Sentences with phrase «called a light year»

So to measure really long distances, people use a unit called a light year.

Imposter was originally planned as a short section in a three - part sci - fi anthology called The Light Years Trilogy.

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Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

This star system, called HD 97048, is located about 500 light - years away.

MillerCoors (MolsonCoors U.S. operations) recently announced it will launch a 6.9 % alcohol light beer called Miller Fortune next year to take on the successful Bud Light Platinum, which weighs in at 6 % alclight beer called Miller Fortune next year to take on the successful Bud Light Platinum, which weighs in at 6 % alcLight Platinum, which weighs in at 6 % alcohol.

Apple released the iPhone X last year with a variety of new components, including an organic light - emitting diode (OLED) screen and a face scanner the company calls Face ID.

After a year and a half of testing various brews in focus groups consisting of friends and potential investors, the pair had what Verzello calls «a really great - tasting light beer.»

The Milky Way, the beautiful spiral galaxy that we call home, contains billions of stars including our own star, the sun, about 26,000 light years from its center.

Some 5,000 light - years from Earth, the Calabash Nebula — also called OH 231.8 +04.2, or the «rotten egg» nebula (since it contains a lot of sulphur)-- shows what happens after a star like the sun dies.

In 1878, when the 36 - year - old inventor decided to focus on building a light bulb, 23 others had already invented early versions called arc lamps, some of which were being used commercially to light streets and large buildings.

The governor noted Orr's restructuring plan for the city calls for investing $ 1.25 billion over 10 years in core services, primarily police and fire protection, trash pickup and street lighting.

The stock is down a staggering 41 % this year, a microcosm of the so - called crypto proxy stocks which have failed to deliver in light of the recent market downturn.

For example, BorgWarner CEO James Verrier said, «China light vehicle production was up close to 7 %, which was well ahead of our expectations as we went into the quarter,» and then, discussing the full - year, said, «I would say we're closely aligned with IHS» view, which is calling for about 2 % growth in China.»

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

In the light of Pope Benedict's recent announcement of a «Year of Faith», calling all the faithful to a more «profound understanding of the content of the faith» (Porta Fide?)

@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.

Mithra Was born of a virgin on December 25th, in a cave, attended by shepherds Was considered a great traveling teacher and master Had 12 companions or disciples Promised his followers immortality Performed miracles Sacrificed himself for world peace Was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again Was celebrated each year at the time of His resurrection (later to become Easter) Was called «the Good Shepherd» Was identified with both the Lamb and the Lion Was considered to be the «Way, the Truth and the Light,» and the «Logos,» «Redeemer,» «Savior» and «Messiah.»

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light - years away.

To determine the distaces beyond a billion light years, the standard measure IS a theory called «The Hubble Effect» that measures the red shift movement of galaxies in relation to one another.

Just two years prior to the Roe decision, the philosopher John Rawls had deployed a concept in his A Theory of Justice called «reflective equilibrium,» which largely has to do with the epistemological dynamics of arriving at a new, more «considered» belief in light of beliefs already held.

Hahahaha now someone is calling Petr Cech a double agent.I thought peeps were like Szczesny is shit he is this and that yes i would admit Szczesny costs us a lot but i was shocked no one felt sorry for a 19 year old keeper being thrown into such a shaky defense even petr cech must be saying in his mind that he is shocked.Let me tell you some go for Buffon or any other legendary keeper and put him in this current arsenal defense and he will still concede mad goals.But Szczesny and Cech both tied at highest clean sheets some seasons ago.Despite Cech having a defense which was light years ahead of this one and to me that speaks volumes about his potential.I love you very much Szczesny i refuse to be ignorant and call you shit what if you were 19 years at Chelsea and started playing i will bet you would have been catching for them.I love you come back stronger for me ok the pitiful thing is that you will meet the same defense again.By the way Cech will come good and stop comparing Ospina to him.

I'm prepared to call it a success «light» if they come 5th in the constructors this year, especially since Renault has become a fully funded works team.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

The call is in response to the Draft Energy Bill, presented today in Parliament by Energy Minister Ed Davey, who stated that the Bill would ensure that the lights would stay on for years to come.

A day later, tradition at the 71 - year - old dinner called for the two to light - heartedly rib each other.

Most prominent among them is Philips Lighting, the multinational company that calls itself «the world leader in lighting» and which last year hired Albany's Hinman Straub to lobby the executive branch on «New York Harbor Crossing» and «Lighting IssuesLighting, the multinational company that calls itself «the world leader in lighting» and which last year hired Albany's Hinman Straub to lobby the executive branch on «New York Harbor Crossing» and «Lighting Issueslighting» and which last year hired Albany's Hinman Straub to lobby the executive branch on «New York Harbor Crossing» and «Lighting IssuesLighting Issues.»

Two Erie County lawmakers are calling on the Department of Social Services to shed some light on the recent case of a 10 - year - old Buffalo boy who was murdered by his stepfather.

«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.

The idea for these charges is to let people who in what's called «special lighting districts» to cover more of the $ 1.9 million bill National Grid sends every year to the city.

Trump's attack came a day after Gillibrand called for his resignation in light of the fact that during his campaign last year, more than a dozen women accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior in years past.

Today's Times tells us about how Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (who has, in the past, been accused of ignoring sexual - harassment allegations against his colleagues) swiftly called for a meeting of the Assembly's Ethics Committee after an affair between a married upstate legislator and a 19 - year - old intern came to light.

The groups believe that in light of the lack of job creation three years into a so - called recovery from the Great Recession, lawmakers should reject the Governor's effort to enact yet another austerity budget.

That's consistent with what Gillibrand has been saying for years about sexual harassment in the military and on college campuses, and she maintained that consistency earlier this month when she called on a friend, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, to resign in light of the accusations of sexual misbehavior that he faces.

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) called for the city Department of Transportation to do a traffic safety study of Thomson Avenue last week in light of a car crash that killed a 16 - year - old boy and injured four LaGuardia Community College students.

Speaking with his 13 - year - old son at his side, Hamilton, a founding member of the United Against Gun Violence Task Force, called for common humanity in light of the recent deaths, noting that longer - term changes need to be considered and that positive police - community relations are needed.

The orange box at far left calls out M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, which at 3 million light - years away is one of our closest galactic neighbors.

The astronomers said that a much different PWN picture is seen in the X-ray image of another pulsar called B0355 +54, which is about 3,300 light years away from Earth.

Consider, for instance, the red dwarf star called TRAPPIST - 1, just under 40 light - years away.

TThe Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light - years away in the constellation Andromeda.

Much of that scattered debris ended up even farther out, about a light - year from the sun in a spherical shell of comets called the Oort Cloud.

Supermassive J0100 +2802 sits at the center of an active galaxy, called a quasar, 12.8 billion light - years away.

Today, new tagging methods are quickly shedding light on what scientists once called the «lost years» — the early years of a sea turtle's life when their migration patterns were mostly unknown.

The discovery nearly two decades ago of nine beautifully articulated vertebrae at Big Bend National Park is shedding new light on a 66 million - year - old sauropod native to Texas and the North American southwest called Alamosaurus sanjuanensis.

In 2001, Charbonneau and astronomer Tim Brown of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the moon.

If launched tomorrow toward the nearest port of call — Proxima b, a potentially habitable Earth - mass planet recently discovered in the triple star system of Alpha Centauri about four light - years away — that rocket would take 80,000 years to arrive.

1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies a dense and active star formation factory called the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC - 1), part of the same complex as the famous Orion Nebula.

There's big news this week from 40 light years away, a star system called TRAPPIST - 1.

The Kepler team has already pulled off that feat for two planets orbiting a star called Kepler - 9, about 2,000 light - years from Earth.