Sentences with phrase «stars as planets»

The problem is that the proposal would mean defining all round objects smaller than stars as planets.

Like Kepler, TESS looks for transits — the subtle shadows that sweep across a star as a planet passes in front.

Spectrographs can expose the slight back - and - forth motion of a star as a planet orbits it.

Using the Hubble telescope, Jeffrey Linsky and his team at the University of Colorado in Boulder calculated the tail's composition, direction and speed by studying changes in the ultraviolet spectra of the planet's host star as the planet passed in front of it (The Astrophysical Journal, DOI: 10.1088 / 0004 - 637X / 717 / 2/1291).

The two main methods — measuring the wobble of stars caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet and measuring the periodic dimming of a star as a planet passes in front — both favor big planets in close orbits.

PLATO will search for exoplanets using what is known as the transit method, which simply involves measuring the dimming of the light from a star as a planet passes in front of it.

The Kepler spacecraft detects planets such as Kepler 19 b by watching them dim the light of their host star as the planets pass in front, or «transit.»

As the planet orbits around its star, we expect to see regular small dips in the light coming from the star as the planet moves in front of it.

Of the more than 300 other known exoplanets, all have been detected indirectly by their effects on their parent stars — either a wobble in induced by the object's orbit or a decrease in detected light from the star as the planet passes in front of it.

The team previously determined Kepler 78b's orbit and size by analyzing the light given off by the star as the planet passes in front of it, or transits.

In another method, astronomers watch for small dips in the amount of light from a star as a planet passes in front of it.

The mega-Earth was discovered by Kepler as the space telescope observed the dimming of the host star as the planet orbited in front of it, a process known as the transit method.

Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.

Since then, researchers have tried to verify the planet's existence using transits — a slight dimming in the star as the planet passes by — but haven't found additional, conclusive evidence.

Not exact matches

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As planet Uranus makes a move, travel is in the stars and if you have a chance to mix and mingle with people from different cultures, you can progress in some way.

There's no scientific consensus as to how many of those stars might be like our own Sun, and how many may have Earth - like planets orbiting around them.

He will ask you to start a colony on a planet that exists as a red star in the night sky.

As [his] Death Star moves into striking range of every industry on the planet.»

You do not have to be a NASA scientist or a religious person to know that there has to be a designer who is responsible for this existence, just walk outside at night and gaze at the stars and ask yourself as to how did our solar system became so perfectly established and how our planets are perfectly aligned.

The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

Of the trillions of stars (most of which probably have some rocky planets orbiting it from the leftovers of its formation) there are probably plenty of planets orbiting their stars at the same distance as ours with varying conditions, ours just happened to be right for humans to evolve and be here today.

And then, having created this universe of over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars he decides to focus his attention on one planet where he creates life «in his image» as if such a being would even have an image.

When I look up at the stars in the night sky, it is obvious to me that there are many suitable planets where life has taken hold just as it has here on Earth.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

«Let's assume (like evolution does) all these came magically out of thin air»... It's been proven that these are created as stars and planets form...

Its a proven fact that planets exist orbiting other stars, and more are being discovered as technology and time progresses.

Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients for new life, new planets, new humans in fact as both you and I and everyone on the planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.

He theorized (and this is put very basically mind you all, so please correct me if I get something drastically wrong) that since the stars and planets and other bodies in space do not collide into one another as chaos would prescribe, and since they are set so perfectly apart that their gravity doesn't pull them into one another, there must be something that set it up perfectly to not allow that.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

Science, for the most part, studies objects such as pendulums, steel balls on inclined planes, planets and stars.

4 = 42» express different thoughts or propositions, just as the strings «The morning star is a planet with a shorter period of revolution than the Earth» (1) and «The evening star is a planet with a shorter period of revolution than the Earth» (2) express different thoughts (FBB 26).

If there were a large number (possibly infinite) of different physical laws (or fundamental constants) in as many universes, some of these would have laws that were suitable for stars, planets and life to exist.

The formation of the stars, the creation within those stars of the periodic table of elements and the formation of the planets and planetary systems can be seen as the «free will principle» of the material dimension of the universe.

Sun and moon, planets and stars, pulsars and black holes — as well as the planet earth — are to participate in that final consumption of the redemption.

It was based on observations of stars and planets movements and the how the Earth horizon moved as the day progressed.

As another example, if the relationship between the strengths of the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force were not close to what it is, then the cosmos would not harbor any stars that explode and spew out life - supporting chemical elements into space or any other stars that form planets.

4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained on the early earth until it was cool enough for oceans to form 7s) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

We used to assume that, when we were observing a planet or star, the time on the star was the same as ours.

Our Godly father of all things created is awesomely grand and He may well have had too many first born sons when in the very beginnings of Creationism, God had to do away with many of them in order for their survival of the most fittest sons to begin building all these celestial creations we know of as suns, and stars and moons and planets,,,

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Known as Gliese 581 g, the planet orbits a star named Gliese 581, which is about 20 light years away (the nearest star to the Sun is 4.3 light years away).

As much as it's steeped in space fights, planets and bases the size of moons, Star Wars isn't really about spacAs much as it's steeped in space fights, planets and bases the size of moons, Star Wars isn't really about spacas it's steeped in space fights, planets and bases the size of moons, Star Wars isn't really about space.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

As were all other other planets created by their stars.

When GQ's Michal Hainey asked Rubio, in an interview released Monday, «How old do you think the Earth is,» the rising Republican star described the debate about the planet's age as «one of the great mysteries.»

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

Our star will continue to expand as it ages and eventually this planet will no longer be hospitable for life as we become more like Mercury.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

It is not only the Germany international star that needs to pull his socks up for Arsenal and put in the sort of performance we know that he can, but as he is among the club's top earners, if not the very top as some sources have suggested, as well as having the reputation of being one of the best creative footballers on the planet, you can understand why people expect more from Mesut Ozil.