Sentences with phrase «much sun light»

To explain in Norway where we lived, because of the mountains, we would not get much sun light at all in the winter season.

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The light - coated streets, on the other hand, reflect much more of the sun's rays and are an average of 10 to 15 degrees F cooler than regular asphalt streets.

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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.

bathed in a glorious light that seemed like much more than just the sun's illumination; the white clouds sculpted against blue skies, stacked like majestic monuments to the Almighty's unfathomable glory....

Picnic spots, grassy knolls, and sun light streaming in like so much melted butter on open farmer fruit and vegetable stalls and outdoor cafes, are just some of the main attractions.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

Hydroponics outdoors will be much the same as in a greenhouse except that the sun is substituted for grow lights, the relative humidity (RH) percentage and temperature control will depend upon climate, and algae control will become much more difficult.

There is so much to love about this Spinach Quinoa Salad (with sun - dried tomatoes and almonds all tossed in a light pesto vinaigrette)!

For example, you want as much natural light as possible during the day, so open the curtains and welcome in the sun.

A very basic test of how sun safe a garment is, is to hold it up to the light, and see how much, if any, gets through; the more light generally indicates more UV will be getting through to the skin.

Much to my disappointed the sun went away by the time I finished and I got poor lighting.

While it's important not to get too much sun and to consistently wear sunscreen, spending a few minutes a day in the rays exposes your skin to more UV light, which makes it produce more vitamin D. «Vitamin D deficiency is very common during pregnancy and has been linked to a higher risk of gestational diabetes, preeclampsia and bacterial vaginosis,» says Swinney.

Much of that scattered debris ended up even farther out, about a light - year from the sun in a spherical shell of comets called the Oort Cloud.

The Sun is close to being a «black body» — that is, the light it emits is very much like that from a hypothetical black surface that absorbs all the radiation falling on it.

Letian Dou, a chemical engineer at Purdue University, and colleagues were only able to form these light - harvesting crystals in their solar cells by cranking the heat to 105 ° Celsius, much hotter than your average sun - blasted window.

The massive star Sirius, for example, is just over twice as far away as Alpha Centauri — but because it shines some 25 times brighter than our sun, it offers a stronger radiation - pressure braking effect, allowing light sails to approach at much higher speeds.

A starshade is a sunflower - shaped, paper - thin screen half as big as a football field that would float tens of thousands of kilometers directly ahead of WFIRST, blocking out a target star's light in much the same way one might blot out the sun in the sky with an extended thumb.

Roses from the Netherlands required artificial light, heat and cooling over the eight - to 12 - week growing cycle, whereas Africa's strong sun provided much of what was needed.

This quasar is only slightly smaller than the previous distance record - holder, which weighs as much as 2 billion suns and whose light is 12.9 billion years old, emitted when the universe was just 770 million years old (SN: 7/30/11, p. 12).

This powerful kilonova blast emits as much visible and near - infrared light every second as the Sun does every few years.

Total solar eclipses occur when the dark silhouette of the moon completely obscures the bright light of the sun, allowing the much fainter solar corona to be visible.

As part of its Frontier Fields program, Hubble observed a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1 - 2403, located roughly 4 billion light - years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns.

[1] Stars with more mass run through their lives much more quickly than lighter ones such as the Sun, which have lives measured in billions, rather than millions, of years.

They would emit light that is much, much hotter than, say, light coming from the stars or sun, because their temperature is many orders of magnitude greater.

TRAPPIST - 1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star that is slightly larger, but much more massive, than the planet Jupiter, located about 40 light - years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius.

Blue light from the sun is scattered every which way, much more so than the other colors, so when you look up at the daytime sky you see blue no matter where you look.

Thus, when there is a lot of blue light (as when the sun is overhead), this particular photoreceptor prompts the suprachiasmatic nucleus to tell the pineal gland not to make much melatonin, and so we stay awake.

If so, instead of clumping, the researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science, this warm dark matter would have stretched into filaments thousands of light - years long and weighing as much as millions of suns.

But because the coronagraphs have to block out an area slightly larger than the sun itself in order to prevent too much light from leaking in, there is a ring of space around the sun that neither set of instruments looks at.

«There is nearly as much energy in the far - red and near - infrared light that reaches Earth from the Sun as there is in visible light,» said Bryant.

It was Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity and motion that, 100 years later, led Reverend John Michell, a British polymath, to the conclusion that if there were a star much more massive or much more compressed than the sun, its escape velocity could surpass even the speed of light.

However, just as the sun can damage skin cells, too much light exposure can damage or even kill biological samples like embryos.

As a result, the quasar emits 60 trillion times as much light as the sun, an international team reports in the June 30 Nature.

If that's right, all five planets lie closer to their star than Mars does to ours; however, Tau Ceti emits only 45 % as much light as the sun, so each planet receives less warmth than a planet would at the same distance from our sun.

«If you take a lens that has that much power and point it directly at the sun, the energy becomes very high,» and is enough to literally burn holes in the retina, or the light - sensitive cells at the back of the eye, Van Gelder said.

Because Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our sun (distance, 4.2 light - years), its angular motion across the sky is relatively fast compared to much more distant background stars.

Its light spectrum suggests it has just 10 per cent as much iron as the previous record holder, and only 1 per cent as much as the sun.

In March of 2013, Luhman's analysis of the images from WISE uncovered a pair of much warmer brown dwarfs at a distance of 6.5 light years, making that system the third closest to the Sun.

Much of the water Mars once held was lost over time due to ultraviolet light from the Sun breaking apart water molecules.

However, a flare the size of a solar flare occurring on a red dwarf star (such as Groombridge 34 A or B) that is more than ten thousand times dimmer than our Sun would emit about as much or more light as the red dwarf itself, doubling its brightness or more.

With a visual luminosity that has reportedly varied between 0.000053 and 0.00012 of Sol's (based on a distance of 4.22 light - years) the star is as much as 19,000 times fainter than the Sun, and so if it was placed at the location of our Sun from Earth, the disk of the star would barely be visible.

However, a flare the size of a solar flare occurring on a red dwarf star (such as Proxima Centauri) that is more than ten thousand times dimmer than our Sun would emit about as much or more light as the red dwarf does normally.

However, a flare the size of a solar flare occurring on a red dwarf star (CM Draconis) that is more than ten thousand times dimmer than our Sun would emit about as much or more light as the red dwarf does normally.

They need the sun's energy to carry out photosynthesis, but too much light damages the chloroplasts in plant cells where light, water, and carbon dioxide are converted into sugar and oxygen.

Astronomers also measured how much of the Sun's light Makemake's surface reflects, the albedo, to be 0.77 which is similar to dirty snow and greater than Pluto's, but smaller than that of Eris.

Similarly, chloroplasts in a regular leaf can not absorb much of the sun's light.

Much of the infrared light from the sun is too low in energy to be absorbed by traditional solar cells.

Some astronomers suggest that Mercury lost much of its lighter rocks to the Sun in early catastrophic impacts.

With a diameter larger than Earth's orbit around the Sun, it radiates as much as more than 10 million times more light than Sol (L = 10 ^ 6.3) and appears to have more than 150 Solar - masses, having been resolved as a single star down to a projected separation of 110 AUs (Figer et al, 1998).