Sentences with phrase «sky than the moon»

The setting is ostensibly the here and now — except that there just happens to be an «Earth 2,» an apparently identical planet that is now more prominent in the sky than the moon.

Not exact matches

I hope my work will, like Hawking's did for me, spur readers to look up at the night sky (preferably in the middle of nowhere) and see more than «just» moons, planets, stars, and galaxies.

The Bible also says rabbits chew their cud, the earth is balanced on pillars, the earth is a flat disc, the stars are small ornaments hung up in the sky, which itself is nothing more than a black sheet covering the world at night... it says the moon gives off its own light, it says the world was created in 6 days less than 10,000 years ago... It says a lot of things that aren't true.

the sun is 400 times the size of the earth's moon, 400 times further away from earth than the moon, yet they look both proportionally the same size in our sky?

More than just a night light, the ANTEQI Star Sky Night Lamp is a soothing star projector with LED lights that project stars and moons on the ceiling and walls as it rotates 360 degrees.

That's a big chunk of sky — the full moon covers only 0.2 square degrees — but it's an area 10 times smaller than what could have been determined with the LIGO detectors alone.

Jupiter is usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus); however at times Mars appears brighter than Jupiter.

Because all three gravitational - wave detectors saw the signal, physicists could triangulate and locate the source to within a 30 - square - degree patch of sky — about 60 times the size of the moon and much more precise than Fermi's localization.

They appear to be at very similar distances from us — around 7 billion light years — in a circle 36 ° across on the sky, or more than 70 times the diameter of the Full Moon.

The moon, for example, is perceived as much larger than it really is; few would guess that it would take some 100,000 moons packed together to fill the sky.

Because artificial light in the Menai Strait is rare, Davies says, the sky glow in the region would likely have amounted to less light than what occurs during the full moon.

But Rydin points out that the cost of producing pollen is high enough that Ephedra might conserve energy for the July full moon, which stays in the sky longer than partial moons.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

A new exoplanet - hunting spacecraft called Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will launch no earlier than mid-April 2018 to do an all - sky survey from an orbit between the Earth and the moon.

Allow your love to take you higher than the skies with oNecklace's sterling silver necklace engraved with the words «I Love You To The Moon And Back.»

Zhao often manages to frame a full moon in the big sky, and frequently lets the soundtrack consist of nothing more than the whisper of birdsong and breeze.

Stellarium displays a realistic 3D sky, complete with planets, major moons, more than 600,000 stars, and constellations from 10 cultures.

Back through the orchard, back to the hedge, through the brambles, into the meadow, across to the willow stump — Then a stronger, yellower light than the moon stabbed the sky.

The only thing more magical than hiking through a jungle in the dark, following a path that must be made of white gravel because it glows faintly in the full moon, is hiking through a jungle in the dark past big black hills — blacker than the sky behind them, blacker than the trees that -LSB-...]

Striding through the icy tunnels of Hoth as Darth Vader, cutting down rebel scum with ease; battling the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor as Luke Skywalker while the Empire's dreaded AT - AT stomps ever closer to victory; watching as a X-Wing comes screaming downwards for a perfect strafing run on an AT - ST; feeling a chill run down my spin as a team - mate is suddenly yanked up into the air and choked to death, the sure sign that I'm seconds away from death as Darth Vader himself comes into view; defending an AT - AT as nothing more than a Stormtrooper, witnessing raging battle on both land in the sky.

Meanwhile, at more than two metres tall, Robert Rauschenberg's Sky Garden is a colourful homage to the launch of Apollo 11 — which the artist was invited to witness — where you can make out an image of Buzz Aldrin's footprint on the moon.

For more than four decades, Vija Celmin (Vee - ya Sell - min) has worked late into the night obsessively drawing and painting her most beloved subjects, the dark sky, the surfaces of the ocean, the moon, and the desert, without horizon or perspective.

The moon sits in the sky outside your window mocking you as you lean back in your chair trying to get your eyes to focus to finish up the job so you can finally leave this wretched little office more than 13 hours, 10 cups of coffee, and a roll of Tums after you arrived.