Sentences with phrase «of brighter planet»

Patti Prairie, an entrepreneur and chief executive officer of Brighter Planet, said DVD's with the winning videos would be sent to all members of Congress and the next president, but the organizers» hope was that they will reverberate around the Web, as well.

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The brightest minds on the planet have come together at the Future of Humanity at Oxford to help map out the rise of our mechanical mates.
«These are some of the best and brightest on the planet,» Brah says.
We are committed to a cleaner planet, stronger community and brighter future for families through food science innovation, state - of - the - art manufacturing and technology, animal well - being and sustainable farming.
I got no problems with atheist, I went to school with some of the brightest minds on the planet who where atheist and they treated me better than some of my so called christian friends.
Hawking is indeed one of the brightest minds on the planet in mathematics, but i doubt he could even handle an advice column in a newspaper.
Maybe you meant the opposite and were talking about humans: those humans who aren't so bright tend to reproduce more because their God told them to or because they won't use birth control and now they are overpopulating the planet leading to a loss of natural resources and the ultimate demise of the species due to ignorance.
The point is not that globalization is without its problems, but rather that even with all these problems it remains arguably the brightest hope on earth for the half of the planet that still lacks genuine opportunity.
I just realized that an eternal being creating the universe in 7 days and 8000 years of total existence defies the logic of what has been proven by some of the brightest minds ever to live on this planet.
Determined to come up with some of the brightest ideas on the planet.
The third EAT Stockholm Food brings together some of the world's brightest people in the fields of science, politics, business and civil society to shift food systems toward greater sustainability, health, security, and equity within the boundaries of our planet.
Also yesterday, I talked to Kelly Beatty of Sky and Telescope magazine about the dazzling dance right now between two super bright planets: Venus and Jupiter.
Bright, large, and easy to find, it was so pretty that I would stare at it and wonder what it would be like to be on a planet inside there, with hundreds of stars blazing away as bright as VeBright, large, and easy to find, it was so pretty that I would stare at it and wonder what it would be like to be on a planet inside there, with hundreds of stars blazing away as bright as Vebright as Venus...
The KELT monitors bright stars in large sections of the sky, searching for planets that orbit extremely closely.
When Cassini probed below the haze and into the troposphere, it revealed that the width of Saturn's bands alternates with latitude: narrower ones are darker and coincident with rapid jet streams, and the wider bands tend to be brighter, aligned with jets that are slower and maybe even stationary, relative to the general rotation of the planet.
Its 5 inch aperture ensures that it gathers plenty of light for great views of the planets and Moon, as well as brighter galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.
Mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are actually composed of many smaller spots.
Upcoming missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite due to launch in 2018, will fill in the details of the exoplanet landscape with more observations of planets around bright stars.
«Unexpected changes of bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres.»
Taking an optical image of distant planets is tough because the bright light from their stars drowns them out.
Color and black - and - white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.
When the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto on July 14, it will arrive not at the smallest planet but at the brightest and most intriguing member of the Kuiper Belt, the unexplored outer territory of the solar system.
In looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large - impact craters on the planet's surface.
On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.
But a model of Ceres presented at the LPSC has added a wrinkle by suggesting comet - like behaviour is only possible at the poles of the dwarf planet, not the lower - latitude areas where the bright spot has been seen.
Unlike Saturn's bright rings, which are made almost entirely of ice particles, Mars's rocky ring will be dark and largely invisible from Earth, although the cloud of orbiting Phobos bits will at first be dense enough to cast a shadow on the Red Planet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researcherPlanet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researcherplanet's orbit around the sun, the researchers say.
The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.
Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater
Although only one side of the planet faces its parent star, powerful winds transport heat from the bright side around the planet, keeping the dark side almost as hot.
«We already know that our Sun will be bigger and brighter, so that it will probably destroy any form of life on our planet.
Last year the Herschel Space Observatory detected wisps of water vapor around the dwarf planet, and since its arrival at Ceres, Dawn has imaged oodles of highly reflective bright spots on the Cereian surface that may be sites of exposed water ice.
Scientists already knew that Jupiter sported an aurora in its northern hemisphere — one that is permanent, large enough to swallow Earth, and hundreds of times brighter than the ephemeral glows our planet hosts at each pole.
Viewed from one of these newly found planets the two other suns would look like a pair of very bright stars visible in the daytime and at night they would provide as much illumination as the full Moon.
Tinetti says the earlier studies could be a product of the planets» bright sides cooking to the same temperature throughout, which makes atmospheric molecules less likely to absorb radiation from below.
While tracking light reflecting from the planet, astronomer Brice - Olivier Demory of MIT and colleagues found a particularly bright spot in Kepler - 7b's western hemisphere.
Researchers have used new techniques and one of the brightest X-ray sources on the planet to map the 3 - D structure of an important cellular gatekeeper in a more natural state than possible before.
One day that may be all it takes: Townes, a Nobel laureate at UC Berkeley, notes that flashes of light from planets around stars within 50 light - years could even grow bright enough for the naked eye to see.
But although some evidence points to past water oceans on Mars, only small amounts of carbonates have been found there — in Martian meteorites that landed on Earth and in atmospheric dust and bright soils on the planet.
Planet after planet that was spotted in the earlier days of the search, when all we could detect were very large planets circling very bright stars, were not lined up the way they were supposed Planet after planet that was spotted in the earlier days of the search, when all we could detect were very large planets circling very bright stars, were not lined up the way they were supposed planet that was spotted in the earlier days of the search, when all we could detect were very large planets circling very bright stars, were not lined up the way they were supposed to be.
Fomalhaut, a bright star 7.7 parsecs (25 light - years) from Earth, harbors a belt of cold dust with a structure consistent with gravitational sculpting by an orbiting planet.
This new planet is among the least endowed with such metals that we know of, and because it is so bright it should serve as a benchmark for comparative studies of how and under what conditions planets form.»
Plugging in the numbers, the punch line is: If there is a rocky planet transiting a nearby bright M - star with signs of life in its atmosphere, we will be able to find it.
That means billions of years ago, when Ceres experienced more impacts, the dwarf planet's surface likely would have been peppered with thousands of bright areas.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search the brightest stars in our galactic neighborhood for evidence of planets.
A molten river of rock nearly as bright as the sun encircled the planet, sandwiched between layers of gas.
The percentage of light reflected from a planet, or how bright it appears in the sky, is determined in part by the composition of its atmosphere.
Unlike images that depict the Red Planet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other faPlanet's surface in terms of elevation alone (bright colors from white through red to blue), the new map (muted colors) breaks the planet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other faplanet into nearly 50 types of regions based on their elevation, age, types of rocks, and other factors.
Microlensing works on a much smaller scale: Individual stars or planets focus the light of more distant stars, making the background star appear to grow brighter and then dim again.
This discovery was made by monitoring the light being reflected from the atmosphere of HAT - P - 7b, and identifying changes in this light, showing that the brightest point of the planet shifts its position.
Images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013, show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring — the outermost of the planet's large, bright rings.
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