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Moon Formation - V3
... . Within weeks of the event, the debris formed a Saturn-like ring around the
Earth. Later collisions in this ring led to the formation of the Moon, probably within just a few thousand
years. Initially the Earth and Moon were much closer together than ...
Keywords:
... rth, Blender 3D, crescent phase, earth, formation, impact, planet, planet Earth, ...
Earth Then and Now
Illustration conceptualizing the formation of the
Moon. The left side shows a collision between the early Earth and a smaller rocky
protoplanet about the size of modern-day Mars. The right shows the Earth and Moon
today....
Keywords:
3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, birth, collision, crescent phase, formation, impact, p...
Sandwiched Planets
... rocky planets are formed - sandwiched between the two gas giants. 'This is very
different to the conventional view of planet formation,' said Farzana Meru, one of the researchers,
'where planets form sequentially from the inside to the outside of the ...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, planet formation, press release, prop...
Active Galactic Nucleus - V3
... high temperatures by friction, before falling into the hole. In some cases,
magnetic fields thread the disc, and lead to the formation of beams of charged particles, which are
expelled at great velocities, approaching light speed, along the rotation ...
Keywords:
... physics, beam, birth, black hole, disc, formation, galaxy, jet, nucleus, outflow ...
Sandwiched Planets - Portrait
... rocky planets are formed - sandwiched between the two gas giants. 'This is very
different to the conventional view of planet formation,' said Farzana Meru, one of the researchers,
'where planets form sequentially from the inside to the outside of the ...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, planet formation, press release, prop...
Sandwiched Planets - Landscape
... rocky planets are formed - sandwiched between the two gas giants. 'This is very
different to the conventional view of planet formation,' said Farzana Meru, one of the researchers,
'where planets form sequentially from the inside to the outside of the ...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, planet formation, press release, prop...
AGB Star
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Imperial College have discovered and
old, evolved star interloping through a youn star-forming region (centre right).
Astronomers previously thought that evolved stars cannot encounter young stars ad
t...
Keywords:
... se, proplyd, protoplantetary disc, star formation, stars, University of Sheffiel ...
Synestia
Artwork of a synestia. This is a hypothetical torus of molten rock that is believed
to form when two similarly sized rocky bodies collide - one may have arisen when the
Earth was struck by a Mars-sized world called Theia, inside of which the Moon was...
Keywords:
accretion, Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, birth, Blender 3D, collison, Earth, fo...
Nebula Flight
Animation of a flight into a dense cloud of dust within a bright emission nebula.
Emission nebulae glow pink due to ionisation of the hydrogen gas they contain by the
radiation from hot young stars recently born within them. The densest regions of
ga...
Keywords:
animation, Blender 3D, dust, gas, globule, HII region, nebula, starbirth, star f...
Heavy Bombardment
Between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, the Solar System was in turmoil. Known as the
Late Heavy Bombardment, the period was characterized by an enhanced rate of asteroid
impacts in the inner Solar System - remnants from the planet building processes ...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, astronomy, Blender 3D, crescent phase, formation, heavy bombard...