Sentences with phrase «millions of light years»

It's been a few hundred years now without an adequate explanation of why dinosaur fossils exist, or how we can see light from galaxies millions of light years away.

What if we could travel millions of light years in some direction away from earth..

Our galaxy is a huge disc of stars millions of light years across and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disc.

Their mutual gravity can draw galaxies together into a cluster that is several millions of light years across.

The entire science is based on calculations that use the speed of light and we know that objects are millions of light years away.

As a result, quasars are exceedingly rare on the sky, and are typically separated by hundreds of millions of light years from one another.

Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, typically containing several million to some trillion stars, of masses between several million and several trillion times that of our Sun, of an extension of a few thousands to several 100,000 s light years, typically separated by millions of light years distance.

Enormous black holes in galaxies millions of light years away are pelting us with energetic particles.

«It's therefore quite remarkable that the observation of a single binary neutron star merger that occurred millions of light years away combined with the universal relations discovered through our theoretical work have allowed us to solve a riddle that has seen so much speculation in the past.»

Galaxies which emit radio waves also have jets of gas, but these are more tenuous and much longer, extending millions of light years into space.

One of the best I ever heard was a Creationist, when challenged that the Earth must be older since we can see light from stars millions of light years away, answered that God created the light already on its way so that we'd see it.

Once you understand that you're seeing across thosands if not millions of light years... how magnificently HUGE the universe is, you'll understand how truly insignificant you are... and how pointless it is to get your panties in a wad over each and every tribulation in your life.

However, be warned: the movie is undermined by the thought that «why would highly advanced aliens travel millions of light years to play parlor tricks on a typical American family?»

The radio lobes can extend for millions of light years from the center of the galaxy.

This is made up largely of dark matter and is so massive that it bends light around itself and acts as a gravitational lens millions of light years in diameter.

After seeing it on my Instagram feed (especially the Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away by Yayoi Kusama), I have planned months in advanced and booked tickets to The Broad since I was in town for a wedding.

-- with their 16 ounces of grey matter, and relative nano - seconds of existence on this little planet circling a little red star in the corner of a galaxy containing billions of stars, separated by millions of light years from the next galaxy in a universe containing billions and billions of galaxies.

Enter one of these tunnels through space - time, and a few short steps later you may emerge near Pluto or even in the Andromeda galaxy millions of light years away.

In recent years, Margaret Geller and John Huchra of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have compiled three — dimensional maps of the Universe which show galaxies spread in thin sheets surrounding bubble - like voids hundreds of millions of light years across.

These particles are high - energy neutrinos: subatomic hints of apocalyptic events occurring millions of light years away.

Shown here for the first time, Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away encompasses a cube - shaped, mirror - paneled room that features a shallow reflecting pool as its floor.

a universe that is millions of light years in diameter, but with one puny little rock that can support life..

Considering the situation in which the developers found themselves, they put out an addition to the franchise that really feels like returning home even though you're millions of light years from Earth.

As children learn the simple Trigonometry with which to measure the millions of light years distance of stars, they think they have to chose between accepting math or Christianity.

They are measured by the variation in brightness to the time allowed between each change, This measures the distance to objects 10s of millions of light years across.

Through first - of - their - kind supercomputer simulations, researchers, including a Northwestern University professor, have gained new insight into one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astronomy: the behavior of relativistic jets that shoot from black holes, extending outward across millions of light years.

Harrison's model can explain features of the Universe that have stumped cos - mologists, such as huge chains of galaxies that stretch for hundreds of millions of light years.

«You are older than you think — or at least, some of the iron in your blood is older, formed in galaxies millions of light years away and billions of years ago,» Simionescu said.

Their results connect proto - stars resembling our Sun at the time of its birth, to accreting white dwarfs, to supermassive black holes with a billion times the mass of the Sun, located in galaxies millions of light years away.

These distant galaxies are hundreds of millions of light years away and their red shifts reflect almost entirely the expansion of the Universe.

On a much grander scale, astronomers have discovered enormous «weather systems» that are millions of light years in extent and older than the Solar System.

«This galaxy is millions of light years away, and each remnant can be as little as a few light years across.

The team employed a new technique they developed, which allows them to measure precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light years away.

You probably get the idea at this point, but just to hammer it home: On average, galaxies are separated by millions of light years — and the latest estimates put the number of galaxies in the universe at around 500 billion.

«This FRB, like others detected, is thought to originate from outside of Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, which means their signal has travelled over many hundreds of millions of light years, through a medium that — while invisible to our eyes — can be turbulent and affected by magnetic fields,» Ryan Shannon from Australia's ICRAR - Curtin University, the co-lead author of a study detailing the observation, said in a statement.

Dark matter constitutes the filaments — which researchers learned typically stretch and bend across hundreds of millions of light years — and the so - called halos that host clusters of galaxies are fed by the universal network of filaments.

In 1969, Lynden - Bell proposed that quasars are able to generate the vast quantities of energy that make them visible thousands of millions of light years away thanks to thepresence of black holes at their centers.

«This FRB, like others detected, is thought to originate from outside of Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, which means their signal has travelled over many hundreds of millions of light years, through a medium that — while invisible to our eyes — can be turbulent and affected by magnetic fields,» Dr Shannon said.

The SKA is sensitive enough to be able to detect the equivalent of an airport radar on a planet that is millions of light years away.

Dean Devlin, co-writer of the original movie, told The Portland Business Journal that the new trilogy will be millions of light years away from the original.

Their most popular exhibit, Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013 by Yayoi Kusama, has been a particularly favored exhibit amongst the visitors.

Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away will still be open to any visitor with a free general admission ticket until the paid Kusama paid special exhibition begins.

Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away is an immersive environment that fosters an out - of - body experience, heightens one's senses, and produces a repetitive illusion through the use of lights and mirrors.

Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, born 1929), Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, wood, metal, mirrors, plastic, acrylic, rubber, LEDs, and water.

Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away encompassed a cube - shaped, mirror - paneled room that featured a shallow reflecting pool as its floor; hundreds of multicolored LED lights were suspended at varying heights from the ceiling, flickering on and off in a strobelike effect.

The artist's more recent LED environments, filled with lanterns or crystalline balls that seem to extend infinitely, will be represented in «Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity» (2009) and «Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away» (2013).