Sentences with phrase «between distant planets»

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

Not exact matches

The single cell organism has an ancestor who probably came to earth frozen ice attached to a meteor that was blown off a distant plant due to some sort of plantary collision between a comet and a planet or two planets, or even a large meter collision... Evolution does not require that you believe to exist, it simply exists.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

On Earth, this relationship between distant events in a planet's climate system is known as teleconnection.

When Venus passes directly between earth and the sun, we see the distant planet as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun.

Researchers looked at seven of these worlds — distant planets whose mass lies between one and 10 times ours — including 55 Cancri e (at right, compared to Earth) and GJ1214b, evaluating how the x-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by their parent stars might affect their atmospheres over their remaining lifetimes.

But they quickly identified the source of the change: the darker mass of a planet passing between the distant star and our vantage point on Earth.

By observing slight dips in the light from distant stars — which correspond to planets «transiting» between their host stars and the telescope's lens — Kepler has discovered 135 confirmed planets and 3,548 planet candidates.

super-Earth A planet (in a distant solar system) with between one and 10 times the mass of Earth.

Scientists can take advantage of the warping effect by measuring the light of distant stars, looking for a brightening that might be caused by a massive object, such as a planet, that passes between a telescope and a distant background star.

A wide - angle view of the star HD 106906 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a close - up view from the Gemini Planet Imager reveal a dynamically disturbed system of comets, suggesting a link between this and the unusually distant planet (upper right), 11 times the mass of JuPlanet Imager reveal a dynamically disturbed system of comets, suggesting a link between this and the unusually distant planet (upper right), 11 times the mass of Juplanet (upper right), 11 times the mass of Jupiter.

We've assaulted the virtual shores of Normandy a thousand times over, drank from umpteen different toilets in Fallout and similar titles, picked between the holy trinities of human / elf / dwarf and warrior / rogue / mage countless times, and have explored many distant planets.

As always, the comic relief comes from the interaction between the mismatched heroes, many of whom are just meeting for the first time, whether it's in the U.S., Wakanda, or on a distant planet.

In the distant future earth is unable of sustaining human life anymore and thus plans are set up to construct a portal between earth and a planet earmarked for colonization.

While their teacher won't be traveling to a distant planet any time soon, Kostka will be bringing outer space to her students, thanks to a new partnership between NASA and WGBH, Boston's PBS station...

Therefore, a distant observer could distinguish between a planet with no atmosphere, and one with an atmosphere with GHGs and, potentially, could determine the energy flows within the system based on the outgoing spectrum.

We've assaulted the virtual shores of Normandy a thousand times over, drank from umpteen different toilets in Fallout and similar titles, picked between the holy trinities of human / elf / dwarf and warrior / rogue / mage countless times, and have explored many distant planets.

And in distant relationships it takes a lot longer before you start to see the differences between the perfect person who lives in your imagination and the living, breathing, decidedly - less - than - perfect person who lives on planet earth.