Sentences with phrase «for millions of light years»

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Sales of light - duty trucks — which include small, midsize, large, and luxury SUVs — accounted for nearly 10.9 million of the 17.2 million vehicles sold in the US last year.

The company manufactures aerostructures to Boeing and Airbus, and 2014 was a very good year for it, particularly in light of its $ 621 million loss in 2013.

Resolute Mining Ltd has given the green light for a $ 77 million expansion of its Ravenswood project in Queensland, as the Perth - based gold miner attempts to capture some of the 25 - year - high gold price.

Globalization in particular generates a strong desire for identification: Imagine 300 million entrepreneurs trying to launch 150 million new businesses every year of which only one third will see the light of day.

Here's my question to you: Do you believe that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago in light of the dino soft tissue survival and the scientific conclusion that DNA / soft tissue could not survive for more than 10,000 years in a terperate environment?

and this supposedly went on for millions and millions of years until they finally developed actual wings and hollow bones and other lighter structures enabling flight?

How can we think of God's care for the world in light of the millions of years of suffering and death that have been a feature of evolution in the natural world?

There is also the gravitational field effect on light, causing a redshift, and this could be significant considering light travels for millions and even billions of years through space which is not devoid of a gravitational field during that time 3.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

It is hard to believe that a galaxy 100 million light years away, that we can't even see, was created as part of a god's plan for man.

How is that possible if it takes millions of years for the light from such distant stars to reach us?

Colback has just a year remaining on his deal at the Stadium of Light and has been made available for around # 4.5 million after turning down a new deal at the club, whilst Evian have priced Tie Bi slightly more modestly at just # 1 million.

If a star was a million light years away from Earth, you would Have to travel at the speed of Light for a million years to get tlight years away from Earth, you would Have to travel at the speed of Light for a million years to get tLight for a million years to get there.

Heathrow Express workers: # 700 Network Rail: # 500 Docklands Light Railway: # 900 Virgin Rail: # 500 London Overground: # 600 London Underground: At least # 850 BAA staff: up to # 1,200 London Underground maintenance workers at Tube Lines: # 850 London Overground maintenance workers employed by Bombardier: # 650 Workers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 million.

Bharara wants Silver, 72, to forfeit the $ 5.2 million he pocketed in the scheme and cough up «a substantial fine of at least $ 1 million is appropriate in this case, particularly in light of the defendant's significant remaining resources and his more than $ 70,000 - per - year pension, paid for by New York State taxpayers.»

The idea for these charges is to let people who in what's called «special lighting districts» to cover more of the $ 1.9 million bill National Grid sends every year to the city.

As well as the $ 15 million film hub, the company is building a $ 90 million factory for high - efficiency light bulb manufacturer Soraa — and any other projects Fort Schuyler carries out in the Greater Syracuse area as part of a deal that could run for as long as 10 years.

Observations of supernovas suggest that the universe is expanding at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years).

Nevertheless, on Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of robotic telescopes named ASASSN (All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae) picked up signals of a possible tidal disruption flare from a galaxy 300 million light years away.

It's fitting that this year's chemistry prize has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who used the institute's # 95 million Swiss Light Source for his prize - winning studies on the structure of the ribosome.

About 500 million years after the Big Bang, one of the first galaxies in the universe formed, containing stars of about the same mass as the sun — which can live for 10 billion years — as well as lighter stars.

After searching through images obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope's brand - new Advanced Camera for Surveys and the 10 - meter Keck Telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomer Michael West of the University of Hawaii, Hilo, and his colleagues in the United States and United Kingdom found what may be more than 300 intergalactic globular clusters, the farthest ones roughly 400 million light - years away.

According to the Alliance to Save Energy, new standards for efficient lighting could save 158 million tons of carbon emissions each year, the equivalent of the emissions from 80 coal - fired power plants.

Our carbon sees the light of day for the first time in 66 million years, and is headed for an entirely different, less peaceful destination.

Nick Sundt of WWF says if turning down White House lights wasn't possible for security reasons, the Administration could highlight climate change impacts around the country in a special event, promote energy - efficiency measures, or generally rally Americans to participate in an event that began with 2.2 million people in Sydney in 2007 and involved millions more last year in 35 countries.

When you see Jupiter shining in the night sky, for example, you're looking about an hour back in time, whereas the light from distant galaxies captured by telescopes today was emitted millions of years ago.

In recent years, Margaret Geller and John Huchra of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have compiled three — dimensional maps of the Universe which show galaxies spread in thin sheets surrounding bubble - like voids hundreds of millions of light years across.

When Grassley learned of Han's fraud, he wrote to the ORI, arguing that the 3 - year ban on federal research funding «seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies.»

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

That gave the telescope containing an intricate array of tiny light - admitting shutters about six minutes above the Earth's atmosphere — where light from the far ultraviolet light end of the spectrum is not filtered out — for a clear view of the target galaxy 56 million light years away.

Supernova measurements indicate that distant galaxies are separating from one another by 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of distance between them.

With the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomer Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University calculated that for every increase in distance of 3.2 million light - years, objects are receding at an additional 166,000 miles per hour.

A map of the dust in M82, 11.4 million light years away, was created by measuring how long it took for these light echoes to reach Earth.

Having only existed for about five million years, most of its stars are young and hot and shine with an intense blue light.

Current studies say the expansion rate is around 14 miles per second for each million light - years of distance.

Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years — a «standard ruler» for measuring expansion.

«We're detecting particles that started out hundreds of light - years away that have traveled for millions of years, and after all that time they're coming to an end here in our detector,» Murphy marvels.

Harrison's model can explain features of the Universe that have stumped cos - mologists, such as huge chains of galaxies that stretch for hundreds of millions of light years.

Measurements based on exploding stars suggest that distant galaxies are speeding away from each other at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of space between them.

After that, it takes less than a million years for the gas drag to move the black holes to within just a few light years of one another.

Central Colorado's Tava sandstone (light - colored band of rock at center, with geology student for scale) probably formed between 680 million and 800 million years ago, a new study suggests.

In our galaxy the rotating bar may play a similar role, and the tentative discovery of a 360 - degree spiral arm, Benjamin says, certainly strengthens the case that we, too, live in a grand - design spiral — a galaxy so attractive that it may be the envy of its spiral neighbors for many millions of light - years around.

Both are huge, extending for millions of light - years, and very massive: each is about one quadrillion times the mass of our Sun.

After accounting for the deflection of the cosmic rays by the Milky Way's magnetic field, the team found that the particles are travelling about 326 million light years from a region of extragalactic space containing several potential sources, such as active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies.

«The most exciting thing we now see in the new observations is the head of the cloud coming back towards us at more than 10 million km / h along the orbit — about 1 % of the speed of light,» adds Reinhard Genzel, leader of the research group that has been studied this region for nearly twenty years.

However, merging black holes circle each other for millions of years, so scientists had expected that any gas or other nearby light - generating debris would be cleared away long before the duo actually collided.

In a study published on Jan. 2 in the journal Nature Communications titled «Extreme sensitivity to ultra-violet light in the fungal pathogen causing white - nose syndrome of bats,» the research team suggests that P. destructans is likely a true fungal pathogen of bats that evolved alongside bat species in Europe and Asia for millions of years, allowing Eurasian bats to develop defenses against it.

The investigation further found that penalties for these practices were relatively light, and that many of the firms that run these facilities were awarded tens of millions of dollars in profits in the same years that major safety lapses occurred.

This image shows a standard prediction for the dark matter distribution within about 1 million light years of the Milky Way galaxy, which is expected to be swarming with thousands of small dark matter clumps called «halos».

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).