Sentences with phrase «billion years»

These stars, which are more than 4 billion years younger the the sun, regularly pulsate in brightness.

From 5 to 8 billion years, the sun's nuclear furnace will undergo a dramatic shift, causing it to expand to enormous size and engulf Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth.

Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn't blow up on ascent,» Musk tweeted in December.

If the expansion continues to accelerate, then in 100 billion years, the gap between galaxies will be growing so fast that light from distant galaxies will no longer reach us.

One billion years from now the sun will be 10 % brighter than it is today

Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (the universe itself is 14.8 billion years old), that clump together due to gravity, and are found circling cores of galaxies.

In the 4.4 billion years it took a species capable of space travel to form on Earth, Fermi proposed that the galaxy should have been overrun with intelligent, technologically - advanced aliens.

The discovery of hydrogen sulfide may help piece together the story of how the solar system formed and arranged itself some 4.6 billion years ago.

Even if stored at 374 degrees Fahrenheit, the discs will remain readable for a projected 13.8 billion years.

It will also doom our feeble planet in about 1 billion years.

In a billion years, for instance, a swelling sun will scorch our food chain, boil our oceans and extinguish life on Earth as we know it.

KBOs are so far away from the sun, they're almost perfectly frozen samples of the material leftover from the Solar System's formation some 4.6 billion years ago.

(Our solar system is about 4.6 billion years old.)

At Titan, Cassini found prebiotic chemistry — which means the moon is essentially a frozen version of what the Earth was several billion years ago.

The firm also notes that a recent report from the New York Fed, which we wrote about here, discusses the role that electronic and automated trading could be playing in the bond market, particularly how these dynamics may have exacerbated the bond «flash crash,» an event JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said is the kind of thing that happens «once every 3 billion years or so.»

Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding, and thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang puts the universe at 13.8 billion years old.

GE is piggybacking along to the tune of at least $ 2 billion a year in extra equipment sales — a significant boost even for a company of GE's scale.

Nonadherence to prescribed regimens is also costly, resulting in nearly $ 300 billion a year in wasted spending, according to some studies.

It's safe to say that Canadians generally spend at least $ 3 billion a year on cannabis products.

And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

This lack of engagement and its impact on employees costs the U.S. an estimated $ 77 billion to $ 96 billion each year.

The bid emphasizes the importance of gaining a greater foothold in online sales in India, a market expected to be worth $ 200 billion a year within a decade.

A Silicon Valley darling, Square has raised nearly $ 350 million since its founding in 2009, building a massive empire of payments that now process some $ 6 billion every year.

Capital spending ballooned to $ 7.3 billion from $ 2.5 billion a year earlier, although that included the one - time, $ 2.4 billion purchase of the Chelsea Market building in New York City.

Amazon's house - brand batteries now outsell Duracell online, and the company will now get upwards of $ 16 billion a year in annual revenue from a grocery store — Whole Foods, which it acquired over the summer.

Green bonds were not among the levies recommended by the provincial transit agency Metrolinx to raise the estimated $ 2 billion a year that's needed to improve transit in the Toronto - Hamilton area.

And while our study found that the work will cost around $ 42 billion, it will save as much as $ 2 billion a year in electricity bills the military now pays to civilian suppliers.

Cyber Monday sales will top $ 2 billion this year, according to IBISWorld, but Canadian company are likely to take home a tiny slice of the Thanksgiving e-commerce pie.

Unfortunately, however, government resources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion this year.

Convergence Group's Eiley said Netflix is paying $ 2.5 billion a year for programming while North America's TV providers pay $ 50 billion yearly.

The $ 665 billion deficit for fiscal year 2017 will rise to about $ 800 billion this year and jump to $ 1.1 trillion in 2019, a result of the last year's tax deal and an early 2018 spending...

Indeed, approximately 53 million American freelancers earn $ 715 billion a year according to a recent study.

Of the $ 100 billion a year spent on Belt and Road, about 50 % will be used for raw materials like concrete and steel, according to Strategy &, the consulting arm of PwC.

Throughout this change, mobile and online games have gone from around $ 12 billion in global revenue in 2007 to about $ 30 billion this year, according to tracking firm PwC.

Art crimes rake in $ 6 billion a year... from home invasions to museum heists to forgers passing off high - priced fakes.

The city has $ 18 billion of debt, and revenue of $ 1 billion a year.

Research shows that a lack of diversity is drastically affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, which costs the tech industry more than $ 16 billion every year.

The government already spends about $ 12 - billion each year to pay interest on its debt, about 8 per cent of revenue.

JP Morgan estimates Amazon will spend 5 billion on this aspect alone in 2018, up from 4.5 billion the year prior.

Just in California, where recreational cannabis sales began Jan. 1, sales are expected to hit $ 3.7 billion this year.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

But they add up to $ 150 billion a year.

In the depths of the financial crisis in 2011, Brian Moynihan — who'd been the unexpected pick for CEO a year before — predicted that Bank of America would soon be earning well over $ 20 billion a year.

The publisher lost more than $ 112 million in the quarter, down from a loss of almost $ 1 billion a year earlier.

The global smart transportation sector is expected to grow to US$ 138 billion by 2020, up from US$ 46 billion this year, at a compound annual growth rate of 24 %, according to analysis firm Markets and Markets.

Expressed in dollars, it is costing Ontario roughly $ 12 billion a year to cover interest payments.

Its R&D spending rose to $ 16.1 billion in 2017 from $ 12.5 billion a year earlier.

The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

As Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a statement, the reefs provide at $ 6.4 billion a year and 64,000 jobs to the Australian economy — numbers that may underestimate the reefs» value.

Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.