Sentences with phrase «millions of miles per»

This mass of plasma travels at millions of miles per hour and, upon colliding with a planet's magnetic field, can trigger a geomagnetic storm, during which particles trapped in a planet's atmosphere are released.

A wind of fragmented atoms blows off it at millions of miles per hour.

«We see some gas outflowing from this galaxy at millions of miles per hour, and this gas may have been blown away by the powerful radiation from the newly formed stars,» said Ryan Hickox, an astrophysicist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and a co-author on the study.

The blue cloud and the white central dot consist of 60 - million - degree gas shooting outward, perpendicular to the lobes, at millions of miles per hour.

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The booster pushes the top of the rocket (including the payload) about 40 miles into the sky, then detaches, lands back on the surface, and gets refurbished — a clever method that saves the company millions per mission.

Based on Trump's 2017 budget request for $ 2.6 billion to plan, design and build 75 miles of wall, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill's office estimated the per - mile cost would be about $ 37 million, or nearly $ 67 billion for the entire 2,000 - mile border.

Some estimates have placed the cost of a single Hyperloop rail somewhere in the range of $ 120 million per mile.

States like California and New York have high average densities of 251 and 420 people per square mile because of the millions of people crammed into major cities.

Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens of millions of dollars per mile.

TD put up $ 100 million to steal away Aeroplan, off ering a 15 % higher fee per reward mile than CIBC currently pays when customers use one of its Aeroplan - branded credit cards.

If Tesla goes ahead with its Tesla Mobility ride sharing business, the amount of data could rise to 400 million miles per day by 2025 or 2030.

Tesla currently pulls about 5 million miles of road data per day, and Jonas thinks that could double over the next 15 months.

One of the competing firms, Hyperloop Technologies, estimates the price of a track to run up to a mind - numbing $ 20 million per mile.

It's about $ 20 million per mile to build HTT's version of the Hyperloop, according to Ahlborn — a fraction of the current cost of building high - speed rail in the U.S.

Because there are approximately 200 million of them globally and they emit more pollution per mile than a car (~ 10x more in fact).

Their reaction is created by colliding two plasma balls made of hydrogen atom cores at one million miles per hour.

The 856 - mile pipeline can transport 20 million cubic meters of gas per day.

Such subtleties, and I don't think it is very subtle, are easily overlooked when your brain is going a million miles per hour trying to rationalize the bigger problems of religion in general.

According to Jeans its diameter is about 200,000 light - years and it takes 3 million years to complete a single revolution, at a peripheral speed of several hundred miles per second.

$ 20 million per year on aged reliever with a decent amount of miles... Pass.

With 390 miles of underground caves to explore, the park attracts about 2 million visitors per year.

The request is to replace all 550 miles at the industry rate of $ 1.32 million per mile.

By then the shuttle was already traveling about 1,000 miles per hour and had burned through more than a million and a half pounds of fuel.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

At stake is a share of $ 10 million, to go to the best - performing cars to maintain at least 100 miles per US gallon (42.5 kilometres per litre)...

How do solar wind particles accelerate to a speed of 1 million miles per hour?

The explosion spewed elements like silicon and iron into space at speeds of more than 11 million miles per hour (5,000 km / s).

The first optical storage techniques — which would later create the compact disc — were developed in 1965, but data transfer was still agonizingly slow: Mariner 4 radioed these pictures over 134 million miles with a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter at the rate of 81/3 bits per second.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

The bubble in question is actually a field of magnetic plasma, and the bigger this field gets, the faster it will travel, powered by solar winds made of particles hurtling from the sun at a million miles per hour.

$ 1.35 million Name: Green Flight Challenge Goal: Build an aircraft that can fly 200 miles on a gallon of gasoline per passenger.

A squall of subatomic particles, including electrons and protons, raced out at 5 million miles per hour and slammed into our magnetic field, which deflected most of the blow.

Occasionally, the sun releases huge clouds of particles and magnetic fields that explode out from the sun at more than a million miles per hour.

A January launch allows the ship to sail within 1.4 million miles of Jupiter in early 2007, where it will receive a gravitational boost that increases its velocity to 13 miles per second.

When complete, the 410 - mile - long reservoir will generate 84.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year, the energy equivalent of 50 million tons of coal.

Spending a few hours per star, TPF will be able to find every Earth - size or larger planet within habitable distance of its sun — 50 million to 200 million miles for an average - size star — for each of the nearest few hundred stars.

The United States now tracks more than 10,000 pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Program.

This material then settles into a disk around the companion, and serves as the launching pad for blobs of plasma, which travel at roughly a half - million miles per hour.

A fleet of 100 cars would have to drive 275 million miles without failure — approximately 12.5 years of round - the - clock driving at 25 miles per hour — to meet the safety standards of today's vehicles in terms of deaths.

With the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomer Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University calculated that for every increase in distance of 3.2 million light - years, objects are receding at an additional 166,000 miles per hour.

It also is hoped the probe will help astrophysicists find out why there's no organized solar wind (made up mostly ions and electrons) found in the vicinity of the sun's surface, even though it whips through the solar system at speeds ranging from about 670,000 to 1.8 million miles (1.1 million to 2.9 million kilometers) per hour.

And Clean Air Transport in Sweden recently won a $ 7 million subsidy from the City of Los Angeles to start selling its $ 25,000, 75 - mile - per - hour electric sedan next year.

Current studies say the expansion rate is around 14 miles per second for each million light - years of distance.

One cool detail: Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and our sister galaxy, Andromeda, move at 1.4 million miles per hour relative to the ubiquitous background energy left over from the Big Bang, a standard frame of reference for astronomers.

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.

CMEs are powerful enough to send billions of tons of solar particles screaming toward Earth at more than 1 million miles per hour, said CU Boulder Professor Delores Knipp of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

THE solar wind is a hurricane of charged particles that blows from the Sun's outer atmosphere into deep space at a million miles per hour.

The solar wind consists of a constant stream of energetic particles — mainly electrons and protons — that are propelled from the Sun's atmosphere at around a million miles per hour.