Sentences with phrase «closer than earth»

Airapetian and his team applied their model to the roughly Earth - sized planet, dubbed Proxima b, which orbits Proxima Centauri 20 times closer than Earth is to the sun.

AD Leo has a giant planet orbiting 3 million kilometres away (fifty times closer than the Earth to the Sun), and it may have Earth - sized worlds further out in its habitable zone.

Being 28 percent closer than Earth means that Venus receives about twice as much solar energy.

Not exact matches

When you consider that Saturn is 750 million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing short of miraculous.

SpaceX is looking to launch several small satellites into a lower orbit than Viasat in order to cut down on latency errors, with the idea being the closer a satellite is to Earth, the less likely there will be hiccups.

On July 10, Juno returned one of the closest - ever views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot — a larger - than - Earth storm that is actually shrinking.

The evidence we have that the earth is millions of years old is way closer to what anyone could consider «proof» than evidence to suggest Jesus existed.

Some think that the bible tells them that the earth has to be less than 10,000 years old rather than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.

Some are closer to the light than others but we all have room to grow so whether it's an atheist or the most godly man currently on earth, there is room for growth.

And nowhere on earth have conservative Christians been closer to controlling foreign policy than here in the United States.

To love is to discover and complete one's self in someone other than oneself; an act impossible of general realisation on earth so long as each man can see in his neighbor no more than a closed fragment following its own course through the world.

I have not experienced anyone closer to the truth than the person of God revealed in Jesus and His works on earth as recorded in the New Testament.

Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the things of earth rather than up towards the things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.

No human being was closer to Jesus on earth than his mother, and no human being is closer to Jesus now, in heaven, than his mother, Queen of Heaven.

That appraisal would have been supported by the fact that geographically Christianity was confined to a smaller proportion of the earth's surface than it had been at the close of the fifth century and that the cultures into which it had entered were held by fewer of civilized mankind than had been true at the close of the preceding height of the Christian tide.

there are close to 7 billion humans on this earth, odds are you hve more to fear from american citizens you know nothing off than religious extremist..

Nobody on Earth right now throws a baseball harder than Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman.

[56] Ghana is geographically closer to the «centre» of the Earth than any other country in the World; even though the notional centre, (0 °, 0 °) is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 614 km (382 mi) off the south - east coast of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea.

«I would like to be surprised — and I'm hopeful — but I'm not sure we'll find planets closer to Earth twins than the objects we present in our paper.»

But as seen here, all eight planets» orbits are packed closer to their star than Earth is to the sun.

But don't worry about a collision: Cruithne won't come closer than 7.5 million miles from Earth.

Because the Hubble telescope's view is not blurred by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere, it should be possible to use it to pick out stars far closer to the galaxy's centre than is possible from the ground, and measure their spectra.

17 / P Holmes was a run - of - the - mill comet in 2007, a faint fuzz ball hardly worth observing since it never got closer to the Sun than twice Earth's distance.

«A supervolcanic eruption spews out more than 1,000 cubic kilometres of magma, which accumulated over time in reservoirs close the earth's surface,» explains Prof. Dr Axel Schmitt of the Institute of Earth Scieearth's surface,» explains Prof. Dr Axel Schmitt of the Institute of Earth ScieEarth Sciences.

55 Cancri's innermost planet, weighing in at more than 10 earth masses — meaning it could have a rocky or icy core — lies closer to its star than Mercury does to our own.

For instance, he explains how the discovery that the Earth's surface is a closed sphere rather than an infinite plane suddenly transformed the world into a knowable place, and one with limited resources.

The closest single star like the sun — Tau Ceti, 12 light - years away — may harbor five planets slightly more massive than Earth.

Now, a global campaign to map Earth's ancient mega-eruptions, paired with advances in rock dating, is pushing us closer than ever to explaining why some volcanoes and asteroids kill and others don't.

Six months ago, Curiosity made the first up - close study of active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth, at the «Bagnold Dunes» on the northwestern flank of Mars» Mount Sharp.

The moon was 10 to 20 times closer to Earth than it is now, and the researchers found that it quickly assumed a tidally locked position with the rotation time of the moon equal to the orbital period of the moon around Earth.

Nonetheless, in 2029 the asteroid, dubbed Apophis — derived from the Egyptian god Apep, the destroyer who dwells in eternal darkness — will zoom closer to Earth than the world's communications satellites do.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

While the two closest planets could have lost 15 times as much water as is in all of Earth's oceans, the third planet — still closer to the star than the habitable zone — might have lost less than one ocean, they reported in the January Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

To avoid looking too close either to the sun or to Earth, Corot has to turn 180 degrees twice a year, which is why it can't look longer than five months at one set of stars.

An Earth - like planet would cause a bigger wobble and a darker transit in a red dwarf than in a sun, and the effect would be even more pronounced if the planet were in the habitable zone — because the habitable zone, where liquid water can exist, lies closer to a cool red dwarf.

The exoplanet (a planet in another solar system) is about six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits about 40 percent closer to its star, dubbed HD 102272, than Earth does around the sun.

For astronomers — especially astrobiologists — Titan is closer to Earth than the physical distance would first suggest.

The tree of life shows us that flowering plants are Earth's most complex green algae, fungi are closer to animals than to plants, and we are essentially very strange fish.

Whitish Sirius, located off to the southeast, is relatively small and tame, but it shines brighter than any other star in the heavens because of its close proximity to Earth.

Although the consequences are roughly comparable in either case, an important difference is that objects in the solar system that circle far away from the sun on long - period orbits before returning, such as comets, would hit the earth at much greater velocities than close - orbiting (short - period) bodies, such as asteroids.

Scientists estimate that several dozen asteroids in the 20 - to -40-foot (6 - to -12-meter) size range fly by Earth at a distance even closer than the moon every year.

«We were closer to the surface of Mercury than the International Space Station is to the Earth.»

Supernova 2014J is the closest Type Ia supernova to Earth since 1986, and it's likely that more than a hundred years will pass until we see another such supernova so close to us.

Dry, rocky Vesta, which lies about 38 million miles closer to the sun than Ceres, can be considered the smallest member of the terrestrial planets — the family that includes Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

«The space environment of close - in exoplanets is much more extreme than what the Earth faces,» explains co-author Jeremy Drake (CfA).

At its closest approach, it ventures as close as.06 of that same Earth - sun distance — much closer than Mercury orbits the sun, said Kane, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy.

The observations point to an Earth - sized planet with a year lasting no more than 20.4 days, putting it slightly further out than Bb but still scorchingly close to the star.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth, well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

The first image in the upper left was taken about 9.5 hours before closest approach, when Rosetta was still 510,000 km (315,000 miles) from the asteroid - more distant than the Moon is from the Earth!