Sentences with phrase «even distant planets»

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

Comets, meteorites, planets, moons, stars and even exploding stars can be seen without a telescope, and hence, when they are brought closer for inspection with such an instrument as the telescope, these distant objects are not so mysterious, just somewhat so.

«These signals would have begun their journey before our planet even existed, and after five billion years of travelling through space without hitting anything, they've fallen into the telescope and allowed us to see this distant galaxy for the very first time.»

Its specialty will be time - domain spectroscopy — useful for observing accretion by galactic black holes, surveys of distant supernovae and even searches for extrasolar planets.

The more distant planets and their squadrons of satellites remained as tantalising dots of light even with a telescope, allowing plenty of scope for imagination about conditions on those alien worlds.

The planets discovered by EDEN are the closest worlds to us — these will be the planets humankind may send probes or perhaps even visit in the distant future.

It might even seed the atmosphere of distant, lifeless planets with trace amounts of oxygen.

Enough observations would allow an orbit to be calculated, but even two observations should make a planet more likely than a distant star if (relative) motion is detected.

Sheppard and Trujillo suggest a super Earth or an even larger object at hundreds of AU could create the shepherding effect seen in the orbits of these objects, which are too distant to be perturbed significantly by any of the known planets.

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.

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.)

At times, as Steve Coll makes clear in his remarkable book Private Empire, the oil industry has been willing to use explicit violence — those attack dogs in North Dakota have their even more brutal counterparts in distant parts of the planet.

«Since India is the third largest emitter, even if that is a distant third, our position at Lima will be an indication of how much political momentum can be created to move the world towards a planet saving and fair deal.»

In seconds, they can make even the most distant planet feel real.