Sentences with phrase «at large distances from»

Therefore, all long - lived gases become well - mixed at large distances from their sources or sinks over a period of one to two years...»
to determine the role of solar wind in configuring the planetary magnetospheres, especially at large distances from the Sun and to understand the atmospheric energy balance and magnetosphere coupling at the giant planets;
This means that the enclosed mass continues to increase even though the amount of visible, luminous matter falls off at large distances from the center.
But if the ill - fated moon is ripped apart 20 million years from now, at a larger distance from Mars, the ring could last 100 million years or so.
Forgan and his co-authors found that when galaxies collide, the habitable zone is transformed and then gradually settles back to its general trend: Stars at larger distances from the galactic center have higher chances of hosting planets hospitable to life.
One explanation is that the long fractures in the ice crust experience more stress as gravitational tidal forces push and pull on the moon and so open vents at larger distances from Jupiter.

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Though executives at large drugmakers, which also routinely enact large price increases for established products, were quick to distance themselves from Shkreli, the House oversight committee seems intent on drawing comparisons across the industry.
Between the ages of 24 — 36 months, most toddlers can complete the following gross motor skills: Jump from the bottom step Jump a distance of about 8 inches Jump on a trampoline with 2 hands held Begin to stand on one foot Begin to ride a tricycle Catch a large ball At 3 years old, most toddlers can complete the...
Additional fees may apply, if we must deliver via stairs or to venues located at long distances from the loading zone (including parks, large estates, or any location that presents delivery complications).
Which points to the larger problem for Cuomo: Trying to keep his distance from the legislature and dominate it at the same time is becoming an untenable straddle.
Although they last mere milliseconds at any single frequency, their great distances from Earth — and large quantities of intervening plasma — delay their arrival at lower frequencies, spreading the signal out over a second or more and yielding a distinctive downward - swooping «whistle» across the typical radio receiver band.
In July astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech announced the discovery of UB313, a body larger than Pluto, orbiting at about three times Pluto's distance from the sun.
They have found giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting their star at more than twice the distance Neptune is from the sun — another region where theorists thought it was impossible to grow large planets.
But to the astronomers» astonishment, the RR Lyrae stars do not follow football - shaped orbits, but have large random motions more consistent with their having formed at a great distance from the centre of the Milky Way.
Then they added a large control sample of 1264 nonactive galaxies at similar distances, between 3.5 billion and 7.5 billion light - years from Earth.
Thus, he concludes, a large fraction of extrasolar planets «will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort» and some will be «at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature».
Whereas the «loudness» of each chirp has clearly conveyed each event's distance from us, LIGO's twin stations can at present only vaguely constrain their celestial sources, which may lie anywhere within huge swaths of the heavens containing thousands upon thousands of large galaxies.
The region contains relatively large quantities of some of the most important basic building blocks of life, and these are concentrated at a potentially habitable distance away from the parent star.
What is more, improved technology should also allow larger observatories such as Keck to move from the few giant planets already imaged — all of which orbit their host stars at relatively large distances — to closer - in worlds more like our own.
«It is the first time that we have seen outflowing cold gas moving at these large speeds at such large distances from the supermassive black hole,» said Claudia Cicone, a PhD student at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and lead author on the first of the two papers.
To decipher the large - scale behavior of the cosmos, scientists need to determine the rate at which galaxies at various distances are moving away from us.
«It's pretty clear that these actions are at least in part a response to negative press coverage of the industry, and likely an effort of the larger players to distance themselves from the Martin Shkreli's of the world,» Hinds said.
Here the outermost shell electron is located at such a large distance from the atomic nucleus that the radius of the atom is blown up by a factor of about 1000.
A larger sixth planet, closer in mass to Saturn, also appears significantly in the data at a greater distance from HD 10180, but the study's authors note that the signal could be caused by a long - term magnetic cycle on the star rather than the tug of an orbiting planet.
It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).
The structure of the water - rich polyamide / water system obtained from MD calculation showed that the water clusters are well connected to each other, and a relatively large number of water molecules are present at a distance over 3 Å from the polyamide.
