Sentences with phrase «possibility of other planets»

Both are likely too close to their star to host life, but the discovery opens the possibility of other planets in the system with more temperate climates.

Not exact matches

ddeev... because I would consider, and I do, that there might be other life forms on one of the 400 billion planets thought to be inexistence, does not mean that I would devote my life to that possibility.

The Universe is never ending, as well as the possibility for life on other planets outside of the Milky Way.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

It is the problem of how to understand the meaning of the symbol «Christ» (or any other man - centered religious symbol, for that matter) in the light of the immensity of the universe, the heliocentric system of planets, the infinitely small part of the universe which man and his history constitute, and the possibility of other «worlds» in which divine self - manifestations may appear and be received.

Nevertheless, I did find his essays on Church Music, the Psalms, Petitionary Prayer, Biblical Criticism, and The Seeing Eye (about the possibility of aliens on other planets) to be insightful and «classic C. S. Lewis.»

Evolution, even of the galaxies and the stars and the planets, is nothing other than God's patient luring of all that is into newly emerging fulfillments of possibility.

«I think the state should explore the possibility of entering into other planets,» said Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D - Earth).

Waukesha, WI — The March 2014 issue of Discover magazine speculates what we might learn about life on other planets by exploring Earth's most extreme landscapes, investigates the unexpected medicinal possibilities of nicotine and profiles the energy firms turning pig waste into sustainable power.

Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.

This, however, raises fascinating and problematic questions about the possibility of life occurring on other planets.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

«If you want to understand the possibility of life on other planets, it takes more than just finding one in the same size and orbit as Earth and trying to study it,» Bennett says.

It also reveals that once life emerges, it is surprisingly resilient and difficult to destroy, opening the possibility of life on other planets.

But this doesn't entirely rule out the possibility of other habitable, short - period planets.

The microbe seems to be able to replace phosphorus with arsenic in some of its basic cellular processes — suggesting the possibility of a biochemistry very different from the one we know, which could be used by organisms in past or present extreme environments on Earth, or even on other planets.

Possibilities for the cause of the orbital disturbance include interactions occurring from the inward migration of planets, the ejection of other planets from Star A's system through planet - to - planet scattering, or disruption from Star B. (See a larger, interactive animation of the planetary and potentially habitable zone orbits of this system, with a table of basic orbital and physical characteristics.)

The discovery of planets orbiting other star systems, including similar binary systems (Gamma Cephei), raises the possibility that additional planets may exist in the Alpha Centauri system.

Speaking of the possibility of life on other planets, Amber Turner, a first - generation UNLV senior majoring in geology, began working alongside Lisa Danielson, UNLV Graduate Col - lege Alumna of the Year and geoscientist, at Jacobs / NASA this spring to explore whether or not humans might someday have a relocation option.

We, as a scientific community, know the planets quite well, enough to make predictions on the possibility of finding planets around other nearby stars.

The implications of such activity on a world other than our planet open up unprecedented scientific possibilities.

Gravitational microlensing opens up the possibility of mapping the vast expanses of the entirety of the Milky Way to really study the distribution of planets across the galaxy and discover planet - type objects that can't be detected with any of the other planet - hunting methods that are currently being used.

«This new understanding about how life can still exist in physically extreme and nutrient - starved environments like Antarctica opens up the possibility of atmospheric gases supporting life on other planets,» adds Ferrari.

Although no compelling evidence of extraterrestrial life has yet been found, the possibility that biota might be a common feature of the universe has been strengthened by the discovery of extrasolar planets (planets around other stars), by the strong suspicion that several moons of Jupiter and Saturn might have vast reserves of liquid water, and by the existence of microorganisms called extremophiles that are tolerant of environmental extremes.

It is reasonable to expect that the research by space scientists using data from the Webb will produce significant advances in understanding the formation and evolution of the oldest stars in our universe, the life cycles of stars, the environmental composition of different exoplanets, and possibilities for living systems on planets circling other stars.

In Corpus Christi, Texas, when Jenna Ruiz - Ortiz teaches about the possibility of human habitation on planets other than earth, her students put on their lab coats.

However, one that certainly caused me to sit back and rethink some of my ideas re life on Earth, the possibility of life on other planets and what it costs in human relationships to search for that life is «The Sparrow» by Mary Doria Russell.

Nearly every person on the planet lives in a hazard zone of some sort, with the possibility of a severe storm or shaking ground or bomb or some other disturbance disrupting daily life for many days, if not weeks.

And at some point someone here is going to call anyone who is not convinced by this uncited, in - expert commentary (anyone, in other words, who accepts the mere possibility that the billions of humans on the planet and their massive technocracy might, just might have an effect on the environment) as a «true - believer.»

Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.

As for her concern that, «The other less reported «new reform» under the IAS introduced last year has been the requirement for indigenous organisations receiving «grants of $ 500,000 or more in a single financial year from funding administered by the Indigenous Affairs portfolio to incorporate under Commonwealth legislation under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006», unless she's been on another planet she should understand that this is because it's important to minimise the possibility of corrupt bureaucrats diverting moneys to their own personal ends.