Sentences with phrase «of the planet in»

This fundamental realignment of the planets in the media universe is the topic of a massive new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, authored by Tow director Emily Bell and University of British Columbia assistant professor Taylor Owen.

Instead of adapting to the need to be cautious and move toward sustainability, we are raising the temperature of the planet in ways will disrupt climates everywhere with unpredictable but disturbing consequences.

of planets in the universe.

Because I think it is way more likely that life arose on one of the trillions of planets in the universe than it is that the Jesus story in the bible is true.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Pick battles that actually mean something if you're going to try your best and offend 95 % of the planet in my name.

But it does follow that the development of a civilization which decimates other species casually and threatens to deforest much of the rest of the planet in the next two decades is beyond justification.

And once again, given the sheer number of planets in the universe, one would eventual end up like ours.

Population pressures and human technology are together adversely affecting the natural conditions of the surface of the planet in the following ways:

And this brings us to the heart of the problem we set out to solve, namely: What is the place, the significance and the importance of our planets in the Universe?»

People did nt know what an atom was or how to diagnose mental illnesses, or what the path of the planets in our solar system, etc..

Some of these planetesimals became the embryonic forms of the planets in our solar system today, the Earth being one of them.

The predictability of the movement of the planets in the solar system is an example.

They are the ones that started the process towards intelligent life on many of the planets in the Star Trek universe (though I think this wa a cheesy way to explain why all the «aliens» looked like guys with green body paint).

This modern watch features a streamlined silicon wristband design and a vibrant view of a planet in deep space on the dial.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

A set of eight melamine plates featuring detailed watercolor portraits of the planets in our solar system!

Most of the planets in the Solar System have smaller bodies, or satellites, that orbit a planet.

In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the other known planets — a fact that Brown says makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.»

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

LkCa 15B Scientists got their first look at the birth of a planet in October.

Do you want to throw away an opportunity to find a huge number of planets in the galaxy because you didn't come up with the money?

The specific issues that I addressed in my Ph.D. thesis were all associated with, or at least motivated by, problems in theoretical astrophysics, gravitational dynamics in particular: the evolution of the orbits of planets in the solar system and the evolution of structure in galaxies.

«What we observe really fits into the idea that there are two different types of planet in this range», says Leiden team member Ignas Snellen.

Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet - lovers have been hooked on auroras on other planets.

That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of planets in the outer solar system and searches for life on Earth - like exoplanets.

Species and ecosystems do not have time to adjust, especially when climate change is happening in a world where people have transformed the face of the planet in other ways, through deforestation and so forth.»

I think in 10 years we'll have several examples of planets in habitable zones around small stars, and we'll have data to work with to understand their atmospheres.

By monitoring so many stars, you increase the chances of a transit and you have more statistical power to make estimates about the frequency of planets in the galaxy.

«Gravitational interaction of planets in our solar system is central to our understanding of its formation and evolution, yet this interaction had been elusive in exoplanet systems,» Nesvorny says.

Studying the birth of planets in the cool, dusty cocoons around infant stars turned out to be the perfect task for the downsized and reconfigured observatory.

The robotic pair landed on opposite sides of the planet in January 2004, and have far exceeded their expected lifespans of 3 months.

Kepler found that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is something between the size of Earth and Neptune — a «super-Earth,» which has no parallel in our solar system and was thought to be almost impossible to make.

This artist's impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST - 1 system.

Such a fierce stellar wind would batter the atmosphere of any planet in the habitable zone, unless that planet was shielded by a magnetic field.

Getting a big sample is crucial because only one in a hundred of those stars that do have planets will be oriented so that the passage of the planet in front of the star is visible from Earth.

Naiad, the once lost moon of Neptune, emerged as a point of light (circled) just to the left of the planet in archived images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

More recently, NASA's Kepler spacecraft found that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is something between the size of Earth and Neptune, which has no parallel in our solar system and was thought to be almost impossible to make.

As scientists learn more about the magnetospheres of planets in our solar system, it can help us one day identify magnetospheres around more distant planets as well.

Together with observations from more northern latitudes, Cook's 1769 data provided the first accurate distance to our star — and by extension, to the rest of the planets in the solar system.

«If we find all of these planets in the Venus Zone have a runaway greenhouse - gas effect, then we know that the distance a planet is from its star is a major determining factor,» Kane added.

«Scientists make the case to restore Pluto's planet status: New definition raises number of planets in solar system to about 110.»

«I look forward to observing two successive transits of this planet in one single night,» Johnson says.

Researchers confirmed two of these planets in 2016 but upped the tally to seven after they gathered more data.

A theory exists that Mars» large North Polar Basin or Borealis Basin, which covers about 40 percent of the planet in its northern hemisphere, was created by that impact, sending debris into space.

Estimates of the odds of a planet in general vary; some studies suggest sunlike stars have about a one in 10 chance of hosting an Earth - like planet, for example, whereas others say it's possible nearly every main - sequence star has at least one planet of some type orbiting it.

A SUBTLE anomaly in the orbit of the planets in our solar system could prove a controversial idea that goes beyond Einstein.

But there is a third type of planet in our solar system — part gas, part ice — and this is the first time anyone has spotted a twin for our so - called «ice giant» planets, Uranus and Neptune.

«It's not an actual trapezoid that describes the shape of a field, or some configuration of the planets in space,» Ossendrijver told Live Science.

A much better answer — the answer we would give today — is that there are billions of planets in our galaxy, and billions of galaxies in the universe.