Sentences with phrase «tiny planet in»

but in reality we are a very tiny planet in a sea of billions of galaxies which each galaxy has billions of stars and planets.

Not exact matches

We should continue to evolve — hopefully, evolving both biologically and technologically to a point where we can leave our tiny planet and venture out into the greater universe — there evolving in myriad ways to survive and flourish.

We're an upstart species on tiny planet, in a boring solar system, in an average galaxy among millions of galaxies.

God: Well, in one of those of galaxies, there's one tiny little star that has a few planets circling around it.

Our bodily cells are only a tiny fraction of the subhuman individuals in existence; also each of us is but one of countless individuals on our own or perhaps higher levels (recall the billions of possibly inhabited planets that astronomers believe exist).

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

While the world we inhabit is confined to planet earth, we know that this is only the tiniest speck in a universe so vast that our minds can barely imagine it.

We understand too that our earthly home is a tiny planet spinning in space, and that it is strictly finite and limited.

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERIn a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERin caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERin their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the starIn the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the starin cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the starin the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the starin the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

In 2007, the tiny Comet Holmes grew and expanded so much that the gassy diameter of the comet's coma, or atmosphere, became larger than the diameter of the sun, with particles reaching all of the planets.

When a planet orbits in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.

«The diamonds have delivered these well - preserved materials to us at the surface,» says study co-author Steven Shirey, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. «They're a classic example of how the tiniest bits of material can tell us big things about our planet.»

Tiny pockets of sulfur and iron (yellow) inside a diamond (blue) inside a meteorite suggest the meteorite was once part of a long - lost planet in the early solar system.

Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new planets in Kepler data by searching for tiny dips in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it.

The planets circle a tiny, dim, nearby star in tight orbits all less than 2 weeks long.

The tiny planet cooled quickly, shrinking in size and causing its crust to crumple up and form wrinkly ridges.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

The planets were discovered by the transit method, which detects potential planets as their orbits cross in front of their star and cause a very tiny but periodic dimming of the star's brightness.

Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the planet for NASA's Cassini «Wave at Saturn» event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth in turn, as a teeny, tiny dot of -LSB-...]

But before telescopes for prospective exoplanet - hunting missions can be designed, astronomers must know if there is a fundamental limit to their ability to see a tiny, dim planet next to a bright star when the system is shrouded in dust.

Measuring the brightness of a star over time, he reasoned, would require a much smaller space telescope than trying to take a picture sharp enough to resolve a planet or a tiny loop in the star's trajectory.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

They carefully monitored 88 selected stars in Messier 67 [3] over a period of six years to look for the tiny telltale motions of the stars towards and away from Earth that reveal the presence of orbiting planets.

The planet is just about reachable; an existing private venture claims it can get tiny probes to Proxima b's star system in just 20 years.

Those planets range from the tiny to true behemoths, but most exciting is that more Earth - sized and other smallish worlds are emerging, providing new hope for life in the cosmos.

In these disks, dust is coalescing and tiny chunks of rock are colliding to become larger masses of matter and, over the course of millions of years, planets.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

By measuring the times at which these transits occurred very carefully, we were able to discover that the two planets are locked in an intricate dance of tiny wobbles giving away their masses.»

NANTES, FRANCE — Despite basking in the sun's fiery glow, tiny Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is probably home to extensive ice fields.

Models suggest that gravity clumps the dust together into tiny pebbles that in turn form larger rocks that eventually become planets.

From Earth, big - dish radar can precisely measure the changing tilt of Mercury's rotation axis as well as what one of the co-authors calls «the planet doing the twist»: tiny changes in its rotation speed due to solar tides.

The two methods of detecting extrasolar planets, nicknamed «wobble and blink,» involve plotting tiny shifts in a star's motion caused by the gravitational tug of its orbiting planets, and catching the slight dimming in a star's light that occurs whenever a planet passes between the star and an observer's telescope.

For this, TESS is relying on follow - up studies by ground - based telescopes, which can watch for tiny periodic Doppler shifts in the frequency of a star's light caused by an orbiting planet tugging on it.

Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers» term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) in the swirling disk around them form tiny «seeds» that attract other matter and slowly grow into planets.

The main objective of the Kepler mission was to find planets, which it does by detecting the periodic dimming made from a planet moving in front of a star, and hence blocking out a tiny bit of starlight.

The 305 - meter Arecibo radio telescope detected tiny variations in the blips from a pulsar, revealing the Earth - like masses of its planets.

Based on the distance from the central star and the distribution of tiny dust grains, the baby planet is thought to be an icy giant, similar to Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System.

In the 6 years since the tiny wobbling of a distant star betrayed the presence of the first extrasolar planet, several teams had methodically brought the exoplanet count to 38.

That's because one way Kuiper belt objects might have formed in situ, Parker says, is under an emerging model of planet formation in which turbulences and vortexes in the protoplanetary nebula allow many tiny particles to coalesce extremely rapidly into big ones.

In recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from uIn recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from uin its star, tugging it towards and away from us.

The New Horizons spacecraft finally spied the dwarf planet's two tiniest satellites, Kerberos and Styx, in a series of images taken from April 25 to May 1, when the probe was nearly 90 million kilometers from Pluto.

It has several tiny moons either very close in or far away from the planet — most of which orbit in the direction of the planet's spin — and one huge one, Triton, orbiting in the opposite direction.

The GMT aims to discover Earth - like planets around nearby stars and the tiny distortions that black holes cause in the light from distant stars and galaxies.

It did this by detecting the periodic dimming made from a planet moving in front of a star, and hence blocking out a tiny bit of starlight.

This is a tiny volume of the Milky Way Galaxy, yet contains the planets we are most likely to be able to characterize in the future — and the planets which mankind will be able to visit, if interstellar travel ever becomes a reality.

The spacecraft did so by staring at roughly 150,000 stars in a celestial patch representing 1 / 400th of the sky, waiting for tiny dips in starlight that would signal a planet was passing by, blocking a little bit of light.