Sentences with phrase «similar known planets»

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So the point of this is, atheists, is that if you're claiming someone is a lune for having God intereacting with them, it's similar to saying they're a lune for receiving a phone call from someone they know, because phone calls are selective too, they can consume someone's senses, and there's no guarantee that the person calling, will contact everyone over the planet... just to prove themself to someone that isn't a friend... or someone that doesn't love God.

The only truly Earth - like planet we know of — ours — takes more than 150 times as long as HAT - P - 7 b does to circle its star, so collecting data on similar planets across multiple orbits will take years.

Rohling: Yeah, so what we see is that for a current level of forcing, so 1.6 watts per meter square net forcing, if we look in the relationship that we now recognize between sea - level change and climate forcing, we're are, more or less, looking at in the equilibrium state, natural equilibriumstate, where the planet would like to be that is similar to where we were 3.5 million years ago and that's where we're looking at sea level, you know, at least 15 meters, maybe 25 meters above the present.

Now an Israeli physicist predicts that a similar but far more subtle anomaly in the orbits of the planets, if detected, might prove his own theory, known as modified Newtonian dynamics, or MOND.

As a result, NASA's strategy for searching out life on other planets has generally been to «follow the water,» looking for life similar to that on Earth, Porco said, because that's what we know how to find.

Marcy and Butler recently posted a notice on their Web site of the discovery of a somewhat similar planet circling the star HR3522, also known as 55 Rho Cancri.

The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a hot Jupiter, meaning it is similar in size to Jupiter in our solar system but in very close orbit around its star.

McKibben: That's right — that without knowing it, we've, sort of, taken a voyage and landed on a planet that's superficially and in certain [ways] similar to the one we grew up on, but in certain other ways quite different.

Other planets with similar masses, known as super-Earths, are thought to be either smaller and rockier, or bigger and puffier, like miniature Neptunes.

We already knew one way to dry out Earth or a similar planet: just wait.

There are a number of viruses that have a similar way of copying themselves — a process that reverses the normal flow of information in cells, which is where the term «retro» comes from — and their central machinery for replication may be a bridge from the original life - forms on this planet to what we know as life today.

It exhibits similar orbital characteristics to the previously known extreme bodies whose positions and movements led Sheppard and Trujillo to initially propose the influence of Planet X.

Whether Planet Nine is rocky or more of a gas or ice giant simply isn't known yet, although it is considered likely to be similar to Neptune.

This talk will focus on our new discoveries with VLT / SPHERE of a beautiful two - armed spiral disk with a large gap (the third known of its kind) and an edge - on warped debris disk — similar to the warp induced by the planet in Beta Pic.

«Today we know that there are literally thousands, if not millions of other planets, many of which may be very similar to our own earth,» Bolden said.

When looking for habitable worlds, it helps to find a star that has similar qualities to our sun as it's the only star known to have a planet orbiting that's packed with life.

However, despite the current extreme conditions, Mars was more similar to Earth than any other known planet in the outer space, and in fact, remains so to date.

The field of exoplanets is hotter than ever: we learned that planets are literally everywhere and that planets with sizes similar to Earth are the most common among the known planets.

Although Mercury has no known satellites, the planet is similar to Earth's Moon because its surface is heavily cratered and very old, and there is no evidence of plate tectonics.

We know now there is at least one planet with some characteristics similar to the Earth,» said Pete Worden, a former top NASA manager, who was speaking at a European Southern Observatory webcast news conference to announce the find.

The authors of a study published November 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now conclude that between 14 and 30 out of every 100 stars with a mass and temperature similar to the sun may host a planet that could support life as we know it.

So while this is indeed a landmark discovery, and no doubt cause for great cheer, researchers are still looking for the perfect storm of an Earth - sized planet that orbits within the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our Sun.

After a great deal of analysis the OGLE team finally concluded that the system must have formed in a similar way to how a star / planet / moon system must form and could serve as a «missing link» between what we know about planet formation and what we hope to learn about moon formation.

It's the sort of work similar to Andy Serkis from Rise of the Planet of the Apes where you know it deserves praise and award consideration but likely won't get it due to the unique nature of the role.

The technique, which is known as «stratospheric aerosol injection», could cool the planet in a similar way to a large volcanic eruption.