Sentences with phrase «strips planets of»

Some researchers have proposed that this difference is caused by photoevaporation, which strips planets of their surrounding envelope of so - called volatiles — substances like water and carbon dioxide that have low boiling points — creating smaller - radius planets.

Venus has an «electric wind» strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere, which may have played a significant role in stripping the planet of its oceans, according to a new study by NASA and UCL researchers.

How do you strip a planet of its mantle only leaving the core?

Ann (Margot Robbie) lives alone in a lush, idyllic valley untouched by the radiation holocaust that has otherwise stripped the planet of its inhabitants.

The Scum are destroying whole landscapes, stripping our planet of resources and enslaving mankind.

Earth is under attack once again, with pesky aliens wanting to strip the planet of it's natural resources.

Not exact matches

We have an active culture of «nanostructured self - replicators» running loose over the planet, and funny thing, that hasn't started stripping the planet's crust (it does nibble here and there).

Changing water to wine Walking on water healing the sick drowning the world in an amount of water equal to five times the water on the planet fitting several of every animal on a boat that could not hold half of the animals and have enough to eat and drink the fidelity test in numbers making striped goats by having goats stare at stripes changing people into a pillar of salt plagues of toads

And in addition, you can't tell me definitively that the yellow, black, and white striped 1000 year old, and 100 foot tall polka dotted vampire lady in black stockings isn't alive and doesn't exist, speaking perfect English even though she has never visited our planet, on the dark side of the moon, and has never been seen by the golden crown of creation, god's highest achievement, man, who dwelleths at the very epi - center of the universe, surrounded on all four sides by the heavenly spheres and angels, and overseen by god in heaven bless her extensive gold threaded wardrobe.

Not sure what religion you are speaking of when you say they teach that we are to strip the planet bare and that God created the earth for us.

This passage is steeped in the rot - from - within despair of the 1970s, and it is not a coincidence that King did his best work in the decade of Jonestown and The Exorcist, the Ayatollah Khomeini and The Late Great Planet Earth, the decade that stripped away the confident science - and - progress ethos of the 1950s and early 1960s.

In Earth's infancy, our guardian may have prevented the sun's action from stripping away the protective bubble of gas surrounding our planet entirely, and so allowed life — and eventually intelligent life — to flourish.

And without a protective magnetic field around the planet, solar radiation would have stripped Earth's atmosphere and bombarded the surface, which was apparently the fate of Mars.

It might have stripped off the outer layers of a nearby star, caused a pair of stars to interact and consumed the released gas, or swallowed some planets whole.

Ultraviolet radiation could strip not only the water vapor from a habitable M dwarf planet, but also the oxygen and nitrogen in just tens of millions of years, astrophysicist Vladimir Airapetian of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues suggested in the February 10 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

But a pair of astronomers are now putting the question of what defines a galaxy to a public vote, in the hope of reaching a consensus and avoiding the sort of controversy that surrounded Pluto being stripped of its status as a planet.

The going theory is that particles from the sun stripped away much of Mars» atmosphere (and continues to do so) when the planet lost most of its protective magnetic field.

The feeble glow of microwaves from the sun is absorbed by our air on the way down, anyway, so unless the core somehow also strips off Earth's atmosphere — in which case we have bigger problems than solar radiation — we should be safe enough from microwaves if our planet's center stops spinning.

Instead of the neat green and yellow strips that we learned about in geography class, denoting jungle, desert and so on, the planet is now divided into a complex mosaic of different human - influenced ecosystems.

When NASA warns that «invasive species may pose the single most formidable threat of natural disaster of the 21st century,» it is all too easy to picture the aliens from Independence Day dropping in on our planet to strip it bare.

The magnetic field, which may be generated by the planet's core, is connected to the winds because of high temperatures stripping electrons from atmospheric atoms of lithium, sodium and potassium, making them positively charged.

Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth - like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory in Germany.

But a new study shows that harsh space weather might strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting in a red dwarf's habitable zone.

Once these planets migrate in, their star strips off the early atmosphere of lighter elements.

Although Pluto was stripped of its status as a planet, an ice cap is a surprisingly Earth - like property.

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications today (11 April 2016).

For instance, a catastrophic impact could have stripped away most of Mercury's rocky mantle, leaving the planet with its relatively huge iron core.

How such a dense planet formed is unclear, the researchers say, but it's probably the crystalline vestige of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere was stripped away by the parent pulsar.

There are many open questions about 55 Cancri e, especially: Why has the atmosphere not been stripped away from the planet, given the perilous radiation environment of the star?

This violent «stripping» occurs in planets that are made up of a rocky core with a gaseous outer layer.

There has been much theoretical speculation that such planets might be stripped of their atmospheres.

Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status, astronomers have discovered yet another moon in orbit around it, bringing its entourage to four.

Even when disturbances do not destroy galaxies, they can strip them of the gas they need to produce new generations of stars and planets, effectively sterilising them.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its title and rechristened it a «dwarf planet.»

Although it is in no danger of having its atmosphere completely evaporated and being stripped down to a rocky core, this planet could explain the existence of so - called hot super-Earths that are very close to their stars.

Furthermore, KELT - 9b receives ~ 700 times more extreme ultraviolet radiation (wavelengths shorter than 91.2 nanometers) than WASP - 33b, leading to a predicted range of mass - loss rates that could leave the planet largely stripped of its envelope during the main - sequence lifetime of the host star.

Large belts and zones form a consistent pattern of jet streams which give the planet its familiar striped appearance.

It's possible that instead of forming as terrestrial planets in place, rocky planets orbiting their stars every few days formed further out beyond the snow line where they accreted large amounts of gas before migrating and being stripped of their atmospheres.

This is because «cooked planets,» or those that lie close to their host stars, are stripped off of their atmospheres due to intense radiation coming from the fiery, heavenly bodies.

Its comparable mass and diameter to Pluto would grant it planet status if Pluto wasn't also stripped of that title.

This brings concerns about the levels of radiation these planets receive — it's possible that their star's radiation stripped them of their atmospheres, killing the chances of life taking hold.

Additionally, red dwarf stars, especially young ones, can experience superflares that emit high levels of radiation, which can strip away a planet's atmosphere and prevent life from getting started.

The study does not address whether Proxima Centauri's activity cycle would affect the potential habitability of the planet Proxima b. Theory suggests that flares or a stellar wind, both of which are driven by magnetic fields, could scour the planet and strip away any atmosphere.

But the event brings up yet again the debate about what constitutes a «planet» and what doesn't — a redefinition of the term planet stripped Pluto of its title, you might remember.

Scientists from NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft have determined that solar wind and radiation stripped away the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid, dry world.

In fact, as another recent modeling study demonstrated, planets in tight orbits around red dwarf stars might be getting lashed by an insane number of high - energy solar flares, stripping their atmospheres faster than they can be replenished.

That is, the thick atmosphere was stripped away by the sun and solar wind, and the thinning of the atmosphere caused the cooling of the planet that diminished the ability of liquid water to exist.»

Given the expected size distribution of impactors early in a solar system's history, the planet should have been stripped of its entire atmosphere in less than 100 million years.»

The 16 Psyche asteroid is thought to be the leftover iron core of a planet stripped of its mantle in a giant collision.

Besides, it helps us understand why, in the movie, the only being with the power to save the planet is a lithe model whose wardrobe chiefly consists of strategically placed strips of masking tape.