Sentences with phrase «planets form through»

Or perhaps the high - density cores could suggest that planets form through exotic processes similar to those of star formation.

Not exact matches

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

Now, we know how planets form, and we know that complex amino acids are able to form spontaneously in the right conditions, and we also know that evolution happens, and can result in a myriad of organisms, and all through natural, unguided processes.

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

The man lost radio contact with planet earth about a decade ago and has been drifting aimlessly through an 8 million quid hazy cosmic jive of his glory years with a rag tag collection of space junkies in tow believing that his fossilized form is some kind of relic from an alien master footballing race which he will eventually call back to north london in a kind of soccer inspired rapture in which Sam and Johnny and Krish and Pat and Mr Admin will finally see all their bizarro football predictions come to fruition..

The dust grains in the disk collide and aggregate to form pebbles, which grow into boulders, and so on increasing in size through planetesimals, planetary embryos, and finally rocky terrestrial planets.

Inspired by a 2012 paper that proposed a correlation between such hotspots and the velocity of seismic waves moving through Earth's interior, UC Santa Barbara geochemist Matthew Jackson teamed with the authors of the original paper — Thorsten Becker of the University of Texas at Austin and Jasper Konter of the University of Hawaii — to show that only the hottest hotspots with the slowest wave velocity draw from the primitive reservoir formed early in the planet's history.

According to previous predictions, giant planets that form through gravitational collapse of gas should complete their general formation within 100,000 years.

Such orbital migration would destroy any smaller, Earth - like planets that had formed, as an inward - moving giant would scatter smaller planets the way a bowling ball would blast through a pile of marbles.

New studies suggest lonely planets flying through intergalactic space were formed by star - destroying supermassive black holes.

This process would let metal trickle down through the mantle, accumulate in the center, and form a metal core, like the iron core at the heart of our home planet.

It will have many other applications, ranging all the way from studies of the planets and satellites in the Solar System, through the properties of star - forming regions in the Milky Way and out to the distant Universe.

Many scientists argue that Earth formed as a dry planet, and gained its water millions of years later through the impact of water - bearing asteroids or comets.

Volcanoes are openings, or vents, in Earth's crust through which magma — formed when the planet's upper mantle and lower crust melts — and gases are discharged.

Dark matter particles can penetrate all other forms of matter, which means that they may even be able to traverse right through our planet without losing any energy whatsoever.

Jupiter's core might have formed close to the sun and then meandered through the rocky planet construction zone.

Astronomers, at least some of them, think they know how planets form: Chunks of rock orbiting a star in a protoplanetary disk collide and stick together, eventually clearing a path through the disk as most of the rocks in the orbit smack onto the growing planet.

Through learning to read traces of the cataclysmic and remorseless geological changes that formed the planet, they uncovered a story that enabled them to compute the ages of the Earth, the solar system, our galaxy and the universe.

The recent Hubble images are already clarifying how heavy elements that form planets and living organisms spread through the universe.

Instead, the planets may have formed further in or out and then migrated through the gassy disc to their current positions.

Ghost - like particles that were first created in the instant following the Big Bang, antineutrinos and their partner neutrinos travel at close to the speed of light and are notoriously difficult to observe as they move through space, passing through planets, star systems, and galaxies with scant interactions with other forms of matter.

The team showed through isotope analyses of meteorites that Jupiter's solid core formed within only about 1 million years after the start of the solar system history, making it the oldest planet.

«Herschel has offered us a new view of the hitherto hidden universe, pointing us to a previously unseen process of star birth and galaxy formation, and allowing us to trace water through the universe from molecular clouds to newborn stars and their planet - forming discs and belts of comets,» ESA's Herschel project scientist Göran Pilbratt said in a statement.

«With a bit of luck, we might catch planets in the process of migrating through the planet - forming disk, by looking at these very young objects,» says Mawet.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

The latter stars invalidate the leading hot Jupiter formation theory, which holds that these planets form at «normal» distances and then migrate inward through some debatable mechanism.

Such a person loves all equally - humans, animals, planet and all forms of Universe that exists around us and through service to all others.

Activision has released a new trailer for the upcoming Transformers title, Transformers: War For Cybertron. This newest Transformers title features two distinct storylines: the Autobot campaign tells a story of heroism to save their home planet against overwhelming odds, and the Decepticon campaign tells a story of an unquenchable thirst for power to control the universe. For the first time in a Transformers title, fans will be able to play the game with their friends through team - based online co-op, or go head to head in a variety of online multiplayer game modes. The game features a sci - fi art style that introduces to fans the entire living, metallic world of Cybertron, as well as all - new visualizations of the iconic Transformers characters in their original Cybertronian forms.

Transformers: War for Cybertron takes players to the final moments of the grand civil war that will determine the survival of the entire Transformers race. Fans will be able to explore the Transformers war - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to survive.

The floating face - huggers take the form of bosses and mini-bosses strewn throughout the labyrinthine interior of the planet, and Samus must search low and high while acquiring and adapting to a range of powers to make her way through and erase all traces of Metroid DNA.

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The floating face - huggers take the form of bosses and mini-bosses strewn throughout the labyrinthine interior of the planet, and Samus must search low and high while acquiring and adapting to a range of powers to make her way through and erase all traces of Metroid DNA.

Exploration can also take the form of traveling through different spaces, be it island to island (The Secret of Monkey Island), country to country (Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars), and even planet to planet (Space Quest).

Armed only with a bag of jellybeans that enable the blob to transform into various helpful forms such as ladders, trampolines, cannons, parachutes, and even a rocket, they will progress through forty stages of puzzle platforming action that takes them across the planet and deep into space.

-- how many supernova's had to be created, go through their lifetime, and then blow up per second (between say 12 billions ago and 6 billion years ago) to make those 10 ^ 50 atoms so they could come into the solar system and be grouped by gravity into our planet's orbit in time for the continents to form 4.5 billion years ago?

Hence I see it as being clearer to regard a planet and in particular it's atmosphere (in our case air AND water) as a form of «resistor» in the same way as an electrical resistor will delay the current passing through it and thereby generate heat.

The interview forms the core of the inaugural episode of Bionic Planet, a new podcast launched by Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Steve Zwick and also available through iTunes, TuneIn, and Stitcher radio.

Sea level is rising, primarily in response to a warming planet, through thermal expansion of the oceans, and also via the loss of land ice as ocean and air temperatures increase, melting ice and speeding the flow of non-floating ice to form floating icebergs.

One suggestion he came up with was that the energy coming in from the sun in the form of visible and ultra-violet light (known back then as «luminous heat») was easily able to pass through Earth's atmosphere and heat up the planet's surface, but that the «non-luminous heat» (now known as infra - red radiation) then emitted by the Earth's surface could not make it back in the opposite direction quite so readily.

Simply speaking, volcanoes helped form the atmosphere while living organisms have helped shape the atmosphere to their liking in two ways: firstly by warming the planet to a liveable temperature by producing methane and carbon dioxide during the process of decay of dead matter, and secondly by creating oxygen through the process of photosynthesis by our green friends in the plant kingdom.

In coming decades, the planet faces an unprecedented challenge in the form of climate change and the only way to address it is through technological innovation and reduction of energy use.