Sentences with phrase «hurtling away»

Astronomers have just clocked one hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers (2.7 million miles) per hour.

Three scientific spacecraft hurtling away from the Earth on separate missions are being used as a gigantic detector that spans a large part of the Solar System.

One such star is hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers per hour, researchers report in the March 6 Science, making it the fastest - moving star to be ejected from our galaxy.

Not exact matches

The US and China are now locked in a global game of chicken, hurtling towards each other at high speed, each daring the other not to veer away.

The horses hurtle as one around the last turn and into the stretch, with Woolf finally asking The Biscuit for all he has left and then turning to yell at Kurtsinger as he pulls away, «So long, Charley!»

As usual I was out of my seat hurtling a tirade of abuse at Wenger and Bould for just sitting there letting the game drift away without any input and getting strange looks from the tourists around me, funny place that Emirates stadium, so corporate and touristy, I just don't if I take anymore.

5 million mph The approximate speed at which scientists observed a supermassive black hole, roughly 8 billion light - years away from Earth, hurtling through space.

Blue colors show regions where the stars are hurtling toward the observer on Earth, and red colors show regions that are moving away, in an overall pattern of coherent rotation.

In 1989, when Voyager 2 hurtled through the far reaches of our solar system passing the planet Neptune, a live feed from JPL opened a window onto an exotic world nearly 3 billion miles away.

On August 31, 1984, Anchee Min hurtled through the night into the unknown, flying alone away from the familiarity of...

Bracing herself for sudden impact, she feels the bone - jarring shock of metal against flesh, and is suddenly hurtling backward off her feet, landing some three feet away from the car's right front wheel.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

She would not let herself imagine anything untoward, she would not visualize the gondola rising upward until it burst into flames or hurtling down until it smashed into pieces on the ground or floating away over the rooftops like Gambetta in 1871.

The pair's final collaboration (van Bruggen passed away in January) in their Large - Scale Projects series, Tumbling Tacks, was recently installed on a hillside, hurtling towards the Kistefos Museum, near Oslo, Norway.

The human race continues to hurtle toward total disaster on countless fronts, but, unfortunately, for many the shiny distractions of industrialized and militarized society are still too alluring to turn away from.

At the Windmark Beach community, St. Joe went through massive regulatory hurtles to reroute U.S. Highway 98 away from the beach and around the community.