Sentences with phrase «distant planet of»

On a distant planet of weird creatures, a mad scientist schemes to turn the whole universe boring and flat with a super bomb that turns everything into paper and cardboard.

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

Before long, Hal journeys to the distant planet of OA, the home of the Guardians of the Universe, the creators of the power rings and the masters of the Green Lantern Corps.

It's no surprise that these elements translated so beautifully to the distant planet of Tatooine, where a young man, stranded in a dead - end town and only hoping to head to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters, rises to a life of mythic grandeur.

Midway through James Cameron's 2009 sci - fi action film «Avatar,» set on the distant planet of Pandora, lead character Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) observes, «Out there is the true world.

Not exact matches

Figuring out the exact makeup of distant planets could help determine where in the solar system they first formed — and how far they migrated away from the sun afterward.

Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

One reads of Israeli leftists being surprised and disappointed by Arafat's manifest unwillingness to seek peace and one wonders: from what distant planet have they recently returned?

So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...

The single cell organism has an ancestor who probably came to earth frozen ice attached to a meteor that was blown off a distant plant due to some sort of plantary collision between a comet and a planet or two planets, or even a large meter collision... Evolution does not require that you believe to exist, it simply exists.

And the stars are distant campfires of ancestors... and planets (wanderers, or stars that move) are angels.

I don't wish to kill (all of) them, but if the entire Muslim culture disappeared overnight to a distant planet, I would not be eager to open communications with them.

It is rather ironic that we can forecast the far distant future of this planet more clearly than we can foresee the immediate human future on its surface.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

No, that's not the name of the newest muppet, nor is it a distant relative of the cutest, funniest little birds on the planet.

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets.

Co-authored by David Catling, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, the study peers deep into our planet's history to devise a novel recipe for finding single - celled life on faraway worlds in the not - too - distant future.

Discoveries of planets around distant stars have become almost routine.

The group of five planets, all smaller than Neptune, was found by citizen scientists scouring data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which measures light from distant stars.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Their first instinct was to run simulations involving a planet in a distant orbit that encircled the orbits of the six Kuiper Belt objects, acting like a giant lasso to wrangle them into their alignment.

«Mars mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets.»

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

TRAPPIST - 1, which is 39 light - years distant and just 8 % the mass of the sun, caught the team's attention because it was obvious from multiple dips that more than one planet orbited the star.

The space - warping quirks of relativity that lead to deviations from Newton's earlier theory of gravity only become obvious on very large scales, but our passive observations of distant planets, stars and galaxies have yet to deliver anything...

Here, tugged and flexed by the planet's huge gravitational pull, as well as that of the more distant moons Europa and Ganymede, friction keeps Io piping hot.

And indeed Planet Nine's existence helps explain more than just the alignment of the distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

In a paper posted to arXiv on 16 June and soon to be published in The Astronomical Journal, the OSSOS team describes eight of its most distant discoveries, including four of the type used to make the initial case for Planet Nine.

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

«We analyzed the data of these most distant Kuiper Belt objects,» Malhotra said, «and noticed something peculiar, suggesting they were in some kind of resonances with an unseen planet.»

In their paper, «Corralling a Distant Planet with Extreme Resonant Kuiper Belt Objects,» Malhotra and her co-authors, Kathryn Volk and Xianyu Wang, point out peculiarities of the orbits of the extreme KBOs that went unnoticed until now: they found that the orbital period ratios of these objects are close to ratios of small whole numbers.

Instead, like a parent maintaining the arc of a child on a swing with periodic pushes, Planet Nine nudges the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects such that their configuration with relation to the planet is presPlanet Nine nudges the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects such that their configuration with relation to the planet is presplanet is preserved.

Now, far beyond the eight planets and a billion miles beyond Pluto — the most distant object ever explored — this little prince of a planet is ready for its close - up.

So far, astronomers have found only a dozen of the most distant probes of Planet Nine's supposed sphere of influence.

Among other expected insights, a more detailed study of the chaotic Pluto - Charon system could reveal how planets orbiting a distant binary star might behave.

Air connects us to the most distant reaches of this planet, to all the life that has ever lived, even to the universe beyond.

Discoveries of distant planets are challenging theorists to think deeply about extraterrestrial life

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.

Van Eylen's planets matched the second picture: The largest of the rocky planets nestled close to the stars were bigger than the distant ones.

«It's not fair to take the close - in planets and assume that the more distant planets are just like them,» says exoplanet astronomer Courtney Dressing of the University of California, Berkeley.

Taking an optical image of distant planets is tough because the bright light from their stars drowns them out.

Kingston University London experts will explore how an artificial vision system inspired by the human eye could be used by robots of the future — opening up new possibilities for securing footage from deep forests, war zones and even distant planets.

Some researchers believe the mere presence on Earth of a meteorite from its distant neighbor underscores the possibility that life has been transferred from planet to planet.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

Contrary to predictions, two planets orbiting distant stars show no signs of water and other simple compounds; dark clouds or haze may hide them

As questions swirled around the existence of extrasolar planets in the late 1990s, Sara Seager, 36, gambled that these distant flickers transiting in front of stars would grow into astronomy's next frontier.

«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.