Oliver Price, a planetary science Ph.D. student at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, has developed a new image-processing technique to mine through the wealth of data about comet tails. Price's findings offer the first observations of striations forming in the tails, and an unexpected revelation about the Sun's effect on comet dust.
Understanding how dust behaves in the tail -- how it fragments and clumps together -- can teach scientists a great deal about similar processes that formed dust into asteroids, moons and even planets all those billions of years ago. With this study, scientists gain new insights to long-held mysteries. The work sheds light on the nature of striated comet tails from the past and provides a crucial lens for studying other comets in the future. But it also opens a new line of questioning: What role did the Sun have in our solar system's formation and early history?
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein
Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
Thanks for watching - why not support this channel and help us grow.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakg...
Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazin...
See my latest videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazi...
Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc.
Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2
Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9
Music by Keving Macleod
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Insights on Comet Tails Are Blowing in the Solar Wind space videos chris hadfield | |
| 457 Likes | 457 Dislikes |
| 10,761 views views | 3.86M followers |
| Science & Technology | Upload TimePublished on 9 Nov 2018 |
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét