Sentences with phrase «celestial neighbor»

And what a payoff: Nearly two years later, Weinreich's discovery of black specks embedded within lunar crystals is proof that there is water within our planet's nearest celestial neighbor.

His plan involves using the resources of the Red Planet to fuel a sequence of manned and unmanned missions to build an infrastructure that would allow us to truly explore our celestial neighbor firsthand, while at the same time creating a redundancy in case any equipment or spacecraft malfunctioned.

Yet our closest celestial neighbor has been very much on the minds of planetary scientists, entrepreneurs, archaeologists, and others these days.

«As we look at the moon on such an occasion, it's worth remembering that the moon is more than just a celestial neighbor,» said John Keller, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

In an amazing feat of precise planning and dedication, the small spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles over nine and a half years to reach our most distant celestial neighbor.

But I am smart enough to know that science hasn't proven anything about the origins of the universe, except maybe the ages of our closest celestial neighbors (earth, moon, sun, mars, etc.).

«Dark Energy Survey finds more celestial neighbors: New dwarf galaxy candidates could mean our sky is more crowded than we thought.»

The remarkable fruits of this research revolutionized the public's view of their celestial neighbors, capturing the imaginations of people from all backgrounds like nothing else save the Apollo lunar missions.

Not exact matches

A slight unevenness of distribution occurring by chance at any given point (a contingency that was bound to arise) was all that was needed to cause the entire edifice to break up into parts which, sundering themselves from their neighbors, coiled in more and more tightly upon themselves in enormous clots — their vastness, by the law of celestial mechanics, being directly proportionate to the lightness of the matter of which they were originally composed.

Science has progressed from wild speculation about Earth's planetary neighbors — including how they formed and whether they are inhabited — to a better understanding of our celestial neighborhood

Ordinarily, those transits will occur at regular intervals, like celestial clockwork, but oddities in Kepler 19 b's transit times suggest the influence of the other half of the pair — a larger, unseen planet also orbiting Kepler 19 and perturbing the motion of its neighbor.