Sentences with phrase «brighter than the sun»

There is no mention of blindness, though this would be a not unusual temporary effect of a light brighter than the sun, and he was given his commission to bear witness to the Gentiles right then and there.

They shine brighter than the sun when he shineth in his strength and walk the golden streets of the New Jerusalem; but he is lost and damned forever.»

Again, he says he saw a light — «a light from heaven, brighter than the sun» (26:13)-- and he and his companions fell to the ground, and he heard Jesus» voice.

In those last dinosaur days, any skygazing T. rex might have tilted its head in curiosity as a strange, new star grew dozens of times brighter than the sun.

The massive star Sirius, for example, is just over twice as far away as Alpha Centauri — but because it shines some 25 times brighter than our sun, it offers a stronger radiation - pressure braking effect, allowing light sails to approach at much higher speeds.

«Fast radio bursts» detected here on Earth last only a thousandth of a second, but are the result of a faraway source briefly shining a billion or more times brighter than our sun.

At about 9:20 a.m. local time Feb. 15, a fireball brighter than the sun streaked across the sky near Chelyabinsk, Russia, in southwestern Siberia.

HD 93129Aa is an O - type star that is approximately two and a half million times brighter than the Sun, and has a mass 80 times greater.

In a study published in Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, the researchers say they saw the red supergiant star N6946 - BH1 flare a million times brighter than our sun for several months in 2009 before fading out of visible wavelengths, a likely sign of a brand - new black hole.

The University of Portsmouth and NREL collaborated with scientists at the Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun to act as a microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.

From Earth, twin telescopes on Cerro Tololo in Chile captured light from ASASSN - 15lh that astronomers measured as 570 billion times brighter than the sun.

The bubble consists of material cast off from a star that burns several hundred thousand times brighter than the sun.

«We didn't expect a signal that bright, so we came up with the name QUASR, inspired by quasars, the extremely luminous celestial objects that can be a trillion times brighter than the sun,» Meagher said.

Such radio traffic could be readily apparent On the earth, for example, a new radar system employed with the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory for planetary studies emits a narrow - bandwidth signal that, if it were detected from another star, would be between a million and 10 billion times brighter than the sun at the same frequency.

Because of the uniform and extremely high brightness (about 5 billion times brighter than the Sun) of type Ia supernovae, they are often used for distance measurements in astronomy.

Diamond produces intense light 10 billion times brighter than the sun, allowing scientists to explore almost any material in atomic detail.

Such giants are typically 10,000 times brighter than the sun.

Among the highlights in the Hubble photo is HD 93129Aa, a supergiant star that's 80 times more massive and 2.5 million times brighter than the sun.

When the meteor exploded, it created a flash brighter than the sun.

These stars are either much brighter than the Sun, or much fainter.

(Some quasars may be billions — or even a trillion — times brighter than the sun, yet they are so far away they still look like stars.)

NASA Zeta Tucanae is a yellowish star that is brighter than our Sun, Sol.

NASA Gamma Pavonis is a yellowish star that is brighter than our Sun, Sol.

NASA Beta Comae Berenices is a yellow - orange star that is brighter than our Sun, Sol.

NASA Pi3 Orionis A is a yellowish star that is brighter than our Sun, Sol.

After around 100,000 years, it has built up so much hydrogen it produces a massive burst, making the star about 300,000 times brighter than our sun for a short period of time.

KIC 8462852 is a star somewhat more massive, hotter, and brighter than the Sun.

NASA Gamma Leporis A is a yellowish star that is brighter than our Sun, Sol.

The astronomers also determined that P13 is at least a million times brighter than the sun while the «donor» star that it rotates around is 20 times heavier than the sun.

The meteor, which was about one - third the diameter of asteroid 2012 DA14, was brighter than the Sun.

Models predicted that this cloud of exotic debris would assemble into heavy elements and give off a radioactive glow over 10 million times brighter than the sun.

There is a light It burns brighter than the sun He steals the night And casts no shadow There is hope Should oceans rise and mountains fall He never fails

Step out in the sun wearing a cool Aviator or Wayfarer sunglass and you shine brighter than the sun.

But I'm puzzled why big lasers would be needed, especially ground - based ones — how much brighter than the Sun in the designated wavelength would some such installation have to be, to be doing anything more than sunlight does now?

Most of all, pray that the goodness, God's goodness, shines brighter than the sun!

Not exact matches

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

The heavens hold more stars than earth has grains Of sand, and given time, each tiny sun Combined should make a world where starlight stains The sky bright white and dark would be undone.

«This immense precious stone sent forth streams of richly coloured lights brighter beyond comparison than ten thousand suns, which I understood represented the Infinite Attributes of God.

Or maybe, others said, the first stars were strange, short - lived and supermassive giants, far brighter and hundreds or even a thousand times more massive than our sun.

Jupiter is usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus); however at times Mars appears brighter than Jupiter.

It is a giant star, one of the night sky's brightest and nearly 1,000 times the diameter of the sun, but so far away that it appears much smaller in the sky than Pluto.

When the remnant reemerged from the sun's veil on December 4, it was about four times brighter than when it was last spotted, Daryl Haggard of McGill University in Montreal and her colleagues report January 18 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

As a result, the sun now looks 7 percent brighter than it will in July, but its low winter elevation keeps things chilly in the Northern Hemisphere during the run - up to the premier space event of 2006: the return of the Stardust spacecraft after a six - year mission.

The impact caused Tempel 1 to glow five times brighter than normal, apparently the result of flying debris illuminated by the sun.

When this structure is stripped away, the remaining smoothed surface would be brighter than unaffected areas, especially when the sun's rays strike it at certain angles.

The OSSOS project uses powerful computers to hunt the images, and Kavelaars was presented with a bright object moving at such a slow rate that it was clearly at least twice as far from Earth Neptune and 120 times further from the Sun than Earth.

There would be more daylight than darkness in general, though when the larger, brighter sun sets, the light might look a bit like the semi-darkness of a partial eclipse.

The true outer limit is at least 500 times farther out, about 5 trillion miles beyond Pluto, where the sun looks like nothing more than a bright star and temperatures hover just a few degrees above absolute zero.

The brightest light on Earth is one billion times more intense than the sun's surface.

At a distance of 1,000 light - years — farther than most of the stars you can see on a clear night — it would appear about as bright as the sun.