All posts tagged "rotation"

Astronomy and Space

It’s all in the rotation: Exploring planets orbiting distant stars

An artist’s impression of the polar orbit of WASP-79b. Credit: ESO/B Addison, CC BY-NC The first...

Astronomy and Space

Clocking the rotation rate of a supermassive black hole

An illustration of the binary black hole system in OJ287. The predictions of the model are...

Earth

The ancient rotation of the Iberian Peninsula left a magnetic trace

The Cantabrian orocline is a large structure that bends the Variscan orogen of Western Europe in...

Astronomy and Space

Hubble directly measures rotation of cloudy ‘super-Jupiter’

An illustration of a planet that is four times the mass of Jupiter and orbits 5...

Earth

Scientists reveal that the rotation of Earth’s core holds a clue to understanding global sea-level rise

Mathieu Dumberry from the University of Alberta is one of only a few people in the...