Sentences with phrase «greater than our sun»

«These waves are caused by massive collisions between objects with a mass far greater than our sun.

Yet according to detailed measurements of the relative motions of the surrounding stars, the team reports in an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics, that like every neighboring star, the mass of the magnetar's progenitor must have been at least 40 times greater than the sun's.

Bigger stars with masses at least five times greater than the sun's have much shorter life spans — sometimes only a few hundred thousand years — and die spectacularly in huge explosions called supernovae.

The young star that was studied, G345.4938 +01.4677, is located in the Scorpius constellation and has a mass 15 times greater than the Sun.

An analysis by the MIT and Caltech found that the two black holes joined about 1.3 billion years ago, and their mass was 29 - 36 times greater than the Sun.

Because of their large masses (each greater than the Sun's mass) and rapidly changing small distances, the gravity ripples should be noticeable.

This supermassive black hole, which has a mass 800 million times greater than the sun, formed when the universe was only 690 million years old.

Not exact matches

«The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.»

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

NIF is expected to achieve temperatures and densities almost an order of magnitude greater than those in the sun's core and pressures far in excess of those at the core of Jupiter.

At one time people approved of claims such as «the world is flat», «humans can not survive at speeds greater than 25 miles per hour», «the sun revolves around the earth» but all these claims turned out to be false.

The statement «We breed a great variety of dogs,» which rests on direct observation, is much easier to prove than the statement that the earth goes around the sun, which requires sophisticated reasoning.

I too have bought quite a few Christian albums of late where I've initially thought, wow, there are some great tunes on here, only to realise they seem purposefully vague to the point that they make more references to setting suns and emotions than anything Godly.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

But the shock is even greater when we learn that these myriads of suns scattered in the void are no more than the grains forming a super-grain of infinitely greater magnitude, and that this in its turn is no more than one unit amid a myriad of similar units!

The sun the moon and visible stars were «set into the expanse» and now these lights rather than early lights from star and galaxy formation regulate and have greatest affect.

For example, we know with certainty that the Earth is roughly spherical and revolves around the Sun - not flat and at the center of the solar system, as was once erroneously believed by people in a greater state of ignorance than ours at present.

Even now I still spend a lot of time thinking about what to snack on and it usually ends up involving rice crackers with some form of spread — guacamole, almond butter, sun dried tomato type creations etc... I love all these snacks, they're great, but sometimes I think I can do better than rice crackers!

Unshaded coffee plants grown with fertilizer yield the most coffee, although unfertilized shaded crops generally yield more than unfertilized unshaded crops: the response to fertilizer is much greater in full sun.

Unshaded coffee tree grown with fertilizer yield the most Kona, although unfertilized shaded crops generally yield more than unfertilized unshaded crops: the response to fertilizer is much greater in full sun.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

Whether your baby naps in the stroller or you want protection from the sun, we have not seen a canopy that offers greater coverage than this one.

The sun shade is much more expansive than it looks in the photos - fully expanded it can almost cover the whole front, which is great when we're facing the sun on our walks.

So here's my pros and cons: Pro: style, comfort, maneuverability, smooth ride, easy folding, adjustable push bar, great amount of storage space, quality build, pull out sun visor is more useful than I anticipated!

[NYDN] • The Sun pooh - poohed the idea that our economic situation was worth «Paterson's panic»: «It sounded as if New York was in the midst of a Great Depression rather than a mere slowdown in what is, after all, one of the most prosperous states in one of the most prosperous economies in the history of the world.»

The distance between Vesta and Ceres is greater than the distance between Earth and the sun.

The temperature of the BLAPs turned out to be five times greater than that of the Sun — something that is characteristic of hot dwarfs.

But when Hugues Sana of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and colleagues looked at 71 stars with masses greater than 15 times that of our sun, they found that more than 70 per cent revolve with a companion in a binary system (Science, doi.org/h4k).

The sun's cast - off electrons and ions move so fast they can easily be deflected by electric and magnetic fields to create what Winglee terms a mini-magnetosphere — with a greater surface area than that of projected solar sails.

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 suns rays pass through a greater length of atmosphere at sunrise and sunset than at any other time of day.

Although the consequences are roughly comparable in either case, an important difference is that objects in the solar system that circle far away from the sun on long - period orbits before returning, such as comets, would hit the earth at much greater velocities than close - orbiting (short - period) bodies, such as asteroids.

«Grasping the sun and bringing it to earth is greater than going to the moon and decoding DNA,» he says.

They would emit light that is much, much hotter than, say, light coming from the stars or sun, because their temperature is many orders of magnitude greater.

HD 93129Aa is an O - type star that is approximately two and a half million times brighter than the Sun, and has a mass 80 times greater.

«We have provided a scalable and versatile 3D cancer model that shows a greater resemblance to natural cancer than 2D cultured cancer cells,» says the lead author, Professor Wei Sun of Tsinghua University in China and Drexel University in the United States.

On a larger scale, the Sun belongs to another irregularity — our Galaxy, an aggregate of stars with a density about a hundred thousand times greater than the average density of matter in the Universe.

NIF uses the world's highest energy laser to crush peppercorn - sized targets filled with fusion fuel (a combination of hydrogen isotopes) to a temperature and pressure greater than in the core of the sun.

Today, their centers are about half as far apart as Mercury is from the sun, but Belczynski's team says this distance will grow until it's slightly greater than that between the sun and Earth.

It was to collide streams of protons at energies of up to 40 teraelectronvolts, more than a million times greater than the energies found in the Sun.

According to the experiments of Langley, the carbon dioxide and the water vapor, which the atmosphere contains, are more opaque to the heat rays of great wave lengths which are emitted by the earth, than to the waves of various lengths which emanate from the sun.

The distance between Vesta and Ceres is greater than the distance between the Earth and the sun.

By contrast, stars having a fraction of the mass of the Sun seem able to endure for trillions of years, which is much greater than the current age of the universe.

I doubt that even a temporary (as it might happen) depletion will impose a greater risk for UVB damage on population than spending a single session in the sun - tan studio.

Astronomers also measured how much of the Sun's light Makemake's surface reflects, the albedo, to be 0.77 which is similar to dirty snow and greater than Pluto's, but smaller than that of Eris.

Trans - Neptunian objects (TNOs) are minor objects that orbit the Sun at a distance greater than Neptune does at 30 AU.

After a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun in October 2014, its journey through space was tracked by Curiosity, Rosetta, Cassini, New Horizons and possibly even Voyager 2, allowing astronomers to study the phenomenon in much greater detail than ever before.

The distributions for the most massive galaxies, with stellar masses greater than the mass of 1000 billion suns, are shown in the right - hand panel.

Situated in the constellation of Pisces, SDSS J0104 1535 is made from gas that is around 250 times purer than the Sun, greater than 99.99 % hydrogen and helium.

The exoplanet 51 Eri b, whose mass is estimated to be roughly twice that of Jupiter, appears to orbit its host star at a distance 13 times greater than the Earth - Sun distance.