Sentences with phrase «longer than our planet»

These dancing ribbons of light are about 1,000 times as powerful as Earth's and are longer than our planet is wide.

By tracking the frequency at which certain starspots reappeared, Sanchis - Ojeda determined that the star completes a full rotation every 12.5 days — considerably longer than the planet's orbital period of 8.5 hours.

They also are longer than our planet is wide.

However, its rotation is very slow with 243 Earth days in a single «Venus day,» which is slightly longer than the planet's year, and retrograde when compared with Earth's so that the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east.

Not exact matches

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

They don't, perhaps, because so many miss the point that they would rather become the complacent that surrounded Noah and assume that so long as there are rainbows we are safe, rather than act for the future to protect what is most precious on this planet, our current Garden of Eden.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

No matter what organization he belongs to, there is no one who feeds more hungry, houses more poor, treats more sick, educates more children than the Catholic church and we've been doing it longer than any one else on the planet.

the crazies are breeding faster than common sense — education is failing to teach realities (due to the religious right cuts)-- it won't be long before we blow this planet up — hehe

Humans have such an incredible ego that they think that even the bad things they do as a group are more massive than anything even a PLANET (with a rather long and remarkably unexpected history) could handle.

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

If we were to be upon an outter planet say Saturn, our days would be a whole bunch longer than just 24 hours and a year on Saturn would equate to X number of years upon this earth!

Abiding to an organic protocol to run a vineyard and make wine is timely, and in many cases more costly, than running a «chemically sustained» vineyard, but in the long term the earth is stronger, the vine is healthier and the wine it produces is better for you and the planet.

Just have a look at LVG, He had Angel Di Maria in the squad but couldn't find a place for him as he'd rather hoof long balls and crosses to Fellaini than take a few risks and utilize one of the most dangerous players on the planet.

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!

Were YOU.I believe on your PLANET NUTCASE you still believe we have Herbert Chapman as the Manager.No mate this is wrong.Hes been dead for a while now and at the moment we have an aging Frenchman who is paid more per season than most people will earn in several lifetimes.He is taking this Club backwards.We are falling behind Clubs who we used to dominate as rivals.He has the majority of the fan base against him and his tired and outdated methods.We now ger beaten away from home by all the clubs facing relegation.We are no longer in the Champions League.We have a 60,000 seater stadium that is now embarrassingly full of empty seats.This is all down to Wenger.

The nightmarish spectre of Antonio Conte's hauntingly terrifying face leering into the camera for an interview where He visibly battles with his urge to discuss the upcoming Champions League match with Barcelona rather than the humiliation of a Hull side without endangering any of his important players, was enough to prompt Mark to gaze heavenward, longing for the rumoured «Planet X» to finally roam into our orbit and take out earth in an apocalyptic planetary collision which the FA Cup would likely somehow survive.

Sure, it takes a little more effort to be super-green, but if you feel guilty about tossing out bags and bags of garbage and driving a gas - guzzling SUV, maybe you should change your life - style to soothe that guilt rather than convince yourself that it is OK to continue to pollute and trash the planet as long as you use energy efficient bulbs.

Lighter - toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica — called «halos» — has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed.

The planets circle a tiny, dim, nearby star in tight orbits all less than 2 weeks long.

More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists that includes a NASA researcher has proven that air pollution from industrial activities arrived to the planet's southern pole long before any human.

«Clearing out the debris [from planet formation] may take longer than we thought.»

However, a new study of the atmosphere suggests that clouds may have kept the planet cool enough to preserve the Venusian sea for billions of years — far longer than previously thought.

An infrared telescope has revealed fresh clouds of dust from gigantic smashups between rocky bodies, signs that planet - building and destruction take longer and are more violent than astronomers had assumed.

Less than two years later, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer lonely enough (technically, its orbit wasn't empty enough) to be called a proper planet.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

The surprise was that the light coming from it pulsed in brightness by a factor of 10 every 7.3 hours, suggesting both that it is spinning rapidly and is 10 times longer than it is wide — more elongated than anything known among our planets.

The jagged and intricate coastline of Greenland, with its thousands of fjords, islands and skerries, measures longer than the circumference of the planet.

A FAULT on NASA's Kepler spacecraft means it may take a little longer than we had hoped to find an Earth - like planet.

At a NASA press conference today that also unveiled more than 500 other new candidate planets, Kepler's mission scientists announced they have finally found and confirmed what looks to be the mission's long - sought holy grail, a near - twin of Earth called Kepler 452 b.

But after having some of their preconceptions shattered by the discovery of Jupiter - size planets orbiting their stars in less than two days, planet hunters are no longer so confident of the others.

Instead, Spitzer was showing that disks, and perhaps subsequent rounds of planet building, could go on far longer than even the old core - accretion models implied.

Under K2, Kepler won't stare at the same patch of sky for as long, so it will be restricted to hunting for planets that orbit their stars much more closely than Earth does the sun.

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.

This distance is three times longer than the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.

Less massive than stars but more massive than planets, brown dwarfs were long assumed to be rare.

Astronomers kept finding more objects between Jupiter and Mars, though, all of them much smaller than Vesta and Ceres, and by the 1850s «planet» no longer seemed a reasonable term for all of them.

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.

Mercury's bleak, airless surface is similar to the moon's, so scientists have long been puzzled why the planet reflects so much less light than our lunar satellite.

The co-authors suggest that future studies looking to find and study possibly habitable planets around short - term binary stars should focus on those with longer orbital periods than about 7.5 days.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

This understanding of the long - term power of wind can be applied to Earth as well, although there are more variables on our home planet than Mars, Anderson said.

Planet Earth was blue long before we knew Earth may have become a watery world just 200 million years after it formed, making it a potential home for life hundreds of million years earlier than thought.

Deep trenches, unexplored surfaces and a long, treacherous journey: Sounds like a voyage to Mars, but it also describes the trip to the bottoms of Earth's own oceans, about which we know even less than the Red Planet.

«Once planets form, they can survive for long periods of time, even longer than the current age of the universe,» explains DiStefano.

POLAR bears have patrolled the planet's icy regions for millions of years longer than previously thought — riding out several episodes of global warming in that time.

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.

Curiosity has now embarked on a long trek to the base of Mount Sharp, a mysterious mountain that rises more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) into the Red Planet sky.

Julie's probably going to throw something at me for saying this, but microbes have been doing chemistry on this planet for a lot longer than humans have, and I would submit that they're the master chemists of this planet.

Cassini tracked changes in Saturn's atmosphere as its seasons progressed — a feat that could only be achieved by putting a long - duration probe in orbit about the planet for more than a decade.