Sentences with phrase «bigger than planet»

Saturn's moon Titan is tiny compared to its massive host but quite large in its own right; Titan is bigger than the planet Mercury.
Although Star A and B are similar to Sol in size, Star C (Proxima) is not a lot bigger than the planet Jupiter (more).
Bigger than the planet Mercury, it has a thick, opaque atmosphere; complex weather; and lakes of liquid natural gas.
This «super-Earth» is only 40 percent bigger than our planet.
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury.
The largest, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury.
Outside of our solar system, auroras, which indicate the presence of a magnetosphere, have been spotted on brown dwarfs — objects that are bigger than planets but smaller than stars.

Not exact matches

Mankind can barely see things bigger than our own planet just outside our own backyard, much less be able to tell what exists at the farthest reaches, or in other dimensions we believe to exist but can not access yet.
Chad, I can now only as.sume that if you can't look at the arguements you're making against me and apply them to yourself then you're either a much bigger idiot than I could have ever thought, the most intellectually dishonest person on the planet or you're a troll.
They lucked out, had bigger guns than the Indians, and pillaged their way across one of the most naturally prosperous landmasses on the planet.
To believe in the rational mind as humanity's «salvation» is all well and fine but after thousand of years on the planet man still strives to belief in something bigger than himself.
Much bigger than the thought processes and theologies contained in one single building or even on one particular planet.
Four of the planets are enormous, thousands of times bigger than the Earth.
With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.
And while all this is fuelled by more than 30 years on a veggie diet, the campaign's message is that even one day a week can have a big impact, both on our health and the health of the planet.
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.
Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!
Wenger Hasnt «Blown his last chance of winning anything because he NEVER had the chance, Im almost certain that the attitude is do nt aim too high (PL victory) because the fans expectations will be boosted (CL Victory) and that type of achievement costs money, BIG money and that is something that scares the Silver spooned, Merchant banking, elitist board more than ANYTHING ELSE on the planet (perhaps only eclipsed by the thought of a shady Uzbek millionaire owning the club).
To say I dislike Mark Hughes would be like describing the size of the planet Jupiter as being bigger than a dog.
Consumerism is so pervasive, when you scratch below the surface, all this advice has some link to some big company making big money, rather than really addressing what the right thing for our and the planet's well being.
We spend too much time inside and nothing connects us to the bigger picture of life than connecting with the physical planet we live on.
David Davies, the actual Brexit secretary, presumed firstly that Fox could do so and secondly that he would come back with deals representing markets bigger than the sum total that exist on this planet.
We had known of three stars there as well as a planet 10 times bigger than Jupiter.
«This deployment of technical means allowed us to reconstruct with a very high precision the shape and size of dwarf planet Haumea, and discover to our surprise that it is considerably bigger and less reflecting than was previously believed.
According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.
Punching in the correct brightness of the planet's star revealed a planet bigger and hotter than Earth.
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.
Van Eylen's planets matched the second picture: The largest of the rocky planets nestled close to the stars were bigger than the distant ones.
It's very puffy, so it's very low density, which means that given its mass — which is less than that of Jupiter — its diameter is bigger than we expect, and so the puffiness of this planet is actually still somewhat of a puzzle.
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.
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.
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.
MESSENGER — which stands for Mercury surface, space environment, geochemistry, and ranging — also determined that Mercury's giant Caloris basin, among the biggest impact craters in the solar system, spans 1,500 kilometers — nearly one third of the planet's diameter and 200 kilometers more than previous estimates.
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.
Even though we went on to discover Xena, which is bigger than Pluto and could be called a planet, that is not particularly profound in and of itself.
The human transformation of the planet is now bigger than the end of the last ice age.
The KELT North telescope in Arizona and its twin, KELT South in South Africa, are no more powerful than high - end digital cameras, but they've proven that small telescopes can make big planet discoveries.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Sachs is used to thinking big: His area of expertise is nothing less than our entire planet.
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).
Its dense iron core takes up 42 per cent of its volume, its orbit is less circular than that of the other planets, and current planetary formation models predict Mercury should be closer to the sun and bigger, so we know we're missing something.
Far from there being a continuum of planets, the study found two distinct groups: one smaller than 1.5 times the size of Earth, the other bigger than twice Earth's size, with very few examples in the gap in between.
Astronomers are finding hundreds of planets orbiting stars other than our sun, some of them not much bigger than Earth.
«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
Super-Earths — rocky planets smaller than Uranus but bigger than Earth — appear to almost always keep their distance from their stars, New Scientist reports.
The newly discovered planet is a tad bigger than Earth and about as far from its parent star as Mercury is from the sun.
In each of these systems, the mass of the planet is about 10,000 times bigger than the total mass of all the moons together.
The walk out to Pluto, a speck of dust ten times smaller than our sand - grain Earth, would be nearly a half - kilometer, and along the way you'd be lucky to encounter any of the planets: Even the largest, Jupiter, would be no bigger than a small marble.
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.
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