Sentences with phrase «millions of degrees as»

The engine behind a quasar's efficient brilliance is a monster black hole, as massive as a billion or more suns, which consumes gas so voraciously that the stuff heats to millions of degrees as it falls in.

But a feeding black hole is surrounded by a whirling, white - hot disk of glowing debris — material heated to millions of degrees as it spirals down to oblivion.

Not exact matches

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

In short, each star's extremely powerful winds of particles are colliding and heating up to roughly 50 million degrees, creating two lopsided «fans» of material that ultimately shape the innards of the dumbbell - like nebula, as this NASA simulation suggests:

Although this will be much easier if you have one of the highest paying college degrees as opposed to one of the worst paying college degrees, it is absolutely, mathematically, irrefutably possible for you to amass millions of dollars by the time you retire if you, like most college graduates, are in your early to mid-twenties and live a normal life expectancy.

Tertiary Degree Graduates Aged 25 - 34 (in millions) Tertiary Degrees By Percentage of OECD And G20 Total * OECD estimate based on the same average annual growth rate as that observed between 2000 and 2009 + Germany and...

As for those you referened as being more believeable than God, I will wait for their analysis of what it means to have multi million degree braided magnetic loops on the sun, and all the applied voltages... oh what does that mean anyway... I wonder... what comes nexAs for those you referened as being more believeable than God, I will wait for their analysis of what it means to have multi million degree braided magnetic loops on the sun, and all the applied voltages... oh what does that mean anyway... I wonder... what comes nexas being more believeable than God, I will wait for their analysis of what it means to have multi million degree braided magnetic loops on the sun, and all the applied voltages... oh what does that mean anyway... I wonder... what comes next.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

She has stated several times that she wants to go to Stanford — Tiger's alma mater — but as it becomes more obvious that many millions of dollars await her if she turns pro and especially if she begins competing in men's tournaments, it doesn't take a bachelor's degree to figure out that skipping college might be the smarter move.

Like other people, I had thought that his Master's degree in Economics and extensive public service experience could not have sufficientlyprepared him for a reign over 3 million people — a kingdom which isalmost the size of Kuwait, although not as endowed, but as demographically diverse Kuwait.

The Sun's visible surface is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but as you move outward the temperature shoots up to millions of degrees.

As an example of the use of the model, the core of the plasma inside the seven - story ITER tokamak, the international fusion experiment under construction in France, will have to be more than 10 times hotter than the core of the sun, whose temperature is 15 million degrees Celsius.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

The rocks had to be 50 million years old, as that is the age of the primates they study, and the land had to be sloped by at least 5 degrees, so erosion was likely to have exposed fossils.

Under laboratory conditions it is the two hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — that fuse most readily when held as a plasma at temperatures of several hundred million degrees.

The explosions would kill as many as 21 million people directly, and smoke from such a conflagration would dim the sun for 10 years or more, reducing rainfall and cooling the entire globe more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Brian Toon of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Alan Robock of Rutgers University.

Suppose, as a thought experiment, one had a thermometer that could measure temperatures of millions of degrees and placed it in the corona.

Up to a trillion high - energy photons, moving in unison, sweep through the matter, heating it to more than one million degrees Celsius — hot as the solar corona — in less than a trillionth of a second.

They argue that there is something wrong with a world in which carbon - dioxide levels are kept to 450 parts per million (a trajectory widely deemed compatible with a 2 degree cap on warming) but at the same time more than a billion of the poorest people are left without electricity, as in one much discussed scenario from the International Energy Agency.

At Guernsey, we were looking at two types of iron, each of which glows at a temperature of more than a million degrees, as well as helium, which is cooler.

Then, they'll fire beams of heavy ions such as uranium at the container until the water within is sweltering under temperatures thousands of degrees Kelvin and pressures of several million atmospheres.

The 1 - million target doesn't distinguish between associate and bachelor's degrees, for example, nor does it mean that every student will become part of what is generally defined as the nation's scientific workforce — as a faculty member, for example, or working in a corporate research lab or federal research facility.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

The space agency says the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is designing the craft, dubbed Solar Probe + (Solar Probe Plus), which will wield a carbon - composite heat shield to survive the intense 2,550 - degree Fahrenheit (1,400 - degree Celsius) temperatures and radiation that will blast it as it passes within 4.5 million miles (7.2 million kilometers) of the sun.

With massive electromagnets attached to the exterior of the plasma chamber, his team can lead the hydrogen gas plasma as easily as a pup on a leash, harnessing 1 million degrees of energy to a single unalterable goal: powering a spacecraft to Mars and beyond.

