Sentences with phrase «planet billions of light years»

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

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Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

In 2001, Charbonneau and astronomer Tim Brown of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the moon.

RAYS OF LIGHT Messenger's first snapshot from orbit captured the Debussy crater, the site of a billion - year - old major collision, one of the planet's most recenOF LIGHT Messenger's first snapshot from orbit captured the Debussy crater, the site of a billion - year - old major collision, one of the planet's most recenof a billion - year - old major collision, one of the planet's most recenof the planet's most recent.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

The first such star they identified is Beta Pictoris, a 23 - million - year - old star in the early stage of building its planets, about 63 light - years away from our 4.6 - billion - year - old solar system.

This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light years away, and there is not the slightest chance of observing these planets directly, not even with the best telescope one can imagine in a science fiction scenario,» said Guerras.

On a hypothetical planet, billions of light - years from Earth, a light started flashing toward Earth every second.

This column of gas is 7 light years long, and you could fit 10 billion billion billion Earth - size planets inside it.

After all, by NASA's estimate our Milky Way galaxy alone contains about 100 billion planets, including at least 1,500 that are within 50 light years of Earth.

The VLA has been used by more than 2200 researchers and has made important discoveries in nearly every astronomical specialty, from studies of the Sun and planets within the Solar System to young galaxies and quasars billions of light - years away.

In order for Mercury's core to have stayed molten over some 4.5 billions of years since the planet first formed from agglomerating planetisimals, however, its mostly iron core must also contain a lighter element, such as sulfur, to lower the melting temperature of the core material.