Sentences with phrase «great distance»

One extreme example is a planet that is 650 AU from its star (650 times the Earth - Sun distance).16 That great distance may have resulted from the stretching of space during the creation week, as explained on pages 449 — 464.

«Aedes aegypti are day - time biters and don't move a great distance, so this study really isn't of much relevance to Zika.

Nearly 900 extrasolar planets have been confirmed to date, but now for the first time astronomers think they are seeing compelling evidence for a planet under construction in an unlikely place, at a great distance from its diminutive red dwarf star.

According to it, a particle can impact a far - off twin instantly and overcome the great distance that separates them.

What is strange about the quasars is not their great distance, but, rather, their incredible luminosities.

It appears to be a main sequence red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M4.5 V. Because of its small mass and great distance from the primary (Star A), Upsilon Andromedae B appears to have a negligible effect on the radial velocity measurements used to determine that Star A has at least three large planets (Lowrance et al, 2002).

After such collisions, an atom should recoil a great distance back into its cloud, because all of the other atoms there share its spin state and so don't interact with it and slow it down.

It should be professional; don't use a selfie or something that shows you at some great distance waving from a boat or the top of a mountain.

If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there is plenty of space in between for other atoms.

At the great distance of the object, this corresponds to a diameter of about 40 000 light years, but the object could be larger.

Such a structure would be vanishingly unlikely to come about naturally, and it would be recognizable at a great distance.

Those planets make for good imaging targets thanks to their great distance from their host star.

Such entanglement had been observed before, but never over such a great distance.

Nobody has ever conclusively seen a moon orbiting a planet in another stellar system, partly because their small size and great distance makes them difficult to find with modern detection methods.

Fifty - seven centimeters is not a great distance, but the fog produced for the study is far denser than any that a human driver would have to contend with; in the real world, a typical fog might afford a visibility of about 30 to 50 meters.

Any probe that has to travel such a great distance has to build up a lot of speed, so each ship would see only one hemisphere of Pluto as it flew by.

And a major newspaper reported that the new experiment proved «that objects separated by great distance can instantaneously affect each other's behavior.»

Direct measurement of the absorption features in the spectrum of the afterglow toward GRB 130606A, located at a great distance, revealed the proportion of neutral hydrogen gas absorbing the light in its vicinity.

A fraction of these lost stars may still be gravitationally bound to the cluster and surround it at a great distance.

But to the astronomers» astonishment, the RR Lyrae stars do not follow football - shaped orbits, but have large random motions more consistent with their having formed at a great distance from the centre of the Milky Way.

When Comet ISON was first spotted in September 2012, it was relatively bright for a comet at such a great distance from the sun.

«Due to their great distance and dustiness, these galaxies remain completely undetected at visible wavelengths,» noted Riechers.

He deduced them to be at a great distance (too far for their individual stars to be detectable), each of them another entire «universe» like the Milky Way.

Across successive generations, the long neck would have become an ever more reliable species marker for giraffeness, thereby enabling a partner to be spotted even from a great distance.

«That can cause mountains to form at a great distance from where you're pushing on things,» Schutt said.

ETA CARINAE The most luminous star in our galaxy is dimmed by obscuring matter and by its great distance — 7,000 light - years away.

Imagine twins, Lloyd instructs us, separated a great distance apart.

Best known for depriving Pluto of planethood by showing that there are many similar bodies in orbit beyond Neptune, Eris's great distance from the sun means the effects of general relativity become negligible.

The arrow shot, which was probably fatal, seems to have been launched from a great distance and took the victim by surprise, from which we may infer that it was an act of treachery.

A Western New York classic for barbecue chicken, Chiavetta's boasts a full stand at the Erie County Fair, and chances are you can smell it from a great distance away.

Due to the increasing population of the Southern Precinct of Dutchess County and the great distance of these communities from the county seat, [6] Poughkeepsie, Putnam was split from Dutchess in 1812.

Unless the cemetery is a great distance away, I see no reason why you shouldn't be permitted to visit your mother's grave and pay your respects.

The baby and carseat cab get heavy fast, and it's challenging to carry the baby any great distance, especially if you have to park in a parking garage and then tote the little one to a doctor's appointment.

The extra pressure is due to the great distance that exists between the head and the mattress when you sleep on your side.

We are equally excited that we get to share this wonderful part of Nashville with everyone that will travel a small or great distance to spend some time with us.

Ernesto Valverde and his men definitely do not want a second poor result in a row, not only to keep their great distance to Atlético Madrid but also avoid a dip in confidence ahead of Tuesday's giant Champions League match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

The great distance of the course was somewhat relieved by the fact of Mexico City's altitude.

Not that they don't have brushfires once in a while, but their testing, their education, their discipline programs have gone a great distance in resolving the problem.»

Rock - hard peach that have traveled a great distance never seem to develop much flavor as they ripen, and often go to mush.

«We are a great distance behind McDonald's, but we are slowly taking from them and our other competitors.»

The robe swept down for a great distance, becoming indistinct far below, lost in clouds of thick darkness, with lightning flickering within and without.

The global system — economic, regulatory, and philanthropic — operates at a great distance from any form of natural solidarity capable of challenging its power.

He puts his moral ideals at a great distance from himself and regards them as a separate reality, or as God.

It is said, for example, that a man once came from a great distance to study under Rabbi Shneur Zalman, the founder of the Lubavitcher Hasidim.

Love, in terms that are relevant to international politics, means caring for the welfare and the dignity of all — those at a great distance, those on the other side of every boundary, those whose interests may conflict with our national interests, those who are enemies or opponents.

«You must excuse me,» he said after a moment, in a voice that somehow was both perfectly audible and yet, at the same time, seemed to emanate from a very great distance; «It was not my intention to cause you alarm.»

However, I mainly wanted to draw attention to the story of Joseph — which requires only a little literalism to traverse a great distance.

«If Jesus is not the Son of God,» Cardinal Ratzinger said, «then God really is at a great distance from us.»

He can heal from a great distance, without a word and without any touch.

A great distance separates the infraction of a rule concerning dress, food, or participation in certain activities from violating basic moral ordinances by outspoken criminal acts.