Sentences with phrase «giants millions of miles»

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Hubble was about 400 - 500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's backlit silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:

County and municipal officials presented two sites that they believe could serve as viable locations for the e-commerce giant: the sprawling Chester City waterfront and nearly 1 million square feet of open and redevelopable land in Middletown Township, seven miles away.

STIS detected the giant structures as far away as 37 billion miles (60 million kilometers) away from V Hydrae, more than eight times farther away than the Kuiper Belt of icy debris at the edge of our solar system is from the sun.

As these giant scavengers move to reoccupy their full seven - million - square - mile range, scientists are using state - of - the - art technology to guide the Pleistocene - period survivors toward full self - sustainability.

Red giant stars reach sizes of 100 million to 1 billion kilometers in diameter (62 million to 621 million miles), 100 to 1,000 times the size of the sun today.

The gas giant exoplanet orbits the binary red dwarfs at a distance of 300 million miles — approximately the distance of the solar system's asteroid belt from the sun.

The research reveals that the powerful winds have the ability to shift the boundary of the gas giant's magnetosphere back by as much as a million miles, creating a stunning X-ray aurora in the process that is observable by the powerful X-ray capabilities of the Chandra telescope.

Neither feral cats, nor even just a giant rug made from their fur, really cover all the nearly three million square miles of Australia, the world's sixth largest nation by land mass.

The actual sun, that giant fireball of hydrogen and helium gas 93 million miles from Earth.