Sentences with phrase «greater than our planet»

This exoplanet is about 600 million light years away from Earth, and has a radius that is 2.4 times greater than our planet's.

Not exact matches

Women see lesser business potential in the SDGs related to the planet than men, but they see greater business potential in peace, whereas men and women both rate jobs and inclusive economies as the greatest drivers of business potential.

The historic fact remains, and we in the twentieth century, with a conception of God infinitely greater than that of any previous generation, may have to short - circuit the centuries and let the startling truth break over us afresh — that we live on a visited planet.

Like you get to be Kings and Gods of your own planets after you die, oh, wait, that's already taken by the Mormons... but seriously, why are you so self centered to think you get to live on even though your life span is no greater than that of some tortoises (in fact one tortoise named Hanako lived to the very ripe age of 226 years).

Anything to ignore that the greatest country on the planet as a less than adequate health care system.

This huge, blue planet is in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the beauty around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders of life... because none of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away into nothingness... become one with the dirt, because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or... not... in this... country... that has... no particular meaning... in the grand scheme of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme of things»... so never mind.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

It has always seemed to me, however, and I have been walking around this planet for half a century now, it takes more thought, action, trust, study and a far greater degree of intelligence to believe in something rather than nothing.

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.

How could less than 1 % of the American Muslim population takes the greatest nation on planet Earth hostage so easily?!

The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.

«Support the campaign, support the planet — it could not be easier than with us with a great choice of over 21 delicious, freshly prepared and ethically - sourced vegetarian dishes to choose from.

But is there an easier scapegoat than a bald, begoggled, heavy - legged guy who turns 42 on April 16, no matter that he's the greatest scorer on Planet Earth?

Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!

The researchers then calculated the planets» sizes — between one and four times the Earth — with about four times greater precision than in previous studies.

Lake Urmia, in Iran's northwestern corner, was once the planet's sixth largest salt lake, covering about 5200 square kilometers — a bit larger than the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

The group defined a plutoid as an object orbiting the sun at an average distance greater than Neptune's, massive enough to assume a nearly spherical shape (as planets do) but not massive enough to clear its orbital path of other bodies (as planets also do).

The giant - impact theory can account for the high angular momentum of the Earth - moon system, which is greater than that of any known planet - satellite system.

«There will be greater investment [in alternatives] if there's greater confidence that a technology or fuel will not do more harm than good to the planet,» Leffin said.

The flux detected at 0.8 μm is also consistent with that of a planet with mass no greater than a few times that of Jupiter.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This long - sought world was announced with great excitement in 2012 as the first Earth - mass planet in the nearest star system to our own, but a new statistical analysis has revealed it to be nothing more than an apparition.

Some meteor strikes in Mars's past were powerful enough to propel pieces of the planet's crust at speeds greater than escape velocity, some 3.1 miles per second.

This is because their intense magnetic activity interferes with the light emitted by the star to a far greater extent than a potential giant planet, even in a close orbit.

Kepler - 13Ab's strong surface gravity — six times greater than Jupiter's — then pulls the titanium oxide snow out of the upper atmosphere and traps it in the lower atmosphere on the nighttime side of the planet.

Named K2 - 229b, the planet is almost 20 % larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two - and - a-half times greater - and reaches a dayside temperature of over 2000 °C (2330 Kelvin).

It turns out that planets with radii greater than about 1.7 times that of Earth are have a gassy envelope, like Neptune, and those with radii smaller than this are rocky, like our home planet.

Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity ofPlanet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity ofplanet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity of life.

Radiation levels on the ISS are 100 times greater than on Earth because the station is not protected by the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field.

The findings suggest that the diversity of bacteria in extreme environments is even greater than previously thought, and the authors suggest that salt deposits on other planets might be a good place to search for extraterrestrial life.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

The man who limned the laws that guide the paths of stars, planets, and falling apples had this to say about the universe: «I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»

A larger sixth planet, closer in mass to Saturn, also appears significantly in the data at a greater distance from HD 10180, but the study's authors note that the signal could be caused by a long - term magnetic cycle on the star rather than the tug of an orbiting planet.

Of all the planets in the solar system other than Earth, Mars has arguably the greatest potential for life, either extinct or extant.

The greater depth in the KELT paper means they arrive at a slightly larger planet radius (1.29 ± 0.10 Jupiter radii) than we do (1.20 ± 0.06) but here the error ranges overlap.

(Particles trying to merge on the side of a growing planet closest to the star would feel a much greater gravitational pull from the star than merging particles on the far side of the planet; those tidal forces would pull a growing planet apart.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

Most minor planets have rotation periods that are greater than about 2.2 hours with the majority being between 4 and 10 hours.

With JWST, a few hours of integration time will be enough to detect Earth - like levels of water vapor, molecular oxygen, carbon dioxide and other generic biosignatures on planets orbiting a white dwarf; beyond that, observing the same planet for up to 1.7 days will be enough to detect the two CFCs in concentrations of 750 parts per trillion, or 10 times greater than on Earth.

Named K2 - 229b, the planet is almost 20 % larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two - and - a-half times greater — and reaches a dayside temperature of over 2000 °C (2330 Kelvin).

For eleven of them (KOI - 0571.05, 1422.04, 1422.05, 2529.02, 3255.01, 3284.01, 4005.01, 4087.01, 4622.01, 4742.01, and 4745.01) we show that the likelihood they are true planets is far greater than that of a false positive, to a confidence level of 99.73 % (3 sigma) or higher.

Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, and discovered a world where raging winds blow at nearly 5,400 miles per hour — nearly 20 times greater than the fastest ever recorded on Earth.

The super-earth's mass is about 7 times greater than that of our planet, and it would be two times bigger in mass.

For planets with eccentricity 0.5, our EBM suggests that the greatest habitable semimajor axis can vary by more than 0.8 AU (78 %!)

The tropics are home to a far greater diversity of life than any other region on the planet, but the reasons for this disparity have puzzled scientists for centuries.

«Finding multiple planets in the habitable zone of their host star is a great discovery because it means that there can be even more potentially habitable planets per star than we thought,» said Kaltenegger.

This portion of the spectrum, which is more energetic than most radio waves yet less energetic than visible and infrared light, holds the key to understanding a great variety of fundamental processes, including planet and star formation, and the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the early Universe.

They then concentrated only on candidates that met a greater than 99 percent probability of being a planet.

Now, giant cyclones at the planet's poles have been seen in greater detail than ever before — they are not only stunning, but unique from atmospheric storms of any other planet in the Solar System, even other gas and ice giants.