Sentences with phrase «sun than the earth»

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

«Although Titan is ten times further from the Sun than Earth is, its upper atmosphere is still bathed in light,» says Coates.

The OSSOS project uses powerful computers to hunt the images, and Kavelaars was presented with a bright object moving at such a slow rate that it was clearly at least twice as far from Earth Neptune and 120 times further from the Sun than Earth.

Planets like Mars that orbit further out from the Sun than Earth have their liquid water locked up as ice.

The spacecraft's ion engines will bring it to a capture orbit around this 590 mile diameter dwarf planet on March 6th, 2015 — at a distance some 2.5 times further from the Sun than the Earth.

They come from the Oort Cloud, the most distant objects of our solar system — more than a thousand times farther from the Sun than Earth.

This region starts beyond Neptune and ends at a distance 55 times further from the sun than Earth is, or 55 AU.

But we've struggled to explain how a world much farther from the sun than Earth is could get so warm.

However, Venus is closer to the sun than Earth and receives far more sunlight.

With the realization that a little moon, 10 times farther from the sun than Earth, likely hosts liquid water, and that a similarly frigid object sustains an atmosphere and complex organic chemistry, scientists are dropping their preconceptions.

«Mars is much farther way from the sun than Earth, and when the sun was younger, it was not as bright as it is today,» Luo said.

Because it is so distant — 19 times farther from the sun than Earth — astronomers were able to see little detail on its surface until adaptive optics on both Keck Observatory telescopes revealed features much like those on Jupiter.

Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal.

TDI will allow Junocam to take high - quality color images in the dark conditions at Jupiter, which is over five times farther from the Sun than Earth.

Co-author Dr Chris Finlay, from the Technical University of Denmark said: «We know more about the Sun than the Earth's core.

According to a Carnegie report, that planet could be over 200 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is — which would make it five times farther from the sun from Pluto — and that it could be up to 15 times bigger than our own planet.

«Jupiter is five times farther from the sun than Earth, and the sunlight that reaches that far out packs 25 times less punch,» said Nybakken.

In our own Solar System, Pluto is about 40 times more distant from the Sun than the Earth.

Mars is further from the sun than earth, and only receives about half as much solar energy, and its atmosphere is so thin there's nothing to really heat up.

Plus, let's think about this: Pluto is more than 30 times farther away from the Sun than the Earth is.

The Moon is receiving the same amount of power from the Sun than the Earth; however:

It also receives about twice the energy from the Sun than Earth, and almost none of that energy reaches the surface.

Not exact matches

When you consider that Saturn is 750 million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing short of miraculous.

From posting facts to chew on (Did you know the Earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than the entire world uses in one year?)

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

They will tell you Galileo was never arrested, tried, and imprisonedf for verifying earlier theories that the earth revolved around the sun rather than, as religion claimed, being the center of the universe itself.

He did it simply by recognizing that the Sun rather than the Earth was the Center of our galaxy.

Less than a hundred years later, Italian Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) using the telescope, made observations that convinced him that the Copernician hypothesis of an earth revolving around the sun was true.

At one time people approved of claims such as «the world is flat», «humans can not survive at speeds greater than 25 miles per hour», «the sun revolves around the earth» but all these claims turned out to be false.

Copernicus's posthumous fame, of course, arose from his 30 - year project published soon before his death, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - a revolution indeed, in which he explained his calculations that proved that the earth and planets orbit the sun, rather than the sun and planets orbitthe earth.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

But I think there is a lot more consensus about the idea that the earth revolves around the sun since that idea came out, than that some guy walked across some water somewheres.

Lastly, I can honestly admit that if proven wrong today, tomorrow, or in the future and someone gave me empiracle evidence that god exists, that gravity is not constant on earth, that the sun IS actually revolving around us and not the other way around, I would be more than happy to revise my current view of the universe around me and change accordingly.

The statement «We breed a great variety of dogs,» which rests on direct observation, is much easier to prove than the statement that the earth goes around the sun, which requires sophisticated reasoning.

I am NOT saying that we need to worship the earth, treat animals as more important than humans, or pray to the sun and trees.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

And now we get to watch while Creationists imprison Nye in a tower until he recants his sacreligous talk much in the way Galileo was imprisoned by the Church for supporting the scientific theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun rather than the universe revolving around the Earth.

For thousands of years it insisted that the sun orbits the earth, and less than a hundred years ago it decreed that objects heavier than air could never fly.

Others, the «white dwarfs», are smaller than the earth; and still others, the most numerous category, closely resemble the sun both in their dimensions and their yellow colour.

You make me laugh, because you are no different than the «scientists» that believed the sun revolved around the earth.

Crysius continues to be beneficial to his people, and he, a ray of warmth, is dependable; but to say that he is faithful is no more appropriate than to say of the sun that it is faithful to the earth because it regularly warms our planet.

The bible says that the earth, sun and universe was created in 7 DAYS, That's not translation error, it wasn't meant to be considered periods or anything longer than 24 hour periods.

The heavens hold more stars than earth has grains Of sand, and given time, each tiny sun Combined should make a world where starlight stains The sky bright white and dark would be undone.

This canopy provided a greenhouse effect over the entire earth, protecting plants, animals, and people from the UV rays of the sun, and allowing people and animals to stay alive much longer than what is typical today.

It was Galileo who initially tested the boundaries of the Dual Revelation Theory by proposing that, contrary to the teachings of the church, the earth revolved around the sun, rather than the sun revolving around the earth.

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?

For example, we know with certainty that the Earth is roughly spherical and revolves around the Sun - not flat and at the center of the solar system, as was once erroneously believed by people in a greater state of ignorance than ours at present.

There is no more reason to «teach the controversy» about evolution than there is to teach the «controversy» surrounding whether or not the earth revolves around the sun, or whether or not the earth is flat.

Copernicus, of course, is famous for proposing that the earth rotates and orbits the sun, rather than being stationary in the center of the universe, as Aristotle had taught.

The flat earth, with the heavens a little way above, and the sun and stars shining for no other purpose than to illumine man — that picture put man at the center of everything.