Sentences with phrase «planets the size of»

That's because such a feat would require gravitational interactions with a planet the size of Saturn or larger, something present in only about 10 % of single - star solar systems near us in the Milky Way.

ROCKY planets can form without heavy elements, suggests a survey of planets the size of Neptune and smaller.

Recent observations from the Kepler space telescope suggest that planets the size of Jupiter are relatively uncommon around other stars.

The long - held assumption was that it takes a planet the size of Earth to insulate a molten iron core, whose currents and eddies act as a dynamo to generate a magnetic field.

Many, many moons ago, a proto - planet the size of Mars slammed into early Earth.

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched in August, can see an object the size of Pluto located a few hundred astronomical units away [one astronomical unit is 96 million miles — the distance from the Earth to the s Sun], and Spitzer can detect a planet the size of Earth out to about 1,000 astronomical units.

«We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size of Jupiter, orbiting very closely,» said researcher George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy at The Australian National University.

But only about 10 % have planets the size of Jupiter or Saturn, scientists note.

Studying planets the size of the Earth is an even greater challenge.

Dr. Howard toured this diverse landscape of exoplanets, including the recent discoveries of planets the size of Earth.

While its mass and composition are not yet determined, previous research suggests that planets the size of Kepler - 452b have a good chance of being rocky,» NASA officials report on their website.

We are entering a scientific era in which we have the capability to detect not only giant planets the size of Jupiter, but Earth - sized planets in the habitable zones of their solar systems, the locations where liquid water can exist.

Planets the size of Jupiter are typically 10,000 - 100,000 times fainter than their stars, while Earth - size planets are a million times fainter.

Perhaps this endlessly growing global economic structure is soon to become patently unsustainable on a planet the size of Earth.

For our thought experiment, imagine a planet the size of the Earth, a perfect blackbody, heated from the interior at 235 watts per square metre of surface area.

With a planets the size of Jupiter and Saturn involved would it not be sufficient to propose that the movement of the solar system barycentre has a direct effect on the internal mechanics of the Earth's oceans?

The richest one - fifth of the population, including wealthy minorities in poor countries consume energy and resources at a rate that providing a comparable lifestyle to the rest of the world's population would require the resources of four planets the size of Earth.

Not exact matches

While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

One of the planets, a Neptune - sized planet orbiting a star about 470 light years away, is just 11 million years old.

While just 49 of Kepler's thousands of planet candidates are Earth - size and in a habitable zone, the discovery has rocked the scientific world: This could mean billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

«Understanding how planets form is important if we're to understand the formation of the Earth, and ultimately, how we got here,» said Erik Petigura, co-author of the paper about the Neptune - sized planet, to the Guardian.

In February, for example, a different one revealed the existence of seven rocky, Earth - size planets circling a red dwarf star.

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is about twice the size of Earth and has tumbled in the planet's atmosphere for at least 350 years.

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

Weighing in about the size of a 747, the unmanned air vehicles could bring Internet access to everyone on the planet.

If these aliens came form a planet of similar size, chemical composition, and distance from its star it stands to reason that they could be very similar to us in many ways up to and including our penchant for religions.

So would you prefer this: an unknown source says something in the media produced by someone apparently living on this planet may have caused some strong feelings among some yet to be identified crowds of unknown sizes to be engaged in possibly some distrubances which may have occured in some distant land...

The earthly 24 hour day is different say than a day on Mars due to different size of the planet etc.... The universe is not on the earth's 24 hour «day» so to speak.

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

Obviously you don't realize that an asteriod the size of just the Empire State Building that actually makes it to the surface of the earth at the average speed of most objects coming from the asteroid belt in our solar system would cause enough destruction and devastation on earth to wipe out most if not all of the planet.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

As much as it's steeped in space fights, planets and bases the size of moons, Star Wars isn't really about space.

In our individual occasions of experience we are collectively deciding the very fate of process on this planet, and the size of this moral predicament is truly overwhelming.

I also find your assertion that there is no other planet that is orbiting a sun at the right distance to support life highly unlikely given the size of the universe and the age.

Jupiter and Saturn are so big as to be circled by their own families of moons, some of which rival the other planets in size.

It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.

While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate vision: a world that is better for humans, animals and the planet.»

Like, Khalil Mack was of a similar size and athleticism, but his pass rushing technique and McKinley's are on totally different planets.

To say I dislike Mark Hughes would be like describing the size of the planet Jupiter as being bigger than a dog.

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On a sheet of wax paper we poured craft glue and the girls used brushes to make their planets according to the size they thought they were.

The galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable Earth - sized planets, according to even the most conservative estimate drawing on data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.

There's so much water on some of TRAPPIST - 1's seven Earth - sized planets that any life lurking there might be difficult to detect.

«Lots of hard work over the past few years suggests the cutoff — the transition between rocky and gaseous planets — occurs at about 1.5 times the size of Earth,» Kipping says.

Some of them, such as Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, additionally possess planetary rings — a collection of still smaller bodies of different sizes that also orbit a planet.

They show a bizarre variety of shapes, sizes and structures, including the likely effects of planets still in the process of forming.

This asteroid — about the size of Ceres, one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System — smashed into Mars, ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in the planet's interior.