Sentences with phrase «like distant planets»

Tiny globe pendants, flickering like distant planets, hang from a double - height ceiling.

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In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Their first instinct was to run simulations involving a planet in a distant orbit that encircled the orbits of the six Kuiper Belt objects, acting like a giant lasso to wrangle them into their alignment.

Last summer, a team of astronomers tried three times to catch the tiny shadow of a distant world as it raced across our planet, like a tiny eclipse, at 60,000 mph.

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

Instead, like a parent maintaining the arc of a child on a swing with periodic pushes, Planet Nine nudges the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects such that their configuration with relation to the planet is presPlanet Nine nudges the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects such that their configuration with relation to the planet is presplanet is preserved.

«It's not fair to take the close - in planets and assume that the more distant planets are just like them,» says exoplanet astronomer Courtney Dressing of the University of California, Berkeley.

Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune — called ice giants — mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen state, researchers say.

Furthermore, chances are slim that Proxima b transits at all — to see the planet's shadow we would have to view its orbit essentially edge - on, like watching the rim of a spinning record on a light - years - distant turntable.

On the face of it, detecting a moon around a planet orbiting a distant star seems like a spectacularly difficult task, but with a bit of luck today's technology may be able to do it.

Finding another planet just like Earth orbiting some distant sun may not be quite as hard as it sounds.

Earlier this year, astronomers reported discovering a handful of Earth - like planets orbiting distant stars.

However, in a few billion years our sun will become a red giant, engulfing Mercury and Venus, turning Earth and Mars into sizzling rocky planets, and warming distant worlds like Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — and their moons — in a newly established red giant habitable zone.

The GMT aims to discover Earth - like planets around nearby stars and the tiny distortions that black holes cause in the light from distant stars and galaxies.

However, space research beyond Pluto carried on with exciting discoveries, including a Jupiter «twin» orbiting a sun - like planet in the distant universe.

One French researcher thinks these combined behaviors could influence things like the atmosphere, chemistry, and climate of some distant planets.

It's one of the tools JWST will use to capture sight of distant planets passing in front of stars, then analyze the data to be able to identify worlds where the signatures of life, like water and methane, are present.

Pluto may have recently been demoted to the status of dwarf planet, but as astronomers learn more about this distant body, they are learning it behaves more like a planet than once believed.

And as a nifty bonus, the telescope will be able to spot distant exoplanets in the heart of the Milky Way, and its second instrument will be able to gather data about their atmospheres, which can tell scientists whether a planet is more like Neptune or Jupiter, for instance.

With less than four weeks remaining before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds through the Pluto system for humanity's first - ever close - up reconnaissance of the distant planet and its assortage of moons, speculation runs rampant among scientists and the general public alike about what these mysterious worlds at the outer reaches of the Solar System might look like up close.

How long would a planet like Mars, orbiting a distant red dwarf star be habitable?

Future telescopes, like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), will be able to give researcher more information about distant planets.

On December 5, 2011, astronomers working on the Kepler Mission announced their first confirmation an extra-Solar, super-Earth-sized planet orbiting within the «habitable zone» of a distant Sun - like star (spectral class G5), which was discovered using Kepler.

Detection of Jupiter's twin orbiting a distant Sun - like star represents the closest replication of our own solar system to date, and may have profound implications for creating conditions favorable to the development of a habitable Earth - like planet in HIP 11915's inner solar system.

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If you liked Ben Hibon's short «The Trenches,» you're going to love his next two Sucker Punch animated shorts «Dragon» and «Distant Planet.»

Much like the beginning of Superman, there hero gets catapulted to Earth from a distant planet about to blow up.

The title Covenant, like Prometheus, comes from the name of the ship that is taking our characters to a distant planet Origae - 6.

Born on a distant planet, he's packed into a rocket ship and blasted off to Earth, just like the Man of Steel.

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It's like an old science - fiction painting of a distant planet.

Instead of focusing on big - picture goals like taking my first steps on distant planets, contracts have me duct - taping and kit - bashing single - use spacecraft to take a new landing gear to a certain height and speed, checking off a box to get paid.

In the world of online gaming a lot of players like engaging in lengthy campaigns with a fictional character, generally from some distant planet with a fascinating history, and most of the times an ev...

Inside the «Knee» were figures in bedazzled costumes in a piece by Raúl de Nieves and Erik Zajaceskowski, dancing like inhabitants of a distant country on another planet.

3) Planets that are like ours but that are more distant from the sun will have fewer cloud processes than ours (less power delivered, less to reject).

I tried five leading interior antennas, ranging from one that resembles a sheet of paper you stick to a wall to one that looks like it should be receiving signals from distant planets.