Sentences with phrase «distant planet called»

In Defense Task Force you take on the role of a commander who is stationed on a facility on a distant planet called Delta Atheni that harvests energy for Earth to use.

He is looking to save what remains of humanity on a distant planet called Zircon V from the forces of an evil dictator.

Players begin as a refugee on a distant planet called Utopia, and fight for survival, to unlock mysteries, and even build their own extensive base.

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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.

Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune — called ice giants — mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen state, researchers say.

Such distant giants lend support to the most radical challenge to standard theory, in which some planets form not by core accretion, but by a process called gravitational instability.

The brown dwarf in question, called LSR J1835 +3259, lies 18 light - years away, suggesting astronomers may soon glimpse auroras on similarly distant planets, too.

The comet traveled from the most distant region of our solar system called the Oort Cloud and made a close approach at 2:27 p.m. EDT within about 87,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of the Red Planet.

But only the lucky binaries seem to have planets that orbit them; some stellar binaries that lack orbiting bodies have a different third party — a distant star that's so massive, its gravitational fluxes actually change the orbit of the stellar binary, causing the two stars to shrink together in a process called orbital decay.

A device called a coronagraph can be built into a telescope to block most of the photons from a distant star's glow, allowing the dim light from a planet to pass into the telescope's sensors and create a glare - free image.

Barring the appearance of flying saucers, there are two broad possibilities: either we have a close encounter with our neighbours by visiting the planets and moons next door; or we make an interstellar phone call to creatures inhabiting much more distant planets that circle alien suns.

New work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory reports the discovery of a distant dwarf planet, called 2012 VP113, which was found beyond the known edge of the solar system.

Jokes, memes and call - backs to other jokes and memes fly around as frenetically as all the whizzy projectiles hurled down from distant planets.

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Published by Activision and developed by Infinity Ward, Retribution features four new multiplayer maps, and the highly - anticipated culmination of the Infinite Warfare zombies storyline called «The Beast from Beyond,» which takes players to an abandoned military base on a distant ice planet to fight the undead.

In Heavy Gear Assault players can become pilots on the distant planet of Terra Nova, fighting in a high - stakes game called Gear Dueling.

Hover takes you to ECP17, also called Hover City, a high - tech city built on a distant planet where the Great Admin established a strong dictatorship and banned any kind of entertainment.

What you'll read is the equivalent temperature to the «backradiation» commonly called the greenhouse effect, that's what the instrument is measuring, not the temperature of some distant planet.