Sentences with phrase «stronger than our sun»

New research shows that its stellar wind is 50 times stronger than our Sun's.

The heavy elements, or metals, were surprising because white dwarfs contain about as much mass as the Sun squeezed into bodies the size of the Earth, giving them surface gravities 10,000 times stronger than the Sun's.

The smaller star is the source of the magnetic field, and even though that field is about 1000 times stronger than the sun's, imaging it still required two arrays of radiotelescopes, plus two extra dishes, to detect the signals generated by magnetic fields.

Measurements taken during an earlier study shows that its magnetic field is several hundred times stronger than our Sun's.

The vast majority of the 100,000 stars observed to experience the flare events as part of the study boast a magnetic field significantly stronger than our Sun.

The young, eruptive variable star completes a rotation in less than 4.4 days (unlike Sol's 25.4 days or over three and a half weeks) which creates a magnetic field around a hundred times stronger than the Sun's (NASA news release; and Michael E. Contadakis, 1995).

While humankind is theoretically capable of blasting a laser beam into space that is 10,000 times stronger than the sun, Diamond continued, «there isn't an instrument on Earth that can detect an Earth - like planet with Earth - like leakage of electromagnetic radiation.»

Not exact matches

«Chelsea in particular have improved, but Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal also look stronger than last season,» Shearer started in his column for The Sun.

Now four PCAA teams, including the Runnin» Rebels, are stronger than 9 - 10 UCLA, according to Sagarin's calculations: 12 - 6 Utah State, 12 - 6 Long Beach State and 14 - 4 UC Santa Barbara, whose coach, Jerry Pimm, while sunning himself on the deck of the 50 - foot yacht on which he lives, mulls over installing a closed - circuit TV system in the Gauchos» old gym for fans turned away from the sold - out home games.

The sun is strongest between 10 and 4 o'clock, so when you can, time your stroll or outside play with your baby earlier than 10 or later than 4.

Even during hot but overcast days, the sun is stronger than it appears.

They are made of strong but lightweight material and some weigh less than 20 pounds even though they have the same features as the older models such as reclining seats, sun shades and storage baskets.

«Despite stronger solar wind and EUV - radiation levels under the early Sun, ion escape can not explain more than 0.006 bar of atmospheric pressure lost over the course of 3.9 billion years,» says Robin Ramstad.

The massive star Sirius, for example, is just over twice as far away as Alpha Centauri — but because it shines some 25 times brighter than our sun, it offers a stronger radiation - pressure braking effect, allowing light sails to approach at much higher speeds.

The star's magnetic field, trillions of times stronger than Earth's, is thought to have triggered an enormous starquake that released more energy than the sun emits in 200 millennia.

(At the time, the sun was as much as 6 % fainter than it is now, Lenton says, so the planet - warming effect of greenhouse gases wasn't as strong.)

A sun - size star approaching within 30 solar radii of the monster, they calculate, would be ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational pull, which would be far stronger on the near side of the star than on the far side.

«Most surprising is that the blast wave was still strong enough to cause significant effects in the atmosphere of Saturn, which is nearly a billion miles from the sun and has a magnetic field much larger than Earth's,» says Ed Stone of Caltech, chief scientist of NASA's Voyager program.

If gravity were a little weaker than it is, it would never have been able to crush the core of the sun sufficiently to ignite the nuclear reactions that create sunlight; a little stronger and, again, the sun would have burned all of its fuel billions of years ago.

If the strong nuclear force which glues atomic nuclei together were only a few per cent stronger than it is, stars like the sun would exhaust their hydrogen fuel in less than a second.

Surprisingly, such observations show that the sun also causes semidiurnal tides in the atmosphere, which are more than 20 times stronger, although the solar gravitational forcing is less than half that of the moon.

As they report online today in Nature Communications, superflares do seem to be produced by the same process, but they usually occur in stars with much stronger magnetic fields than the sun's.

According to the accepted view, the formation of the Earth released vast amounts of water vapour and carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.

