Sentences with phrase «known planets across»

The front plate had a circular dial with pointers tracking the movement of the sun, moon and five known planets across the sky during the calendar year.

Not exact matches

They can no longer ignore the fact that, across three quarters of our planet, the dominant religion is not Christianity.

Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

Although much research has focused on understanding how animals guide their migrations across large regions of the planet, we know very little about this phenomenon, particularly for large, difficult - to - track species.

Yet, in concert, they build galaxies, planets, humans, birds and who knows what else across the cosmos [see illustrations above].

The only truly Earth - like planet we know of — ours — takes more than 150 times as long as HAT - P - 7 b does to circle its star, so collecting data on similar planets across multiple orbits will take years.

An asteroid a few metres across passed 150 000 kilometres from the Earth on 20 May, the closest any asteroid has ever been known to come to our planet, says Dan Green of the Harvard Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics.

The Kepler 11 system is unique for several reasons: For starters, it is among the largest collections of worlds known outside our own solar system, and all six of the planets Kepler has found there are aligned so that their orbits carry them across the face of their host star from Kepler's vantage point.

This would make them smaller than the planet's 27 known moons, which are as small as eight - 10 miles across.

Other newly translated excerpts included descriptions of a calendar unique to the northern Greek city of Corinth and tiny orbs — now believed lost to the sandy sea bottom — that once moved across the instrument's face in perfect simulation of the true motion of the five known planets, as well as a mark on the dial that gave the dates of various athletic events, including a relatively minor competition that was held in the city of Rhodes.

It speaks to the vastness of space — and how little we know about it — that a regular Jane or Joe can essentially come across a planet in a neighboring solar system.

But along the way he's also come across hundreds of lesser - known visionaries and companies making big, sustainable changes, not because they are in the public eye or feel like they have to but because they are passionate about protecting our planet.

Since this post the other day and subsequent exchanging of some emails and comments here & there with those I'd generally consider advocates of very low carb dieting — to include those advocating near perpetual states of ketosis — I've been met with surprise bordering on disbelief that indeed no, the Inuit are no more a «ketogenic society» than anyone else across the planet Earth.

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If you've never read Ernest Cline's book, Ready Player One is set in a world where millions across the planet interact in a virtual space known as Oasis, in which you can be anything you want to be.

After receiving a powerful ring from a dying alien, Jordan is whisked across space to the planet Oa, to learn he has been chosen, like it or not, to become a member of an intergalactic peacekeeping force overseen by a parliament of blue yodas known as the Guardians of the Universe.

As the 8.50 am bell rang out across the sunny playground on this leafy site in the heart of Rugby, children lined up ready for the arrival of the Grand High Witch, «the leader of all witches on planet Earth», otherwise known as Mrs Hims, Executive Headteacher of the Warwickshire Cluster.

It's one of the hottest hatchbacks on the market, and it's well - known across all of the major markets on the planet.

Whilst Bungie aren't particularly well known for mixing it up too much though I was hoping since we were going to a new planet we would come across a new species.

Our conversation ranged across Twine, Inform, and Choice of Games, how to develop games without knowing how to program, the difference between «game design» and «game development», and the upcoming Global Game Jam (Jan 29 — 31, on a planet near you!)

The bottom line, in my humble opinion, is no matter what is happening to our climate and why, we, the homo sapiens have to change our profligate ways across the board if this beautiful planet stands half a chance at surviving with its immense and necessary biodiversity in tact.

And the question can be asked of those who live in cities; maybe you can't see much in the nighttime sky, but did you know the problem was so prevalent across the planet?

«uncertainty» equals no consensus but consensus is not proof this is just one classic example of just more humans trying to justify their existence and no the IPCC Judith Curry and everyone else involved continue dancing on the head of a pin whilst Mr Ordinary gets his wealth sequestrated in order to pay for these guys to indulge in their pet hobby when the person who is making their life possible derives no benefit whatsoever except higher and higher energy bills, more restrictions on their ability to travel whilst again the lauded few get to travel across the planet 1st class to tout their jaded theories of how what and where and all I hope and pray is that we get another five years of flat temperatures then you are all toast and in a great need of having to work for a living or get another hobby.

We know this is true because, unfortunately, more than a billion people across the planet are living that existence right now, with little or no opportunity to hope for anything better — largely because they lack access to energy.

There were a few abnormally harsh winters across the northern hemisphere, when the climate scientists had forecast unusually mild ones, «barbeque summers» that never materialized and suddenly even the global network of thermometers no longer supported the idea of continued warming — the planet had stopped warming.

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