Sentences with phrase «bigger than the moon»

24 Tides The sun is much bigger than the moon.

Not exact matches

The ancients thought the moon was more powerful as the moon looked bigger than the sun in the firmament.

And in a sense DoB will be better [maybe bigger] than ever, because they will be able to get rid of some dead wood folks just sitting around waiting for their retirement benefits to be maxed out, and replace them with some young turks that DoB had been known to harbor many moons ago.

If the new results hold up, the understanding of the universe will have taken a bigger leap for humankind than hopping around on the moon.

That's a big chunk of sky — the full moon covers only 0.2 square degrees — but it's an area 10 times smaller than what could have been determined with the LIGO detectors alone.

Not only is Peck's group attempting to make a first - ever moon orbit with a satellite no bigger than a cereal box, made entirely with off - the - shelf materials, it's doing so with propellant that you can obtain simply by turning on a faucet.

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.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury.

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 earlier moons would probably be larger, because they had a bigger ring to draw material from than the later moons.

Spencer notes that Io's biggest eruptions — including this event — have struck at the moon's high latitudes, rather than near its equator.

Maps from the GRAIL spacecrafts reveal more large craters (big circles) and thinner crust (blue) on the moon's nearside (left) than on the farside (right), where the crust is thicker (red).

The plumes on Enceladus are far bigger and probably less uniform on the inside than a spacecraft's simple metal waste tube, but Lorenz says this method could still help us validate our models of the moon's jets and to design future missions.

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.

In a total eclipse, the moon appears bigger than the Sun and totally blocks its light for a period of time.

Mankind's first close - up look at Pluto did not disappoint July 15, 2015: The pictures showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and canyons on its big moon, Charon, that appear deeper than those on Earth.

The moon charm was a little bigger than I expected but besides that I love it!

Zhao often manages to frame a full moon in the big sky, and frequently lets the soundtrack consist of nothing more than the whisper of birdsong and breeze.

There's no doubt he's a talented and creative director — just check out his earlier films, Moon and Source Code — but Warcraft is a far bigger, more fantastical movie than anything we've seen from him before.

That was some of the big - picture news in Heidi MacDonald's report on this year's Diamond Retailer Summit, held last week just before Baltimore Comic Con, and the tidbits were fascinating as well: DC's Hanna - Barbera comics are doing better than expected, Marvel's «Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur» and «The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl» are doing well in Scholastic Book Fairs and other non-direct market channels, and BOOM!

It's the title that broke manga in the US — no comic has had a bigger influence than SAILOR MOON, the manga / anime that kicked off the shojo manga boom, made it safe for girls to read comics, and introduced the idea of cosplay to America in a big way.

The only thing more magical than hiking through a jungle in the dark, following a path that must be made of white gravel because it glows faintly in the full moon, is hiking through a jungle in the dark past big black hills — blacker than the sky behind them, blacker than the trees that -LSB-...]

Nintendo do plan to revitalise 3DS this year through big first party titles such as Pokemon Sun / Moon, but I would expect this to increase software sales on already installed 3DS's rather than drive new hardware sales.

The game might have been dumbed down over the years to be more accessible to those who don't know the moon is bigger than an elephant ($ 100 question answered incorrectly on «Who Wants to be a Millionaire») but there's something about going head - to - head with your peers and proving who shouldn't be let near the steak knives for fear of picking one up at the wrong end that will always appeal.

The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality and the things he sees are bigger than himself and the things he sees are his reality Drunks in doorways Moons on trees The dog trots freely thru the street and the things he sees are smaller than himself Fish on newsprint Ants in holes...

Over the Venetian Islands on Friday the moon was bigger than anything.

If had settlement on the Moon which had some big dome in which air was put into it, and needed the air managed it start off as privately owned or could start off publically owned than at some point it could be privatized.

Which means that the big glowing beauty will appear up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than a full moon (at apogee).

The I'm - not - calling - it - a-friggin-Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is by all accounts, from the near hysteric mainstream media to the more sober yet appropriately serious, concerned (and usually more accurate than everyone else) folks at Weather Underground, a big deal, with potential devastating rain, wind, and high storm surges made worse by the coincidence with the full moon.

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.

Bcoin's proposal is modest, however: «To the Moon» extension blocks are mostly just bigger than normal blocks (by a so - far unknown amount), so they can handle more transactions.