Sentences with phrase «at millions of miles»

This mass of plasma travels at millions of miles per hour and, upon colliding with a planet's magnetic field, can trigger a geomagnetic storm, during which particles trapped in a planet's atmosphere are released.

A wind of fragmented atoms blows off it at millions of miles per hour.

«We see some gas outflowing from this galaxy at millions of miles per hour, and this gas may have been blown away by the powerful radiation from the newly formed stars,» said Ryan Hickox, an astrophysicist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and a co-author on the study.

The blue cloud and the white central dot consist of 60 - million - degree gas shooting outward, perpendicular to the lobes, at millions of miles per hour.

Not exact matches

Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Titan.

Amazon regularly uses the U.S. Postal Service to complete what's called the «last mile» of delivery, with letter carriers dropping off packages at some 150 million residences and businesses daily.

With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.

IEnova, Sempra Energy's subsidiary in Mexico, announced it's investing about $ 130 million in a marine terminal that will receive, store and deliver gasoline and diesel fuel at its facility a few miles north of Ensenada.

Mars is tens of millions of miles away from Earth at its closest orbit and hundreds of millions of miles away at its most distant.

Barrick Gold cut its 2014 copper forecast to 410 million to 440 million pounds, from previous guidance of 470 million to 500 million pounds due to a partial collapse of the main conveyor at its Lumwana mile in Zambia.

FAIRHOPE, ALA. — Colliers International has arranged both the equity and construction financing for The Retreat at Fairhope Village, a $ 38 million apartment development in Fairhope, roughly 20 miles southeast of Mobile.

At the time of the incident, Tesla said that it was the first crash involving Autopilot in roughly 130 million miles of driving in which the technology was in control.

Their reaction is created by colliding two plasma balls made of hydrogen atom cores at one million miles per hour.

According to Jeans its diameter is about 200,000 light - years and it takes 3 million years to complete a single revolution, at a peripheral speed of several hundred miles per second.

But as you go through life, these tiny miracles add up, like little grains of sand, until many years from now, you have millions and billions of grains of sand, and you look back at your life, and see miles and miles of gleaming white beach.

For his annual Hot 10 list (see the 2016 list here), Andrew Knowlton dined at hundreds of restaurants, traveled thousands of miles, and devoured something like a million calories — all in search of the country's best new places to eat.

It's about showing the right attitude on the pitch, and not one player / coach / board member at the club comes within a million miles of the attitude that Sanchez displays during a game!

This is a club that was at the door of greatness in 2006... Look at us now... Barely making the CL group stage (necessary in order to get the cash reward because we are million miles away from winning the competition) and falling short in the league every season like a tradition.

No one at the club in any role comes within a million miles of the attitude that Sanchez shows during a game.

Before even going with a million miles of criticising Alexis (who has been carrying the club on his back), how about questioning almost every other player at the club?

But he was popular enough at one point to spawn the original «million miles for one of your goals song» wasn't he?

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

If I was granted a wish to sit down and chat with one of my favourite parenting experts, Dr. Laura Markham, I'd no doubt speak at a million miles an hour trying to extract every last drop of wisdom I could... Read More

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

Lawmakers have budgeted $ 5.9 million to pave 23 miles of road with hot mix asphalt this year, subject to approval at the May 1 meeting.

But we can not forget that these issues will be a million miles away from the concerns of most voters at the next election.

Cuomo elicited a chorus of oohs and aahs during his appearance at the Buffalo Museum of Science yesterday as he unveiled a $ 6 million effort to study covering a three - quarter - mile stretch of the Kensington between Best and Ferry streets, transforming it into a tree - lined parkway.

Looking at the reality of Britain's EU predicament now, just a couple days into Article 50, everything feels a million miles away from where we were even a few weeks ago.

Delivering the third of his six regional state of the state addresses on Tuesday, Cuomo took his show to the state university at Purchase, touting infrastructure investment and new spending proposals, such as a $ 200 million multi use trail that would run 750 miles.

At its peak, the Bethlehem Steel plant employed over 25,000 workers and had over 7 million square feet of buildings, as well as almost 30 miles of rail track.

The ShotSpotter program, which relies on sound sensors placed in dangerous neighborhoods to alert authorities to possible gunfire, would also grow to cover more than 60 square miles — more than twice the area it now covers — at a total cost of $ 5.5 million.

Cuomo also announced that the $ 387 million double - track project, expected to increase capacity along 12.6 miles between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma, will be completed next summer — months ahead of the MTA's planned schedule at the end of 2018.

The package announced on Tuesday includes $ 341 million statewide for the so - called «last mile» funding, or monies to cover the thorniest, remote areas of the state, many of which rely on spotty satellite service — or have no coverage at all — due to the often - prohibitive cost of installation.

Both state and pipeline representatives, in similar email responses, have declined to discuss how much money is at stake for the proposed use of about 117 miles of Thruway corridor for the $ 553.2 million project.

The request is to replace all 550 miles at the industry rate of $ 1.32 million per mile.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

The EVLA's receiving system will be sensitive enough to detect the weak radio transmission from a cell phone at the distance of Jupiter — half a billion miles away — at a projected cost of $ 94 million.

The new view was obtained on July 10, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT, 5:30 UTC), when the spacecraft was 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter on the outbound leg of its initial 53.5 - day capture orbit.

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

(For comparison, Jupiter orbits at a distance of 480 million miles and takes nearly 12 years to complete one circuit.)

HD 80606 b swings within 3 million miles of its star at its closest approach and reaches its most distant point, 81 million miles away, just 56 Earth - days later.

At stake is a share of $ 10 million, to go to the best - performing cars to maintain at least 100 miles per US gallon (42.5 kilometres per litre).At stake is a share of $ 10 million, to go to the best - performing cars to maintain at least 100 miles per US gallon (42.5 kilometres per litre).at least 100 miles per US gallon (42.5 kilometres per litre)...

The U.S. may enjoy the world's most extensive highway system at present, but the Chinese are rapidly catching up — from a few paved highways in the 1980s to 2.2 million miles (3.6 million kilometers) of paved roads in 2007.

Today almost 2,500 miles of trails traverse the preserve, but many are scratchy and treacherous, and 1.5 million acres of wilderness have no trails at all.

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

Peter Thomas, a planetary geologist at Cornell, got a good look at Vesta when it came within 110 million miles of Earth last May.

An international team of scientists have been pouring over data streaming back from the Venus Express since April 2006 when it began surveying Venus, which at its minimum distance is around 25 million miles (40 million kilometers) from Earth.