If you look up at the southern sky, you can actually see two of these small galaxies, the largest of the small galaxies that are orbiting our Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
We now know of 60 of these tiny galaxies that are orbiting our own Milky Way.
In the next 15 years, almost 500 planets were discovered orbiting other stars, with different methods.
It's Monday morning, and the news has just broken about this satellite that's now orbiting the planet.
You've figured out an unknown location of a satellite orbiting the planet from a known location on the ground.
It should be pointed out that the original Star Trek TV episode in which the crew of the Enterprise undergoes a space madness while orbiting planet Si 2000 is entitled "The Naked Time", not the "Naked Now".
They dock onto a ludicrously enormous spacecraft that is orbiting a supernova star.
A (very convincing looking) spacecraft is orbiting the dark side of the moon.
The actors are incredible dull and shallow and the plot... but what the hack... there is no plot, just a narcissistic character with some gushy women orbiting around him.
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