But the catalogued planetary population has just gotten a lot larger and more diverse, thanks to word this week of a newly identified planet orbiting two suns, more than a dozen newfound «super-Earths,» and strong indications that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to an almost unfathomable number of planets awaiting discovery.

The breakthrough is in magnetic confinement fusion, in which hydrogen is heated until it is a plasma 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun, and held in place by strong magnetic fields until fusion reactions occur.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

Black holes can be anywhere from 10 to billions of times the mass of the sun, making their gravitational tug much stronger than that of a pulsar.

Luyi Sun at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and his colleagues made an artificial nacre that is 60 per cent stronger than stainless steel.

It has a mass of 1.5 the mass of the Sun concentrated in about 10 kilometers diameter object, rotates 30 times per second, and is surrounded by a region of intense magnetic field ten thousand billion times stronger than that of the Sun.

«We don't really know why it is so much stronger at Venus than Earth,» said Collinson, «but, we think it might have something to do with Venus being closer to the sun, and the ultraviolet sunlight being twice as bright.

That extra methane would have produced a greenhouse effect strong enough to heat the planet to a higher average temperature than it is today, although the Sun was around 20 percent dimmer at that time (Pavlov et al, 2000).

But radiation from the sun and cosmic rays is 100 times stronger in space than on Earth, which is protected by a layer of ozone and the Van Allen radiation belts.

When the sun first came into being, this wind was far stronger than it is today — strong enough to blast lighter elements such as hydrogen and helium away from the inner orbits.

[7] Mercury's surface is also flexed by significant tidal bulges raised by the Sun — the Sun's tides on Mercury are about 17 percent stronger than the Moon's on Earth.

Their measured value is 5 — 10 Gauss, much stronger than the average 1 Gauss strength of the principal components of the Sun's magnetic field.

«A planet in the habitable zone of a star like this would be buffeted by storms much stronger than those generated by the Sun,» added Williams.

For example, the team found that a merger of two black holes with significantly unequal masses would be a strong indication that the stars formed almost entirely from hydrogen and helium — called low - metallicity stars — with other elements contributing fewer than 0.1 percent of stellar matter (for comparison, this fraction is about 2 percent in our Sun).

But they add to the «strong, consistent evidence» that people who drink in moderation are less likely than nondrinkers or heavy drinkers to experience health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and dementia, says Qi Sun, MD, the lead author of the study and a nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.

However, because of Brazil's proximity to the equator, the sun there is stronger than average.

Astaxanthin stems from a microalgae plant and is over 14 times stronger than vitamin E and 65 times stronger than vitamin C at fending off free radicals (which cause premature aging, sun damage, etc.).

Downward dog is more than one just one part of a sun salutation — the yoga pose has a slew of health benefits, from improving mobility and flexibility to building strong bones.

It lacks the polish of similar games like House of the Dying Sun and doesn't have multiplayer dogfights like EVE: Valkyrie, but what it lacks in professional touch it more than makes up for with ambition and a strong core design principle.

Yes, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is releasing on November 17th, but it's highly doubtful it will have as strong an impact on sales as Pokémon Sun and Moon did... and that's not even taking into account that the former is bound to sell (significantly) less than the latter, since it's not a brand new entry or even a remake.

Beneath the unscrolling story of new sun and stars and then - lonely moon, she began to sing some new possessions into the interior of our house, and between the lake and the woods I heard her songs become stronger than ever before.

This story is paired with King's story, a western about Skinner Sweet, the original American Vampire — a stronger, faster creature than any vampire ever seen before with rattlesnake fangs and powered by the sun.

With home prices low in the American Sun Belt and the Canadian dollar strong, Canadians might be doing more than sunbathing during spring vacations stateside.

As Aditya Birla group has a strong reputation in the Indian market for more than 20 years, investors in India can trust upon their investment and be happy rest of their life after investing with the Birla sun life mutual fund.

Sun is much stronger on the water than on land, even when temps are cooler.

Since the moon is closer to the earth it exerts more gravitational gradient than the sun and so has a stronger effect on the world's oceans.

If Richard Alley was correct in his assessment of NH temps during the LIA, the quiet sun may play a stronger climate forcing role than GHGs for most of this century.