Sentences with phrase «as planets form»

We used to think that moons form around planets in the same way as planets form around stars: coalescing from a gaseous disc that surrounded the planet as it formed.

It was thought that moons form around planets just as planets form around stars, by coalescing from a gaseous disc surrounding a central object.

The biggest difference being, that Mars has more iron in its mantle rocks, as the planet formed under marginally more oxidising conditions.»

Precious metals like gold and platinum should have sunk into the Earth's core as the planet formed, leaving almost nothing on the surface.

Not exact matches

And what causes a rocky planet to form as opposed to a gas giant?

Or the discovery of more and more planets being found in the Milky Way that are possible Earth like planets that could host life as we know it or some other forms of life.

As to the, «where are the intermediate forms» argument that has occasionally been put forth in a slightly less ignorant manner, there are a variety of reasons why every intermediate form isn't in the fossil record, the most significant being that of the trillions of organism that have ever lived on the planet, only the extreme minority get fossilized.

«Let's assume (like evolution does) all these came magically out of thin air»... It's been proven that these are created as stars and planets form...

Yeah, that makes much more sense than proven factual evidence of evolution and geology which explains how the earth and all of the other planets were created and how life as we know it in all its forms evolved.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.

If its the planet earth, as someone else mentioned science has a pretty good idea of how this planet formed and how long its been around.

As another example, if the relationship between the strengths of the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force were not close to what it is, then the cosmos would not harbor any stars that explode and spew out life - supporting chemical elements into space or any other stars that form planets.

4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained on the early earth until it was cool enough for oceans to form 7s) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

Using god for science is wrong.Materials be came present after the big bang as atoms.Eventually processes started which created rock.Our planet came together with many materials, such as gold, platinum and others.When a rainforest dies when it dries up, gets buried and compresses to form coal.Oil is made from sea organisms that die and get buried.The brain uses algorithms to process information.God does not need to be included.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

As the cloud that became our solar system collapsed inward, the mass settled into a spinning disc with a big bump in the middle (the Sun), and that disk began collapsing even more to form the planets.

However, I believe that Boff's emphasis on the relationships between human beings and communities is of great value, even in his programmatic - pleading form, as well as the idea of a worldwide responsibility for the planet, which every citizen of this world is to bear.

Religion has been a driving force on this planet for thousands of years as we know it and most - likely 10s of thousands of years in more primitive forms — and imagine that humanity has progressed... who would have thunk it...

As for Christ, we who call ourselves Christians regard him as the uniquely great teacher and very special manifestation of God in our midst: one who shared our existence on planet earth, bore our sins, gave his life for us, and miraculously reappeared to his disciples and others after death — in what form, we do not knoAs for Christ, we who call ourselves Christians regard him as the uniquely great teacher and very special manifestation of God in our midst: one who shared our existence on planet earth, bore our sins, gave his life for us, and miraculously reappeared to his disciples and others after death — in what form, we do not knoas the uniquely great teacher and very special manifestation of God in our midst: one who shared our existence on planet earth, bore our sins, gave his life for us, and miraculously reappeared to his disciples and others after death — in what form, we do not know.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

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.

The evening commenced with staff from the Food Innovation Centre taking groups of guests on a tour which involved wearing 3D glasses and experiencing a virtual supermarket (as well as the planet Mars) across 80 plasma screens joined together to form a semi circle.

With Real Madrid having purchased some of the biggest names on the planet this summer in the form of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, they were expecting to catch up to all conquering Barcelona this term and have appeared to do just that as they lead the way in the Spanish league.

- Wenger can be so insane to do it.The man is out of this world and complety insane.He can not see what it is obvious for the entire world.To have better players on the bench and to keep favouring the same out - of - form or not good enough players week after week is madness.To play for draw from the beginning against an awful team which got beaten by the entire league on a daily bases - this is something unimaginable.It is not Mertesacker fault for being embarrased by any player on the planet, it is the manager fault for exposing him as a laughing point of focus.Wenger must go, the man is deluded, he is scarred to take any risk for success.Well, guess what - only showing courage and breaking the risk can bring you success.Not the case - I predict a chain of defeats following, with the cherry on top being a big defeat against Spurs - a team which, despite our hate, plays real football (with great results I must say).

Starting with how the planet was formed it moves forward and explains rocks, fossil formation as well as volcanoes and earthquakes.

New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss offers a potential solution to a longstanding problem in the prevailing theory of how rocky planets formed in our own Solar System, as well as in others.

Carr points out that rather than seeing the planet directly, they are detecting the gas as it swirls around and onto the forming planet.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

Astronomers also will examine the birthplaces of planets, rotating disks of gas and dust known as protoplanetary disks that surround newly formed stars.

The spectacular discs that ALMA has imaged around much younger stars, such as HL Tauri, contain much more material that is in the process of forming planets.

As the ring system spits out moonlet after moonlet, the small objects merge to form larger moons, which may merge in turn as they spiral outward from the planeAs the ring system spits out moonlet after moonlet, the small objects merge to form larger moons, which may merge in turn as they spiral outward from the planeas they spiral outward from the planet.

Dust belts are the remains of material that did not form into larger bodies such as planets.

The fluff - balls are also rich in carbon, which is crucial for life but would not occur naturally in a planet that formed as close to the sun as Earth did.

The bulk of the solar system's regular satellites — those moons that stick close to their planets in roughly equatorial orbits — formed this way, rather than taking shape simultaneously with the planets as a direct result of planet formation, French astrophysicists have concluded.

In contrast to these seemingly random rotational motions, the moons follow a surprisingly predictable pattern as they orbit the binary planet formed by Pluto and Charon.

In the analysis — this was [all] originally published as a scientific paper in Nature last fall and then we see it again here in Scientific American in a more a distilled form — what we show is that in terms of climate change, in terms of nitrogen pollution into our waterways and oceans, and in terms of biodiversity loss, we have already caused irreparable harm to the planet.

The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.

It is thought that as the Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago, some of these organic molecules were transported from interstellar space to the planet forming disk.

Mars has been viewed as an almost entirely basaltic planet, with igneous rocks that are dark and relatively dense, similar to those forming the Earth's oceanic crust, Wiens noted.

This technique can determine whether a spot on the planet's surface is rising or falling over time, such as near a volcano on the verge of erupting or a sinkhole about to form.

In the old view, the planets formed in an orderly manner, born from a swirling disk of gas and dust, known as the solar nebula, into stable orbits at their present locations from the sun.

Understand the inside of a moon, and you'll know how it formed, as well as how it interacts with the planet that it orbits.

To begin with, they orbited close to the plane of the ecliptic in the same direction as the planets, but their orbits were deformed by the galaxy's tidal force and by interactions with nearby stars, gradually becoming more inclined and forming a more or less spherical reservoir,» Morais said.

Moons are generally thought to form in one of two ways — either by coalescing from the same cloud of debris as their parent planet, or as wandering objects captured by the parent's gravitational pull.

The tilt of the solar system's orbital plane has long befuddled astronomers because of the way the planets formed: as a spinning cloud slowly collapsing first into a disk and then into objects orbiting a central star.

Globular clusters contain far lower concentrations of the planet - forming heavy elements — such as carbon, oxygen, and iron — than do our sun and nearby stars, leading some to suspect that it might be difficult for planets to form there.

But planetary bodies that formed in different parts of the solar system generally have different isotopic compositions, so different that the isotopic signatures serve as «fingerprints» for planets and meteorites from the same body.

It's hard to know how they formed: The brown dwarfs seem too heavy to have formed from the slow agglomeration of material, like jumbo - sized planets such as Jupiter.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»