Sentences with phrase «farthest known planet»

It used to be classed a planet and used to be the farthest known planet from the Sun.

For the first time since Pluto's discovery in 1930, astronomers at last see directly see details on the surface of the solar system's farthest known planet...

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If there's any question that Apple has taken over the planet, look no further than Justin Timberlake's latest music video.

Does anyone know why Earth and are other planets look so perfectly round from far away?

========== @keep on believin» Life has evolved (as far as we know) on one planet out of the trillions -LRB-?)

Why would a Nobel Prize winning geneticist — someone who knew more about the basis «stuff» of life than just about anyone else on the planet — propose such a far - out theory?

In global consciousness we know that, if we go far enough back in time, we share a common origin not only with people from very different cultural and religious backgrounds, but also with all forms of life on the planet.

As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.

No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far in the universe not have they even explained even the tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this planet.

And now, to me, football is a further exercise in getting to know and love this world, this planet.

«It seems to me we're only, as far as we know, on this planet once.

Because planets that are close to their stars are easier for telescopes to see, most of the rocky super-Earths discovered so far have close - in orbits — with years lasting between about two to 100 Earth days — making the worlds way too hot to host life as we know it.

The Life of Super-Earths by Dimitar Sasselov Of the 700 planets astronomers have found so far in distant solar systems, most are places that are extremely hostile to life as we know it: searing - hot gas giants where iron could fall as rain and winds might blow in excess of 1,000 miles per hour.

Marshall and his colleagues proved the concept of testing for vanadium on known microfossils with acknowledged biological origins on Earth — organic microfossils called acritarchs that might not be far from the kinds of traces of life possibly existing on the Red Planet.

As far as I know, we're the only people who have ever seen that on this planet.

No further transits have occurred since 2007 — the unseen planet J1407b and its rings have yet to complete another orbit around their star.

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions.

But at the planet's far polar regions, some of these particles enter our atmosphere and provide the sweeping light shows we know as auroras.

No one yet knows whether any planets orbit Alpha Centauri A or B, but because both stars are so much larger and brighter than Proxima, their habitable zones are much further out, allowing any as - yet - undiscovered worlds to be more easily seen.

«We know that many planets are completely uninhabitable because they are either too close or too far from their sun.

We know how far a person standing on the surface is from the planets center (about 6,371 kilometers), so all we need to know is his mass, and then we can calculate Earth's mass.

Timing observations of a millisecond pulsar reveal a planet that is far denser than any known planet.

More tantalizingly, minor perturbations in the orbits of the farthest known objects suggest a massive «super-Earth» major planet might lurk about 250 AU away.

So far, all known lenses have either been enormous — millions of times the mass of the sun, like an entire galaxy — or relatively tiny, like a single planet.

How planets get to the region is not fully known; they may form there, or they may migrate inward from further out in the system.

Now an Israeli physicist predicts that a similar but far more subtle anomaly in the orbits of the planets, if detected, might prove his own theory, known as modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND.

It turns out that these exotic sea critters — affectionately known to the researchers in the study as «shrimp from Mars» — can see a kind of light that, as far as we know, is not apparent to any other animal on the planet.

More planet - size objects could lurk at Planet 9's impressive distance from the sun, and no one knows what oddities might exist 100 times farther out in the enormous Oort planet - size objects could lurk at Planet 9's impressive distance from the sun, and no one knows what oddities might exist 100 times farther out in the enormous Oort Planet 9's impressive distance from the sun, and no one knows what oddities might exist 100 times farther out in the enormous Oort Cloud.

Recent observations of extrasolar planets suggest that Mercury's structure might not be unique: the two smallest exoplanets whose densities are known, Kepler - 10b and Corot - 7b, are also far denser than expected, suggesting they share Mercury's orange - like structure.

So far there are only two known plutoids — Pluto and Eris, the latter of which enjoyed a fleeting moment of fame as the tenth planet.

«Although we are still far from knowing to what extent worms and their ilk influenced the geochemical history of our planet, this is a novel and testable hypothesis, which will inspire novel thinking,» writes Filip Meysman, a biogeochemist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Yerseke, in a commentary on the research in Nature Geoscience.

Based on these conclusions for Kepler - 34, it seems likely that all of the currently known circumbinary planets have also migrated significantly from their formation locations — with the possible exception of Kepler - 47 (AB) c which is further away from the binary stars than any of the other circumbinary planets.

You also have a really interesting piece by Robert Hazen, about the fact that the mineral diversity on earth is unique, well unique, as far as we know; because as it turns out so much of that diversity is the result of life itself on earth [itself] creating the minerals that we find on the planet.

In The Planet Factory, Elizabeth Tasker considers what is known so far, combining stories of discovery with a thorough introduction to exoplanetary science.

The more objects that are found at extreme distances, the better the chance of constraining the location of the ninth planet that Sheppard and Trujillo first predicted to exist far beyond Pluto (itself no longer classified as a planet) in 2014.

There are hundreds of planets a little bigger than Earth, but so far no way to know if they are «super-Earths,» or micro-sized gas and ice planets like Neptune, or something different altogether, he said.

Astronomers have now reported finding another one of the nearest known of these kinds of planets so far, Gliese -LSB-...]

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

The discovery has the potential to change what we know so far about the red planet's ancient history.

Ground - based observations did not shed much further light on the innermost planet, and it was not until space probes visited Mercury that many of its most fundamental properties became known.

Despite this, the 8.4 million mile distance between the super-Earth and the star likely make the planet far too hot to support life as we know it.

Other solar system bodies that are possibly dwarf planets include Sedna and Quaoar, small worlds far beyond Pluto's orbit, and 2012 VP113, an object that is thought to have one of the most distant orbits found beyond the known edge of our solar system.

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new moon located in the far reaches of our Solar System, orbiting the little - known dwarf planet Makemake.

Based on these conclusions for Kepler - 34, it seems likely that all of the currently known circumbinary planets have also migrated significantly from their formation locations - with the possible exception of Kepler - 47 (AB) c which is further away from the binary stars than any of the other circumbinary planets.

I knew the planet was problematic, perhaps too far on the outer edge of the habitable zone to be a realistic candidate, although this seems to depend on a variety of factors including atmospheric modeling.

And though who the heck knows what's going to happen to the world that far off into the future (or even after November 8th), Life Noggin decided to conduct a little brain exercise about how we could convert a planet like Mars or Venus, or a moon like Europa, into a...

There are hundreds of planets a little bigger than Earth out there, Macintosh said, but there is so far no way to know if most of them are really «super-Earths» or just micro-sized gas and ice planets like Neptune, or something different altogether.

For example, we know that as the planet warms, permafrost might melt and emit greenhouse gases of their own — warming the planet still further.

The index doesn't represent an absolute statistical prediction of whether complex life could be present on a planet; rather, it can be used to estimate the relative likelihood of life having evolved there, based on the conditions that we know are compatible with the evolution of complex life forms on a planet, and assuming that no further information is available.

Geologists knew of some fairly widespread glaciations in the past: there was an ice - age at the end of the Ordovician period, some 445 million years back and, going further back again, there were some huge, perhaps planet - wide glaciations in the Proterozoic eon.