Sentences with phrase «looking around the planet»

And if your idea that God is perfect and he would not allow imperfections in His Bible, then you have not looked around the planet that much — His entire creation is full of imperfections.
Two days before plunging into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft took one last look around the planet it had orbited for more than 13 years.
The camera perspective is zoomed a little so that you have to look around the planet that you're orbiting, but expect the same boulder blasting gameplay that you're already familiar with — albeit rendered in stereoscopic 3D.
Looking around the planet, it's clear from a biodiversity standpoint that all forests — or farming pressures — are not equal.

Not exact matches

Chuckles «Look around chad, we exist, a single cell appeared on this planet and evolved into all forms of life we know today.
Look around chad, we exist, a single cell appeared on this planet and evolved into all forms of life we know today.
My view is that humans have always looked towards a higher being and also if it were the default then why the similarities in Faith around the planet?
Look around and notice all the religions (or spirituality or beliefs, etc) that have been formed by virtually every tribe on the planet (some completely independently, others having been influenced by their neighbors).
When I look ahead to my thirties, the quality I most want to nurture is grace — for myself, for the people around me, and for this planet I call home.
Study science, evolution and take a practical look at the history of life on this planet and even around you.
Google's artificial intelligence has been taught to look for planets around other stars.
And while you are showing your respect for the planet, don't forget its people: when you purchase items from around the world, look for fair trade products.
First we matched our marbles to the planets they looked like the most and then arranged the «planets» around a yellow marble which was the sun.
«Looking at how pigments might be adapted on planets around other stars makes us really appreciate how life is specially adapted to our planet and our sun,» Kiang notes.
They have been looking for signs of planets around other stars, but also discarding false signals while keeping an eye out for anything genuinely strange.
«Ours isn't the only group looking for planets around young stars, and my hope is that astronomers can find enough of them to shed light on some of the nagging questions about planet formation,» Johns - Krull said.
Scientists naively presumed if we ever did discover planets around other stars, these worlds would look, well, familiar.
With Neptune receding, Stone helped guide Voyager 1 to take a look back, creating a panoramic shot of most of the planets lined up around the sun, including the Pale Blue Dot photo of a lonely Earth.
Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.
People would see a magnet move a piece of metal, or a moon trapped in orbit around a planet, or a man in a restaurant levitate a saltshaker just by looking at it, and they would wonder how it was possible.
«We're always trying to look for Earth analogs, and that is an Earth - like planet in the habitable zone around a star very much the same as our Sun,» said Kane, who is the chair of Kepler's Habitable Zone Working Group.
We have a computer program search through all the data looking for little repeating dips; repeating means that you are seeing the same planet going around and around.
After that we have to build a powerful telescope that examines the planets around nearby stars and looks for water, carbon dioxide, and oxygen in their atmospheres — signs that they could support life.
«Understanding the universe in its totality interests me more than looking for life on a planet like Earth around a star like the sun, which is the declared goal of our competitors.
«Looking around the very nearest Sun - like stars is the next logical step in the search for another Earth,» says Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who is developing planet - imaging technologies for Project Blue.
Project Blue's proposed telescope would have a light - gathering mirror just half a meter wide — so small that it could only look for Earth - like planets around two stars: the Sun - like Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, which along with the red dwarf Proxima Centauri form the nearest star system to our own at just over four light - years away.
«The number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy is much greater if we can expect to find several of them around each low - mass star — instead of looking at ten stars to look for a single potentially habitable planet, we now know we can look at just one star and find several of them,» adds co-author Rory Barnes (University of Washington, USA).
During a busy first year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft got its first close - up look at the ringed planet's sixth - largest moon, Enceladus — and wowed scientists in the process.
It relies on eight identical 16 - inch telescopes in Arizona to look for planets around nearby stars that are smaller and cooler than our sun.
If there's gas around and the bodies get large enough, perhaps something on the order of 10 Earth masses or so, then you can start pulling some gas in on top of your rocky core and make something that looks like a gas giant planet, like Jupiter.
The telescopes also were key parts of an international program to look for planets around other stars by means of gravitational microlensing, in which the gravity of a small object passing in front of a star briefly amplifies the star's light.
While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.
NASA's Kepler spacecraft made an unexpected catch in 2011: While looking for planets around other stars it also happened to snap a brace of supernovae, allowing astronomers to observe the shockwave that triggers them for the first time in detail.
It will have a mirror as big as 12 meters across, to both look for habitable planets around other stars and peer deep into the early aeons of the universe.
The co-authors suggest that future studies looking to find and study possibly habitable planets around short - term binary stars should focus on those with longer orbital periods than about 7.5 days.
«TPF will look at each of the nearest few hundred stars for a few hours, and we'll know for sure whether or not there's an Earth - like planet around it,» says jpl scientist and senior project overseer Charles Beichman.
We're looking at extrasolar planets [ones around other stars], but there are also a bunch of places in our solar system that look promising — the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and back again to Mars.
Astronomers could discover a plethora of planets around binary star systems ¬ - stars that rotate around each other — by measuring with high precision how stars move around each other, looking for disturbances exerted by possible exoplanets.
Finally, the United Kingdom is staking a claim to building some of the instruments for PLATO, a mission to be launched by ESA in 2024 that will look for habitable planets around other stars.
You look in the direction of a particular star that, you have heard, has a special planet orbiting around it.
Researchers identify such planets by first looking for those that are situated within the «habitable zone» around their parent stars, which is where temperatures are warm enough for water to pool on the surface.
She plans to look for evidence of them around young star systems, where the outer part of planets are hot and close to their stars.
His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.
He and his colleagues have conducted long - term studies of the dust disks around old stars and the changes in aged red giants such as Betelgeuse, and are preparing the telescopes to look for possible infrared laser signals from newly discovered planets circling nearby stars, in search of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Trailing Earth in an orbit around the sun, Kepler monitors the brightness of about 150,000 stars, looking for periodic dimming that might be caused by a planet passing in front of its star.
This newly discovered huge structure around the system may have implications for what this yet - unseen planetary system looks like around the 8 - million - year - old star, which is in its formative years of planet construction.
«We really have to look for a chemical biosignature because we're never going to be able to measure little green men running around on the surface of a planet,» Zega said.
Here's a look at how Cassini's Grand Finale orbits around Saturn will squeeze even more science out of the long - lived mission ahead of the probe's fiery plunge into the ringed planet on Sept. 15, 2017.
It seems crazy to look for planets around these faint red dwarfs, yet they have a few advantages.
That means that if we were on those far distant galaxies — right this second — looking at Earth with a powerful telescope, we'd be watching the dinosaurs trample around our planet.
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