Sentences with phrase «bigger than earth»

Never knew that a gigantic bear that's bigger than Earth would make for an interesting story.

TKF: Diana, your specialty is exoplanets smaller than Neptune — a planet four times bigger than Earth.

In the meantime, quantum satellites could also carry out fundamental experiments — for example, testing entanglement over distances bigger than Earth - bound scientists can manage.

With a diameter just 12 percent bigger than Earth, Kepler 438 b has a 70 - percent chance of being rocky, while Kepler 442 b is about a third larger than Earth (probably a super-Earth), but still has a 60 - percent chance of being rocky (CfA new release; and Torres et al, 2015).

In 2009, French astronomers observed what was thought to be a weak radio signal from an exoplanet five times bigger than the Earth.

There are hundreds of planets a little bigger than Earth out there, Macintosh said, but there is so far no way to know if most of them are really «super-Earths» or just micro-sized gas and ice planets like Neptune, or something different altogether.

These can be rocky planets a bit bigger than Earth, known as super-Earths.

Over the past 20 years, surveys of planets around other stars in our galaxy have found the most common types to be «super Earths» and their somewhat larger cousins — bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

There are hundreds of planets a little bigger than Earth, but so far no way to know if they are «super-Earths,» or micro-sized gas and ice planets like Neptune, or something different altogether, he said.

The newly discovered planet is a tad bigger than Earth and about as far from its parent star as Mercury is from the sun.

Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.

Super-Earths — rocky planets smaller than Uranus but bigger than Earth — appear to almost always keep their distance from their stars, New Scientist reports.

«Someday soon we hope to be talking about weather reports for alien worlds not much bigger than Earth, and to be making comparisons with our home planet.»

Astronomers are finding hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, some of them not much bigger than Earth.

In fact, last week, astronomers found a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth whose orbit around its relatively young star is only 3 % of the distance from Earth to the sun (ScienceNOW, 21 April).

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth, well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.

Kepler - 186f is slightly bigger than Earth, measuring about 1.1 Earth radii.

This seething volcanism is thought to be caused by the massive tides wrought by nearby Jupiter: The push and pull heats and liquefies the mantle of little Io, no bigger than Earth's moon.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Four of the planets are enormous, thousands of times bigger than the Earth.

His one concession was that Jupiter is eleven times bigger than the Earth, whereas Earth is only five times as big as Pluto.

«Trailblazers in the private sector have inspired us to think of what is bigger than Earth... We are only a generation away from a permanent human residency on Mars.»

Not exact matches

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

God destroyed the first earth age due to satan's pride wanting to bigger and better than God and took 1/3 of His angels with Him.

They theorize that the source texts were modified to be more believable as nobody would be able to imagine all life on Earth fitting into a box no bigger than a phone booth.

There is no way to prove or disprove a higher being, and there is no way to prove or disprove the big bang theory (contrasting beliefs in most people's opinions), but what we do know is the Earth is way older than 6,000 - 10,000 years old, and that is FACT.

Job has no way to reply, and no need; the earth is infinitely bigger than he; how absurd he would look standing at the edge of the sea and trying to whistle up the waves.

In a world where footballers earn more than # 50,000 a week and have glamorous girlfriends to go with flash cars and big houses, the players need discipline and, to be perfectly honest, need to be brought back down to earth.

If you think k it takes for Arsenal to beat big teams to lift the EPL then you need to land back on planet earth and start counting up points Arsenal lost to teams below them rather than above them and see where they would have been in the table.

Bizarrely, the supernovae appeared to be farther away from Earth than anybody had anticipated, implying that the cosmos was altogether bigger than astronomers had bargained for, as though gravity's pulling power was somehow being overwhelmed.

The chapter on origins, for example, takes a quick tour through the big bang, the formation of Earth, the history of the continents, the origin of life, its evolutionary history, plus human evolution — and all in less than 40 pages.

Punching in the correct brightness of the planet's star revealed a planet bigger and hotter than Earth.

The pair found that to recreate the observations, a big source of methane is required and the gas must be destroyed within 200 terrestrial days — 600 times faster than on Earth (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08228).

Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light - years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light - years away.

So another model, proposed in 2015, assumes the impact was extremely violent, so violent that the impactor and Earth's mantle vaporized and mixed together to form a dense melt / vapor mantle atmosphere that expanded to fill a space more than 500 times bigger than today's Earth.

Basri: The big news is the Kepler Mission [NASA's search for Earth - size exoplanets, launched in March 2009], which is gathering data right now and has been for more than a year.

The feeble glow of microwaves from the sun is absorbed by our air on the way down, anyway, so unless the core somehow also strips off Earth's atmosphere — in which case we have bigger problems than solar radiation — we should be safe enough from microwaves if our planet's center stops spinning.

Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star (about as big as Earth), in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope.

What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years» time, the Sun is a hundred times bigger than it is today?

An Earth - like planet would cause a bigger wobble and a darker transit in a red dwarf than in a sun, and the effect would be even more pronounced if the planet were in the habitable zone — because the habitable zone, where liquid water can exist, lies closer to a cool red dwarf.

For comparison, the event horizon of a black hole like this is about 13 times bigger than the sun, and the accretion disk formed by the disrupted star could extend to more than twice Earth's distance from the sun.

As expected, the simulations showed that the larger, 1 - km asteroid created the bigger splash, throwing 42 trillion kilograms of water and vapour — enough to fill 16 million Olympic - sized swimming pools — across an area more than 1000 kilometres wide and up to hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surface.

It used to be thought that the methane in hydrates was made the way oil is — that Earth's internal heat makes methane, the smallest hydrocarbon, by cracking bigger hydrocarbons at depths of more than a mile below the seafloor.

A massive distributed computing network known as the Einstein@Home project has made its second big celestial find in the past six months — a pulsar 15 kilometers in diameter located more than 30,000 light years from Earth.

Two worlds, other than the Earth and Pluto, have nitrogen atmospheres, but they are moons rather than planets: Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, and Triton.

The authors suggest that searches for these impact ejecta layers will be more fruitful for determining how many times Earth was hit by big asteroids than searches for large craters.

That's up to 9 kilometers per second slower than the average for bigger objects that have hit Earth over its history, says space scientist and asteroid specialist William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

He notes that Congress gave NASA a 2005 mandate to find 90 percent of the near - Earth asteroids more than 140 meters in diameter — big enough to wipe out the Eastern Seaboard or most of California.