Sentences with phrase «giant objects in»

Speculation has suggested that Tilted Towers is set to be blown up, but now rumors abound that it's Dusty Depot that will meet its demise at the hands of a giant object in the sky.

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Our planet home is a giant spaceship, and it is vulnerable to all the objects wandering aimlessly about in space.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

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.

However, there are a few known Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) that are unlikely to be significantly perturbed by the known giant planets in their current orbits.

Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.

They found that groups of the objects cluster in different ways, suggesting that not one but two giant planets «shepherd» the smaller objects around (arxiv.org/abs/1406.0715).

Mathematical models, combined with our understanding of how planets and comets form, suggest that the objects in the Oort cloud must have been flung there by one of the giant planets closer to the sun.

Astronomers using the VLA, along with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India, regularly observed the object from September onward.

It gives further evidence of how Titan, despite its location in orbit around a gas giant in the outer Solar System, is one of the most Earth - like objects ever studied.

Using similar techniques originally inspired by string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes — predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

About 12 billion years ago, the gas warmed from 8000 to 15,000 kelvin, probably due to heating from quasars, objects powered by giant black holes, the team will report in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In July an object resembling a giant mushroom screamed through the atmosphere, surviving 1,000 - degree temperatures and 20 - g forces before plunging into waters off North Carolina.

The moon is thought to have formed from a disc of debris left when a giant object hit the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, very early in Earth's history.

This will allow it to produce images of extended objects in the night sky such as giant cosmic clouds of gas and dust.

General relativity also is the bedrock of gravitational lensing, which uses the gravity of stars and galaxies as a giant magnifying glass to zoom in on farther cosmic objects.

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Swift also may see faint bursts from the first stars in the universe: giant objects that probably created large black holes more than 13 billion years ago, Grindlay predicts.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

The Moon is thought to have formed from a disc of debris left when a giant object hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago, very early in Earth's history.

Giant clouds of molecular gas — the most massive objects in our galaxy — are the birthplaces of stars.

Previous research suggested these giants release extraordinarily large amounts of light when they rip apart stars and devour matter, and likely are the driving force behind quasars, which are among the brightest objects in the universe.

If Planet X is out there, Brown and Batygin say, astronomers ought to find more objects in telltale orbits, shaped by the pull of the hidden giant.

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal.

Recent studies of an association of stars called TW Hya have revealed some of the first known isolated giant planet - sized objects in the neighborhood of our own Sun, about 100 light years away.

At CES, the world's biggest technology show, in Las Vegas last week, Google demonstrated more than 350 voice - controlled devices including speakers, cars and objects as well as a giant toy town complete with a railway.

«In order for the asteroids to pass sufficiently close to the white dwarf to be shredded, then eaten, they must be perturbed from the asteroid belt — essentially pushed — by a massive object like a giant planet,» said Farihi.

The Earth and moon can serve as giant detectors for ripples in the fabric of space - time known as gravitational waves, which are given off by stars, black holes and other massive objects in deep space, researchers say.

Ceres, a dwarf planet or giant asteroid (depending on the definition used), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, orbiting at 2.8 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the sun).

In fact, it would have been extremely difficult to detect this substellar object around a highly evolved star like Edasich, because giant stars often pulsate and produce radial velocity patterns similar to substellar companions.

It will also be possible to study details of exotic objects in our Solar System, such as volcanoes on Io, and the atmospheres of giant exoplanets.

The infrared telescope will observe Mars and the giant planets, dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris, and even the small bodies in our solar system: asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects.

This allows it to study a variety of astronomical objects, such as the molecular gas in planetary nebulae, molecules on active comets, the heating mechanisms of red giants and the afterglows of gamma - ray bursts.

Going outside at night at one of these observatories and seeing the eyes of giant telescopes staring up at the sky, gathering in photons from distant objects, is an extraordinary experience.

A subsequent search ruled out close - orbiting giant planets and similar objects at least as large as 0.878 Jupiter - mass in circular orbits within three AUs of Star A (Wittenmyer et al, 2006, Table 5).

The Hyades cluster is a bright object in Taurus, but the view is partially ruined by Aldebaran - a brilliant orange giant star that lies in front of the cluster at less than half the distance.

I believe the body is a master at cleaning and ridding itself of problematic items, in its own time and way, and inserting some foreign object into your body and then shooting water up inside to «clean it out» like we are a giant metal oil drum, is just the most insane idea.

Men flushed down giant toilet - like object and land in outdoor washroom.

He giggles manically as he swings his twin scimitars for his normal attacks while his special attack involve using the power of twilight to summon large objects to swat at his enemies with, or in one memorable attack simply growing to giant proportions himself to belly flop on the enemy army.

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Godzilla has a fairly small role in this rendition; there are a couple other giant beasts, huge insects, dubbed MUTO (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Object), which dominate the movie's story arc.

In addition to the game's inherent zaniness, I discovered a sizeable upgrade system that lets you unlock buffs and wacky powers — like the ability to trap your enemies in giant floating bubbles or an upgrade that turns you into a bulldozer when you sprint into environmental objectIn addition to the game's inherent zaniness, I discovered a sizeable upgrade system that lets you unlock buffs and wacky powers — like the ability to trap your enemies in giant floating bubbles or an upgrade that turns you into a bulldozer when you sprint into environmental objectin giant floating bubbles or an upgrade that turns you into a bulldozer when you sprint into environmental objects.

The trailer is packed with fun moments — Michael Peña's scene - stealing Luis is back and getting in on the action, there are more unlikely objects being blown up in the non-Michael Bay sense (giant salt shaker!)

There are metal boxes that move up and down the street, bags of sweet powder that fill your mouth with explosions of delight, soft barky things that jump up and lick your hand, tall giants with rustling leaves and little feathery objects that fly around in them singing songs.

For example, his limbs might become giant magnets, enabling him to walk up walls or rip away enemy shields... Or maybe extendible spring - loaded hands would allow him to activate far - away switches or work as a grappling hook... Or he could have a tank - like body, easily crossing over spikes and pushing objects around the levels... These are just a few possibilities we're considering (the game is still in the design phase), but you get the idea!

Players can build their own wearable Toy - Con Robot suit and assume control of a giant in - game robot, completing challenges and destroying objects to unlock powerful new abilities.

In Giant mode, you have a distant view of the level and can move objects and characters around to where you want them.

Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, let's get on to the issue at hand, and that's that I posit the idea that the 3D Classics are simply a shiny object meant to take our attention away from the fact that SEGA has been just a tad more active in the West than Hudson, Atari or Acclaim, all mashed together into a giant amalgamation of lost hope and glory.

You are a tiny, lime Tic - Tac with legs rolling around a giant stick ball that pick up objects, animals, people, and buildings in order to rebuild the universe.