Sentences with phrase «distant planets -lsb-»

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around...

We've assaulted the virtual shores of Normandy a thousand times over, drank from umpteen different toilets in Fallout and similar titles, picked between the holy trinities of human / elf / dwarf and warrior / rogue / mage countless times, and have explored many distant planets.

I tried five leading interior antennas, ranging from one that resembles a sheet of paper you stick to a wall to one that looks like it should be receiving signals from distant planets.

People fly to the moon, they install equipment on Mars or distant planets, but no scientist was ever able to prevent a thunderstorm.

Boris (# 121) points out that contrarians are more than happy to accept the trends calculated for a few distant planets if it obscures the cause of the trends seen on Earth — even though the data which we have on those trends have a great deal more uncertainty associated with them (see Nicholar L's # 88), and as an explanation in terms of solar variability is not credible (ibid.)

LA - based artist Kathryn Andrews, in conjunction with composer Scott Benzel, will present a new performance in which performers summon alien beings from distant planets.

The best Hill Climbing Game in the Google Play store.RoverCraft is an exciting arcade journey, played on the hills of distant planets on a rover that you have built.

In Elegy, players explore distant planets and write about the people who lived there.

In Elegy, players explore distant planets -LSB-...]

Your job as a colony manager is to explore and populate distant planets.

Instead of focusing on big - picture goals like taking my first steps on distant planets, contracts have me duct - taping and kit - bashing single - use spacecraft to take a new landing gear to a certain height and speed, checking off a box to get paid.

Do you therefore use them at the out fringes of your territory in order to get ships to the frontlines quickly and to defend distant planets?

Tiny globe pendants, flickering like distant planets, hang from a double - height ceiling.

On the rare occasion that she gained control of the television, she watched Star Trek and imagined living in the future, on distant planets, or at least in a town big enough to have a stop light.

From adventures in distant futures on distant planets to tongue - in - cheek satires and magical fairy tales to all - too - possible dystopian thrillers, we've rounded up some of the best offerings from 2015.

I traveled to distant planets, to Fairyland, to a Comic - Con.

The absurd irrationality of social and economic systems that despise the living community for the profit of a minority human elite, converting all source of life into market products, has forced us to migrate to distant planets to safeguard human survival.

It seems Damon has trouble being left alone on distant planets in sci - fi movies these days.

We've assaulted the virtual shores of Normandy a thousand times over, drank from umpteen different toilets in Fallout and similar titles, picked between the holy trinities of human / elf / dwarf and warrior / rogue / mage countless times, and have explored many distant planets.

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

The premise of the show centered around human civilization on distant planets being wiped out by machines known as Cylons.

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

Both were orphans from distant planets who were sent to Earth as children (hello, Superman) when their home planets were being sucked into a black hole.

Although GPI was designed to look at distant planets, it can also observe objects in our Solar System.

These distant planets are great for number counting, but they are too far away for their atmosphere or reflected light to be detected.

«Our species» natural curiosity is what will drive us to distant planets,» Hawking said in the film.

Other researchers look for ice much, much farther away, on distant planets and moons where ice may hide surprising secrets.

Listening to the Stars February 05, 2014 Astronomy data can be converted into beautiful images of galaxies, stars, and distant planets.

This theory that land and life have a symbiotic, planetary relationship could indicate that continents spotted on distant planets may be home to living things, too.

Future telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will be able to give researcher more information about distant planets.

Research in the field of extrasolar planets is advancing rapidly as new technologies enable the detection of smaller and more distant planets as well as the characterization of previously detected planets.

Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light - years from Earth, c...

Scientists estimate that by 2020 or so, we should be able to directly image distant planets, analyze their atmospheres, and look for telltale signs of biological life more easily than ever before.

While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was «on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history» during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.

The more distant planets (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) which move slower and have a greater distance to travel, complete just a fraction of their orbits in this time.

It's one of the tools JWST will use to capture sight of distant planets passing in front of stars, then analyze the data to be able to identify worlds where the signatures of life, like water and methane, are present.

One French researcher thinks these combined behaviors could influence things like the atmosphere, chemistry, and climate of some distant planets.

What can be observed as signs of carbon - based life on distant planets?

New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets Science News Magazine

Of course, zipping off to distant planets, moons and stars isn't as simple as thumbing a ride with a Vogon or booking passage with a Corellian smuggler and his Wookiee copilot.

ASU astronomers will join with geophysicists and geochemists in a $ 6.1 million grant to ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration that will try to explore how to tell whether chemical signs of life on distant planets arose from geological processes or biological ones.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light - years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.

Yale researchers have found a data - driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth.

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.

Journey to the Exoplanets is a hands - on introduction to the distant planets that continue to be discovered outside our Solar System.

With its heavy - lift capability, the rocket can fling larger probes to distant planets more quickly — and, perhaps, more cheaply — than previous rockets.

19 Today general relativity is so well understood that it is used to weigh galaxies and locate distant planets by the way they bend light.

Robotic spacecraft voyage to distant planets while giant mountaintop observatories and space - based telescopes probe the edge of the Universe.

Techniques now coming of age allow astronomers to more easily photograph distant planets rather than inferring their presence indirectly

If further research confirms the model's accuracy, it could also open new avenues for exploring the origin of life on Earth, and for understanding the role hydrogen gas might play in supporting life in a wide range of extreme environments, from the sunless deep - sea floor to distant planets.