Sentences with phrase «reached earth this year»

The energy this event generated has finally reached Earth this year.

Not exact matches

But even traveling at an incredible speed of 95,000 kilometers an hour (59,000 mph), it would have taken 300,000 years to reach Earth from Vega — and Vega wasn't in the same place 300,000 years ago.

If the nanocraft reach the star system and succeed in taking photographs, it would take about another four years to transmit them back to Earth.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

Some think that the bible tells them that the earth has to be less than 10,000 years old rather than the better explanation, that writing did not come into being until close to 6,000 years ago and our oral collective memory couldnt reach too much further back SO it makes sense that the old testament would appear to only reach back 10,000 years.

It is the 1st book of the Bible, Genesis, that gives us how long our Creator, Jehovah God, took in preparing the earth for human habitation (when it reached the proper point of preparation), a period of six «creative» days, with each «day» being several thousand years long.

That distance gives us the amount of TIME it took to reach Earth; the most recent is closer to 14 Billion, with a B, years.

Some prophetic voices tell us that we have only a few years to make vital and far - reaching decisions — or else human existence on this planet will come to a tragic end long before the earth is swallowed by a dying sun.

First a village priest reached forth with his own bundle of white candles (33 in a bundle, to symbolize the years of Christ's life on earth) to receive the flame.

Noting that the population of the earth is expected to double by the year 2000, reaching seven billion, the study adds:

Some hundreds of thousands of years ago Consciousness achieved the stage of its own centration, and thus the power of thought, in a brain that had reached the limit of nervous complication: this was the first stage in the hominization of Life on earth.

In view of the obsessing immediacy of national disaster, it is the more amazing that the high altitude of international vision and goodwill, surpassing all that had preceded it and standing solitary long afterwards, should have been reached in the desperate years of the Exile — «Yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.»

Space is so large that light from distant stars takes many years to reach the Earth.

Putting aside, for the moment, that all nations capable of reaching either the Moon or Mars have signed and ratified a treaty recognizing those areas as international territory, America is the only country to have ever placed people on a body outside the Earth, and we haven't even bothered doing it in over 40 years.

-LRB-... The level of the most important heat - trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long - feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

Despite the worst ice conditions in years and a near catastrophic tent fire, we survived for 24 days on the ice and set the record for the first mother and son team to reach one of the Earth's poles by foot.

Upon reaching the Red Planet, you'd wait up to two years for Earth and Mars to be at their closest before your return trip, which would last another six to nine months.

The roots of our family tree reach back millions of years to the beginning of life on earth.

The light from the exploding star, which took 9.4 billion years to reach Earth, fell squarely on one galaxy sitting in one of the Frontier Fields clusters.

Rainer Weiss, a German - born American physicist, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, took a defining step when he authored a 1972 paper on the design of a laser - based interferometer to detect the collision of black holes in outer space that would take more than a billion years to reach Earth.

It covered 30 times the Earth - sun distance — 30 astronomical units — to reach Pluto in just about nine years.

According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.

New observations of Cassiopeia A (Cas A), the gaseous remnant of a supernova whose light reached the Earth around the year 1680, could meanwhile confirm this theoretical prediction.

The consensus, reached in 1984, is that a Mars - size rock named Theia collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago.

Last December 2 a strange signal reached Earth from a source thousands of light - years away in the center of our galaxy.

Ripples from that union, which took place about 3 billion light - years from Earth, zoomed across the cosmos at the speed of light, eventually reaching the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, which detected them on January 4.

On Dec. 26, 2015, after traveling for 1.4 billion years, the waves reached Earth and set off the twin LIGO detectors.

Those clues, however, are revealing that the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 26 years ago and now 90 times as far from the sun as Earth is, either has reached or will soon enter a turbulent region near the solar system's final...

The analysis is based on the fact that as the world warmed following the coldest part of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, the ice deep inside the Antarctic glaciers warmed more slowly than Earth's surface, just as a frozen turkey put into a hot oven will still be cold inside even after the surface has reached oven temperature.

When it safely reached its unusual orbit, trailing Earth in its path around the sun, astronomers, many of whom had staked 23 years of their careers on the project, breathed a sigh of relief.

ORIGIN STORY Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may travel hundreds of millions of light - years to reach detectors on Earth, a new study shows.

This periodic change in the amount of radiation reaching Earth lasts roughly 11 years, but is highly erratic.

Because of this, the pulses are separated by 11.6 years when they reach Earth.

«We need an eight - year mission to reach our goal of understanding whether there are other worlds out there like Earth.»

The last time researchers believe the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reached 400 ppm — between 3 and 5 million years ago during the Pliocene — Earth was about 3.5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer (2 to 5 degrees Celsius) than it is today.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

Starlight from very distant galaxies takes billions of years to reach Earth, so we see these galaxies as they were billions of years ago.

Then on February 23, 1987, light from SN 1987A reached Earth, completing a 163,000 - year journey from the Large Magellanic Cloud and bringing with it a panoply of surprises.

When it reaches opposition on New Year's Eve, its rings will be maximally tilted toward Earth.

The core reaches only as far back as the latter part of the Pleistocene epoch, when Earth began cycling between warm and cold periods every 100,000 years.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the international team of collaborators peered across cosmic time to observe 65 distant galaxy clusters whose light has taken billions of years to reach Earth.

Today we are pushing the carbon dioxide level to a height it last reached 24 million years ago, when there was a lot less ice on Earth and the climate was very different.

Though the light from the nearest galaxy takes about 3 million years to reach Earth, what we see is a relatively recent picture, considering that a sunlike star lives almost 3,500 times longer than that.

The researchers think the collision took place about 160 million years ago, with the major impactor reaching Earth some 95 million years later, about the time the dinosaurs went extinct.

A map of the dust in M82, 11.4 million light years away, was created by measuring how long it took for these light echoes to reach Earth.

Then Earth reached a critical point 2.3 billion years ago when the fumes released when crustal rocks are squeezed and deformed could no longer absorb the oxygen produced by bacteria.

The Perseid shower reaches its peak once a year, in mid-August, when Earth's orbit carries the planet through the debris stream left behind by Comet Swift - Tuttle, a 26 - kilometer body that sheds ice and dust as it orbits the sun.

Astronomers believe that light from the explosion reached Earth in 1680; debris within the remnant, now more than 10 light - years across, still flies outward at thousands of kilometers per second.

The last comparable lava eruption on Earth occurred 15 million years ago, and it's been more than two billion years since lava as hot as that found on Io (reaching 1,480 degrees Celsius, or 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit) flowed on Earth.

It resides in a luminous galaxy, or quasar, so far away that its light took 13 billion years to reach Earth.