The research, conducted with expert assistance from colleagues at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (IMCCE) of the Observatoire de Paris, revealed that the 12 km moon orbits the large 250 km asteroid every 3 days at a distance of 600 km in an ellipse inclined almost 45 degrees with respect to the asteroid's equator.
At a distance of about 15,800 light - years (4,850 pc) from Earth, Omega Centauri is one of the few globular clusters visible to the naked eye — and appears almost as large as the full Moon when seen from a dark, rural area.
Super-Earths represent the largest population of known planets mostly found at sub-AU distances from their host stars.
There's a gas giant located about 330 light - years from here that's not only unusually large, it's also orbiting its host star at an incredibly close distance.
Planet «c» or «2» - A residual drift in the radial velocity data over several years suggest the presence of an even larger planet in an outer orbit, at about 3.73 AUs from 47 UMa (between the average orbital distances of Jupiter and the Main Asteroid Belt in the Solar System).
Using spectral synthesis techniques, we find that its temperature is 9800K + / -300 K, that its projected area is a remarkably large 100 stellar areas, and its emitting volume resides at a distance of 1 AU from the star.
Ceres, a dwarf planet or giant asteroid (depending on the definition used), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, orbiting at 2.8 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the sun).
Many of them are found at intermediate distances from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, with the largest number occurring at a distance of 10,000 light - years.
So far the direct detection has only been able to show giant exoplanets, several times larger than Jupiter and orbiting at great distances from their stars.
The second planet from the Sun at about seven tenths of the Earth - Sun distance, Venus is the sixth largest planet but has no moon.
We are proud to be the largest meeting of physician - scientists trainees from around the world and will hold our plenary sessions at the prestigious Fairmont Hotel, within walking distance to the heart of Chicago's cultural district.
We used an improved method to derive the completeness limits of the observations, which takes into account the elongated point spread function of stars at relatively large distances from the adaptive optics guide star.
By taking advantage of Spizer's large distance from the Earth, the researchers were able to observe the light curve of the event from the vantage point of the orbiting telescope and study its variations with time in order to check them against similar observations that were conducted at the same time with the OGLE telescope on Earth.
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers also revealed the detection of a larger super-Earth «c» with around 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7) Earth - masses at an average distance of 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU from host star Gl 682.
At larger planetary orbital distances, the coronagraph is better able to remove the starlight from the area around the planet.
Most renewable energies tap diffuse intermittent sources often at a distance from the user population, thus requiring large - scale energy storage and transport.
On July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroid.
A student can take a distance learning course from the University of Arizona, and the course credit can apply to graduation requirements at a large number of colleges and universities, without geographical restrictions.
Is this a focus - group - driven attempt to distance the new vehicles from their supposedly uncool predecessors, or is there some larger nameplate - shuffling strategy at play here?
For those of you who have not been following along — and frankly, I have no expectation that the larger percentage of my readers will be, because it's a topic that at best affects them from a distance — Amazon is trying to force publishing house Hachette to agree to more - favorable - to - Amazon contract clauses.
The area has to be large enough so your puppy can sleep and play at a distance from his potty area — dogs dislike soiling the area that they eat, sleep and play in.
Retirees at Grand Baymen will appreciate the large number of hospitals, clinics and private practices just a short distance from home, almost all of which are inexpensive.
Deevana Plaza Krabi Aonang (former Mercure Krabi Deevana) is located at a short distance from Ao Nang Beach, the most popular resort in Krabi Province.Ao Nang Beach offers a large choice of restaurants (Thai and International), shops and nightlife venues, as well as direct access by long - tail or speed boats to Railay Beach and to a large number of small islands located a few minutes off the Krabi coast.Made of low - rise buildings built in a contemporary style, the hotel offers 213 Suites and Rooms, each of them with a private balcony.Standard amenities such as cable / satellite television, VCD - DVD player, mini-bar fridge, air conditioning, Wi - Fi, to name just a few - are available in each room.
The world's second largest barrier reef runs parallel to its coast, at distances ranging from a few hundred feet at the northern tip of Ambergris Caye, to nearly forty miles at the southern-most tip of the country.
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