Sentences with phrase «on a distant planet of»

Midway through James Cameron's 2009 sci - fi action film «Avatar,» set on the distant planet of Pandora, lead character Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) observes, «Out there is the true world.

In Heavy Gear Assault players can become pilots on the distant planet of Terra Nova, fighting in a high - stakes game called Gear Dueling.

On a distant planet of weird creatures, a mad scientist schemes to turn the whole universe boring and flat with a super bomb that turns everything into paper and cardboard.

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Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...

It is rather ironic that we can forecast the far distant future of this planet more clearly than we can foresee the immediate human future on its surface.

No, that's not the name of the newest muppet, nor is it a distant relative of the cutest, funniest little birds on the planet.

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets.

Co-authored by David Catling, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, the study peers deep into our planet's history to devise a novel recipe for finding single - celled life on faraway worlds in the not - too - distant future.

«Mars mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets.»

The space - warping quirks of relativity that lead to deviations from Newton's earlier theory of gravity only become obvious on very large scales, but our passive observations of distant planets, stars and galaxies have yet to deliver anything...

In a paper posted to arXiv on 16 June and soon to be published in The Astronomical Journal, the OSSOS team describes eight of its most distant discoveries, including four of the type used to make the initial case for Planet Nine.

Instead, like a parent maintaining the arc of a child on a swing with periodic pushes, Planet Nine nudges the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects such that their configuration with relation to the planet is presPlanet Nine nudges the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects such that their configuration with relation to the planet is presplanet is preserved.

Some researchers believe the mere presence on Earth of a meteorite from its distant neighbor underscores the possibility that life has been transferred from planet to planet.

However, more - massive stars penetrating the Oort cloud in the distant past might have triggered major comet showers that pummelled the planets and led to some of the mass extinction events on Earth, says Mamajek.

Furthermore, chances are slim that Proxima b transits at all — to see the planet's shadow we would have to view its orbit essentially edge - on, like watching the rim of a spinning record on a light - years - distant turntable.

On the face of it, detecting a moon around a planet orbiting a distant star seems like a spectacularly difficult task, but with a bit of luck today's technology may be able to do it.

Finally, such observations might help to envisage the distant future of our planet, when, in 3 or 4 billion years, the Sun will become a red giant and will circulate in our atmosphere making life impossible on Earth.

In January, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists at the California Institute of Technology, speculated on the existence of a ninth planet based on an odd alignment of six distant icy bodies.

McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, ventures to some of Earth's most extreme environments to study the closest facsimiles he can find to Mars and other distant outposts, on a mission to learn how life might exist beyond our planet.

Simulations indicate that, given Rhea's size and distant orbit around Saturn, this moon could potentially hang on to a ring for millions of years or more before the planet's pull overcomes Rhea's hold.

A wordless but eerily expressive seven - minute film, Grounded explores the last moments of astronauts stranded on a distant planet.

When it takes to the skies in 2001, it will train an infrared eye on interstellar clouds, the center of the Milky Way, planets in the solar system and distant galaxies — many of the same things that sirtf will look at a few years hence.

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

What was once considered a sure - fire sign of life on distant planets may not be so sure - fire after all, a new study suggests.

Microlensing works on a much smaller scale: Individual stars or planets focus the light of more distant stars, making the background star appear to grow brighter and then dim again.

The more distant planets and their squadrons of satellites remained as tantalising dots of light even with a telescope, allowing plenty of scope for imagination about conditions on those alien worlds.

Since Pluto's demotion from the brotherhood of planets a few years back, Neptune has taken on the mantle of responsibility of most distant planet in the solar system.

If further research confirms the model's accuracy, it could also open new avenues for exploring the origin of life on Earth, and for understanding the role hydrogen gas might play in supporting life in a wide range of extreme environments, from the sunless deep - sea floor to distant planets.

Nesvold and her colleague Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the findings Thursday during the «In the Spirit of Lyot 2015» conference in Montreal, which focuses on the direct detection of planets and disks around distant stars.

In the recent science fiction film Passengers, a huge spaceship flies at half the speed of light on a 120 - year - long journey toward the distant planet Homestead II, where its 5000 passengers are to set up a new home.

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light - years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.

ASU astronomers will join with geophysicists and geochemists in a $ 6.1 million grant to ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration that will try to explore how to tell whether chemical signs of life on distant planets arose from geological processes or biological ones.

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets Science News Magazine

What can be observed as signs of carbon - based life on distant planets?

The artist's concept depicts Kepler - 186f, the first validated Earth - size planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.

The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems form and evolve.

(McGill University) The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be — a discovery that challenges scientists» understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.

But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars.

But they quickly identified the source of the change: the darker mass of a planet passing between the distant star and our vantage point on Earth.

While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was «on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history» during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.

When they turned the Hubble Space Telescope on a distant globular cluster of stars, astronomers expected to find fifteen or twenty planets.

It examines the transit of planets across distant stars, which gives researchers an idea of the candidates ability to how life based on its orbit and size.

Hubble has something for everybody, from atmospheres of extra-solar planets to the most distant galaxies, and therefore has had an immeasurable impact on society's scientific imagination and curiosity.

On December 5, 2011, astronomers working on the Kepler Mission announced their first confirmation an extra-Solar, super-Earth-sized planet orbiting within the «habitable zone» of a distant Sun - like star (spectral class G5), which was discovered using KepleOn December 5, 2011, astronomers working on the Kepler Mission announced their first confirmation an extra-Solar, super-Earth-sized planet orbiting within the «habitable zone» of a distant Sun - like star (spectral class G5), which was discovered using Kepleon the Kepler Mission announced their first confirmation an extra-Solar, super-Earth-sized planet orbiting within the «habitable zone» of a distant Sun - like star (spectral class G5), which was discovered using Kepler.

Synopsis: In this third sequel to «Planet of the Apes,» the apes turn the tables on the human Earth population when they lead a revolt against their cruel masters in the distant year of 1990.

Antal's main strength is his versatility, from an astonishingly durable slasher like Vacancy to Armored, an urban western / neo-noir revolving around a stolen armored car, to Predators, a sci - fi actioner about a group of human killers and soldiers that are hunted for sport by the titular aliens on a distant planet.

But his first attempt to stop her fails: He's deprived of his all - powerful hammer, and winds up imprisoned on Sakaar, a distant planet where he's forced into gladiatorial combat against his old friend the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), who doesn't seem to recognize him.