Sentences with phrase «as tiny planets»

Not only can shots be taken as Tiny Planets, but you can also view existing photos and videos in that way, as well as being able to share and edit them.

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The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

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.

As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.

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.

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 stars.

Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet's protective magnetic shield.

As disappointing as the news was, it was par for the course; picking out the tiny signatures of planets within trillions of bytes of data is notoriously difficulAs disappointing as the news was, it was par for the course; picking out the tiny signatures of planets within trillions of bytes of data is notoriously difficulas the news was, it was par for the course; picking out the tiny signatures of planets within trillions of bytes of data is notoriously difficult.

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-...]

The next generation of observatories such as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) may be able to image the planet, but only as a tiny blob.

As humankind's first robotic visitor to Pluto approaches its destination, astronomers working to understand what it will find there have uncovered a tiny moon orbiting the dwarf planet.

It just happened again; this video, created with images from the orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the tiny planet's silhouette as it makes its seven - hour journey across the solar disk.

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.

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.

(Pluto has five known moons: Charon, which is half as wide as the dwarf planet itself, and Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx, all of which are tiny.)

The universe is currently described using two distinct frameworks: gravity for larger objects such as planets and black holes, and quantum mechanics for the tiny world of bosons and quarks.

Tiny regions of compositionally distinct rock (red material, known as ultra-low velocity zones), collect at Earth's core - mantle boundary (tan surface), nearly halfway to the center of our planet.

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from Earth.

It turns out that 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko probably did grow out of tiny pebbles, as many suspected — and this may help us learn more about how planets form, too.

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 us.

Thought to have approximate masses between 13 and 80 Jupiters, they can be defined neither as massive planets nor tiny stars; they're entirely different substellar curiosities that possess qualities of both.

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from the Earth.

But as the red dwarf is so tiny and cool, the exoplanet receives a similar amount of solar heating as our planet receives from the sun.

As this visualization shows, the icy moon may look tiny next to our own planet, but it's got 2 - to 3 - times as much H2O as we have here on EartAs this visualization shows, the icy moon may look tiny next to our own planet, but it's got 2 - to 3 - times as much H2O as we have here on Eartas much H2O as we have here on Eartas we have here on Earth.

The rain then interacts with silicate - rocks and forms carbonate rocks in the silicate weathering process — or, in a planet that is so filled with life as ours, tiny organisms can grab the carbon - dioxide dissolved in the ocean to build shells or coral reefs.

As a planet passes between its star and the Kepler telescope, it blocks a tiny portion of the star's light.

Kepler gets better at finding smaller planets with longer periods over time, because it has more time to search for the tiny shadows they cast as they pass in front of their home stars.

Other newly translated excerpts included descriptions of a calendar unique to the northern Greek city of Corinth and tiny orbs — now believed lost to the sandy sea bottom — that once moved across the instrument's face in perfect simulation of the true motion of the five known planets, as well as a mark on the dial that gave the dates of various athletic events, including a relatively minor competition that was held in the city of Rhodes.

A transit - watching telescope like Kepler waits for dips in brightness as a planet travels in front of its star and blocks a tiny fraction of its light.

«Given how large planets are, the addition of a supply from something as small as a typical or even large comet or asteroid would be such a tiny fraction of the total atmosphere that it would be quite insufficient, like trying to fan a huge bonfire with a single, gentle puff.

Saturn's icy 246 - mile - wide moon Mimas (near lower left) appears tiny by comparison to the planet's rings, but scientists think the all of the small, icy particles spread over a vast area that comprise the rings are no more than a few times as massive as Mimas.

Both telescopes are designed to spot the tiny dips in a star's brightness as a planet passes between the telescope and the star.

Should a gravitational wave travel through our planet, a tiny change in distance may be recorded by the interferometer — this represents the minute squeezing and stretching of spacetime that occurs as gravitational waves propagate.

The production also holds a powerful message about the fragility of our planet as these men describe the emotional impact of viewing a relatively tiny Earth hanging in the immensity of space.

As the planet Krypton is about to be destroyed, a scientist called Jor - El (Russell Crowe) fires his infant son Kal - El off into outer space in a tiny pod, which crashlands on Earth.

But more generally, I like to think of the US as but one member of a family of nations, part of the same tiny and vulnerable planet.

Lots of tiny moons appearing the same size as planets are entirely within the realm of possibility.»

Along similar lines, Animal Planet's show, Must Love Cats, recently featured the filmmaking prowess of Cooper the cat, who wears a tiny camera on his collar as he roams the «hood.

Tir Na Nog was one of the first bars and restaurants on the tiny island of Gili Trawangan and the island is regarded as one of Indonesia's best prime holiday getaway spots and famous in travel guides such as the Lonely Planet and the Rough Guides.

Unfortunately, what then follows is a series of events that see you playing as Luke Skywalker slashing up bugs in a tiny section of a planet, Princess Leia shooting folk with a pistol on Theed, a bearded Han Solo in Maz Kanada's cantina, and an admittedly fun (if not slightly frustrating) mission on Sullust with Lando Calrissian.

The object is to keep your tiny red dot orbiting on screen as long as possible, arcing it around planets and stars (represented by larger and smaller abstract shapes) as it swirls and whirls around the screen.

A few weeks later a «little black spot on the sun» reminded us of the sun's massive girth as Venus, a planet similar in size to the earth, appeared as a tiny speck traversing the sun's surface.With the passing of the solstice, the days begin to shorten and yet in LA the temperature continues to rise.

As I see it, too many leaders understand quite well the precarious status of the tiny planet we inhabit; nonetheless, they adamantly refuse to acknowledge or speak openly about the distinctly human - induced predicament that looms ominously before the human community in our time.

A planet with the limitations and the make - up of Earth can not realistically be expected to much longer maintain increasing, profligate over-consumption and adamantine hoarding of resources by millions of people, mostly in the overdeveloped, that we see occurring as a result of actions by a tiny minority of people who possess the wealth and power needed to behave in this way.

Other scientists have considered injecting tiny particles known as aerosols into the stratosphere, the region above the troposphere, as a way to cool the planet, Science magazine reported.

The purity of a Tiny lifestyle should be paired closely with the purity of living as a free person on this planet.