Sentences with phrase «shortly after its formation»

Donald Yeomans, who calculates the orbits for near - Earth objects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says that comets flung out from that belt pummeled our planet shortly after its formation and could have left behind water, possibly creating the conditions that allowed Earth to become a cradle for life.

«Remarkably, the required time is only about 200 million years — so we are witnessing this galaxy shortly after its formation.»

During and shortly after the formation of Mercury, it was heavily bombarded by comets and asteroids for a period that ended 3.8 billion years ago.

This galaxy was observed shortly after its formation and is the most distant galaxy in which dust has been detected.

When the other seniors at Calvary Chapel high school in Murietta, California, joined in the discussion, the class moved quickly from the question of whether the monster in the novel can be blamed for his behavior — since he was abandoned shortly after his formation, and no one taught him right from wrong — to the more complex issue of «whether the monster has a soul.»

Not exact matches

This dream did not then come to fruition, but it anticipated by a little more than a century the formation, shortly after the next general European war, of the International Missionary Council, which was to undertake this very function.

The observations with the X-shooter on the VLT show that dust formation has two stages, which begin shortly after the explosion, but continuing long after.

The finding is remarkable, as this pattern of stellar rotation in a dead galaxy strongly contradicts prevalent astrophysical theory regarding the formation of elliptical - shaped galaxies shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

Fundamentally, it seems to indicate that in the galaxies (or at least in this galaxy) that formed relatively shortly after the Big Bang, the onset of star formation and related element production was very rapid.»

Shortly after the big bang about 14 billion years ago, collapsing gas and dust clouds might have lead to the formation of galaxies.

Washington, DC — New work from a team including Carnegie's Hanika Rizo and Richard Carlson, as well as Richard Walker from the University of Maryland, has found material in rock formations that dates back to shortly after Earth formed.

The judge will send that fee, along with a certified copy of the Certificate of Formation, to the Secretary of State shortly after the Certificate is issued.

He joined the institution shortly after its 2011 formation, through Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Societys» court - mandated merger.

According to an RISMedia Survey launched shortly after Zillow's introduction of Instant Offers in two test markets — Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas — nearly 87 percent of respondents consider the introduction of Zillow Instant Offers as a shift towards Zillow to become a real estate brokerage, a strategy that has been anticipated by many since Zillow's formation in 2006.