Sentences with phrase «of an alien world»

Cameron came up with a term for this special lack of depth: He calls his updated gimmick «immersive 3 - D,» as if putting audiences in the midst of his alien worlds and catastrophic battle scenes carried greater believability than any before in Western art.

The spacecraft is headed to its science orbit and prepping to discover thousands of alien worlds

In 2006 the French Space Agency's Corot spacecraft will look for other silhouetted planets that might reveal more about the composition of alien worlds.

This is the first time that anomalies in the occurrence times of transits have been used to make a solid claim for the discovery of an alien world, she says.

And because they are almost as cold as «gas giant» planets — Jupiter is about 150 K — studying them could offer a better handle on what the atmospheres of alien worlds look like.

Launching in 2018, one of Webb's main goals is to use spectroscopy, a method of analyzing light by separating it into distinct wavelengths which allows one to identify its chemical components (by their unique wavelength signatures) to determine the atmospheric components of alien worlds.

ASTRONOMERS can barely look up these days without detecting yet another crop of alien worlds circling distant stars.

This is Ceres, the dwarf planet that Dawn's been orbiting for more than a year now, providing us with fascinating views of an alien world.

MOFFET FIELD, CALIFORNIA — NASA's Kepler space telescope appears to have confirmed the existence of an alien world smaller than our own Earth — the first time such a planet has been discovered around a star like our sun.

Of course, this statistical analysis is just a projection and based on the very thin knowledge we have about the real distribution of alien worlds throughout the Milky Way.

Seager, 42, was selected for her groundbreaking exoplanet research, which has led to ever - better models of the atmospheres and interiors of alien worlds.

The study of alien worlds is entering its next phase as astronomers amass the best planets outside our Solar System to look for signs of life.

Most people would probably agree that astronomy is an inspiring subject, blowing our minds with astonishing facts about exploding stars, extrasolar planets and supermassive black holes while beguiling our eyes with awesome vistas of alien worlds and distant galaxies.

What's more, astronomers estimate that 500 million of these alien worlds are probably sitting inside the habitable zones of their parent stars.

The search for alien life may have taken a major step forward following the discovery of an alien world much like Earth.

It was during this first run that Kepler recorded data from HIP 116454, revealing evidence of the alien world.

K2 is uniquely positioned to dramatically refine our understanding of these alien worlds and further define the boundary between rocky worlds like Earth and ice giants like Neptune,» Steve Howell, Kepler / K2 project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, said.

Astronomers of the Pale Red Dot campaign — a project searching for hints of an alien world around our sun's nearest stellar neighbor — have done it.

The possibilities are astounding, but they also beg another question: What if we could see a moon orbiting one of these alien worlds for the first time?

With the help of the Kepler space telescope and advanced ground - based exoplanet - hunting techniques, for the first time we're directly observing a veritable menagerie of alien worlds, making this a historic time in human history.

Astonishingly, there are at least 100 Billion of these alien worlds just in our Milky Way Galaxy.

The team was able to deduce the number of exoplanets, as well as certain characteristics of these alien worlds such as their size, orbit, and composition, by identifying dips in the perceived light output of TRAPPIST - 1 as the planets passed between Earth and the star, blocking a portion of its light.

However, despite all the excitement, many of these alien worlds seem downright weird.

The cosmic discovery of this organic compound, however, is disappointing news for astrobiologists, who previously suggested searching for methyl chloride in the atmospheres of alien worlds as a possible indicator of life.

Especially the imagination that went into the creation of the alien worlds is magnificent and in its best moments even channels Star Wars.

When the existence of this newfound paradise is threatened, Picard faces a daunting decision - in order to protect the lives of the inhabitants of this alien world, he must commit treason and take up arms against the Federation itself.

Two obscure exploitation sex thrillers restored by Nicholas Winding Refn offer baffling glimpses of some alien world of counter-cinema.

I'd never heard of BookBub — I really need to get my head out of alien worlds more often and contemplate some of these options available to indie authors.

Explore every nook and cranny of an alien world, unlock a whole host of powerful weaponry and abilities and discover the truth in Axiom Verge, an old - school action - exploration game for Nintendo eShop on Wii U.

When you apply to the program, you're promised a chance to control one of the many rovers that the eXoplanetary Research Institute (XRI) ™ has put down on the surface of an alien world.

Ryder's long jumps and quick dashes complement the traversal - ready Nomad in preparing the player to explore as many of the alien worlds as they can find, even if they know a corridor full of moving targets is waiting at the end of each mission.

The player navigates the seas of an alien world in search of ancient artifacts.

Yet there remains much to be discovered of this alien world.

A year prior, Robert Smithson embarked on his own expedition into the nine Mayan ruin locations on the Yucatán peninsula, a «kind of alien world,» as he described it, and installed 12 mirrors to disrupt the sense of time.

The poster child recently for this absurdity has been the GPS system, and recently there was some clock put on a satellite which they claimed proved speed slowed down the clock, which on closer inspection showed the same wishful thinking as we note in reading the variety of models produced of an alien world with a cold Sun and no atmosphere passing itself off a this one — here, a real world analysis by a real world scientist blanked out by consensus:

Not exact matches

Letting two domains of knowledge that are usually alien to each other mix and mingle is a sure fire way to get your brain humming, so the idea of applying the thinking of anthropology to the world of start - ups isn't as strange as it appears at first blush.

In a situation which seems alien to the world of business, SAAS companies are effectively competing to see who can provide the most high - quality and relevant material to their users for free, and with very little chance of direct ROI in the immediate future.

For a Spielberg blockbuster that was universally praised, you have to go all the way back to Tom Cruise running from aliens in 2005's «War of the Worlds.»

Aliens taking over the world is a scary thing, sure, but humanity drowning in willful ignorance while the corrupt consume more and more of their livelihood... that's both a tragedy and a galactic embarrassment.

From suggesting tourists help catch tax - dodgers to e-mailing the wrong draft hours before Monday's emergency summit, Tsipras and his government used tactics that have proved alien to the more orderly world of the euro region: adversarial, ideological and, on occasion, chaotic.

Saying the majority of the population back then was Jewish is like someone reading the Issac Asimov 2,000 years from now and believing World War II was fought between Androids and Aliens.

Not even a little drop of alien intelligence guides anything on this world or universe.

Such an authority will necessarily be chaotic and tyrannical because the populations of the world certainly will resist it as its laws and regulations became increasingly alien and obnoxious.

Confronting the ideas of H.G. Wells, he suggests that the aliens we find on other planets may not be the destructive, inhuman powers of The War of the Worlds.

Nast's trope of the alien, not quite human, Catholic has come out of hibernation to be printed in newspapers and magazines all over the United States and the world.

But the pattern of appropriation is what I would want my students to notice most, for it is the typical and fundamental gesture of Christian humanism: to respond to the world by taking it over, by embracing it, by showing that no beauty, intelligence, or goodness is alien to Christianity or incompatible with it.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).

Second, though the world came into being through him, Jesus was not of this world; he came from above, and for this reason he was an alien in his own country.

They only confess - we were blind in our distrust of being, now we begin to see; we were aliens and alienated in a strange, empty world, now we begin sometimes to feel at home; we were in love with ourselves and all our little cities, now we are falling in love, we think, with being itself, with the city of God, the universal community of which God is the source and governor.

Perhaps because he was forced to exist for so many centuries as an exile in alien religious worlds, the Jew has been prepared to live in faith in a Godless world, and therein to preserve the name of the Lord, even if that name must now be named as no - thing - ness.