As the gravitational energy of the material is released, the innermost part of the disk is heated up to a temperature higher than 10 million degrees, which causes it to emit strong X-rays.

Jolted by the 40 - million mile per hour sledgehammer blow, one knot of gas — 100 billion miles in diameter in a piece of the ring — has already begun to glow brightly, as its temperature surges from a few thousand degrees to a million degrees Fahrenheit.

But this also means that targets such as stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 at 450 parts per million (nearly double preindustrial levels) to avoid more than a 3.6 degree F (2 degree C) temperature rise are nearly impossible as well.

Our results are consistent with considerable body size variation and, probably, degree of sexual dimorphism within a single species of bipedal hominins as early as 3.66 million years ago.

The NSTX - U routinely conducts experiments at or above the 15 million degree Celsius core of the sun as it investigates fusion reactions as the energy for generating electricity.

Researchers think these bubbles drag trails of relatively cooler gas (about 1 million degrees), and as the bubbles detach from the jets and drift farther out into the galaxy, the cooler gas trails become even cooler, becoming extremely cold (just slight above absolute zero), and rain back on the black hole as fuel for star formation.

«We have witnessed extraordinary weather, including temperatures topping 50 degrees Celsius in Asia, record - breaking hurricanes in rapid succession in the Caribbean and Atlantic reaching as far as Ireland, devastating monsoon flooding affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East Africa.

«If you heated up a pot of water, no matter how hot, even if you vaporized it at a million degrees, it would still not be as hot as the electrons in the laser.»

Colored according to x-ray energy intensity, this supernova remnant's bluish shockwave bubble is twice as hot as the mottled gaseous debris expanding behind at 10 million degrees Celsius (more at Astronomy Picture of the Day and CXC).

For instance, the center of the ultrahot plasma contained within the walls of doughnut - shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks can reach temperatures well above the 15 million degrees Celsius core of the sun.

But a big payoff requires an equally large investment, and for decades we have wrestled with the problem of energizing and holding on to the hydrogen fuel as it reaches temperatures in excess of 150 million degrees Fahrenheit.

«A Moon-less Earth with the same mass, rotation rate, and orbit as today would have the direction of its spin axis vary chaotically between 0 and 90 degrees on time scales as short as 10 million years,» says Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Penn State University and NAI member.

They also contain gluten, which as many as 18 million Americans may have some degree of intolerance to, as well as «anti-nutrients» — natural compounds in grains that may harm the gut and prevent the absorption of vitamins and minerals.

Even when a recent graduate has trouble landing a good job right after collecting his degrees, he can expect to earn as much as a million dollars more over the course of his career than someone whose education ended with a high school diploma.

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Von Hayek's take was that it's difficult, and in many cases futile, for policymakers to operate as engineers because they simply don't have the degree of control or as much information as they need to design effective solutions — in the case of K — 12 schooling in the United States, solutions that are going to work for 50 million kids scattered across 90,000 schools.

Northwest Vista is part of a $ 14 million pilot program through the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to promote statistics as an alternative degree requirement.

Problem is, the traditional high school measures of college readiness are crude, as seen by the shockingly high number of incoming college freshmen who require remedial coursework before they are even allowed to take for - credit courses — a fault that leads to millions of degree - earning failures.

As of the day I write this, there are still 6.5 million people in Florida and Georgia facing 80 - to 90 - degree temperatures without power.

Enjoy more than two million pounds of hand - carved colorful ice sculptures kept at a chilly 9 degrees as you celebrate cultural holiday traditions from around the world from November until January.

Their current position in the industry allows them a greater degree of security and creativity than they'd experience as a first party, allowing them to bring their stable of classic franchises to millions of gamers across a ton of platforms.

But, given the failure of decades of pledges and agreements aimed at curbing emissions, I suggested it was time to move away from a longstanding focus on numerical goals — such as 350 (parts per million of CO2), 80 percent (in emissions cuts) by 2050, a 2 - degree limit on warming — and toward the goal of maximizing the suite of traits I described in those eight words.

The safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is no more than 350 parts per million, if we want the diversity of other species on the planet to survive — as well as «amenities» that humans require, such as fresh water supplies, stable coastlines and a normal degree of extreme weather events.

Anyway, as I said, you are all so brainwashed by these AGWSF sleights of hand that you actually believe that our blazing hot Star the Sun millions of degrees C hot, doesn't give off any heat!

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»