Sentences with phrase «system formed about»

At the time our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, only about 39 % of the hydrogen and helium in our galaxy had collapsed into clouds that then evolved into stars, they say.

Not exact matches

I've written about it ad nauseam before — in the form of grocery pick - up systems, healthy eating subscriptions, and meal prep services — but I really hate grocery shopping.

«It's very sad and I'm very conscious that this woman's family has suffered a tremendous loss, but if you think about the industry, it's the safest form of transportation ever built and it's done nothing but improve,» said John Cox, a former airline pilot who is now president of consulting company Safety Operating Systems.

News bits include stories about Google possibly building its own smart display, controlling the Nest Secure system through Google Assistant, Sigfox doing a deal with Louis Vuitton, and enabling devices to use emotion as a form of contextual insight.

Topher, I think Joey is talking about the relative probability of life also forming elsewhere in this vast universe, not necessarily saying that aliens seeded the earth — although it is possible that life formed elsewhere in the solar system and came to earth via meteors etc..

A family is a system where children form their earliest impressions about relationships and themselves.

He may have been the first to recognize that a centralized system of the legends, songs, stories, (what we call entertainment, as well what we call information) forms a compelling mythology reaching every home and confers power that kings, emperors, and popes could only dream about.

It is a problem that holistic approaches to biology such as general systems theory have been most interested in, and it is the problem that prompted C. Lloyd Morgan to speculate about forms of relatedness.

It means that the earth on which we live is not the center of the physical universe, but a comparatively small planet revolving round a very average - sized star, which in turn is but one of a hundred thousand million others forming the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that part of the universe that our existing telescopes have so far penetrated contains about a hundred million star systems or nebulae, similar to our galaxy.

Members of the public who attend the full - day Good Food Festival programming have the opportunity to learn directly from experienced farmers and gardeners through long - form DIY workshops and «Good Food Commons» mini-sessions; hear from thought leader panelists about the future of our agricultural system; watch cooking demos, emphasizing local food, by culinary leaders such as Frontera's Rick Bayless and One Off Hospitality's Paul Kahan (both past recipients of FamilyFarmed's Good Food Chef of the Year Award); and engage with more than 150 farmer, food business, and nonprofit exhibitors.

And I am confident that all of the initiatives being formed around the world will spread and set precedence for the way we think about Food Systems in the future, and impact the choices we make.

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That statement obviously begs the question as to why he didn't change to this system earlier when we were going through our awful run of form, but there is no point in talking about «what ifs» after the event.

I left the ground utterly unable to form a coherent feeling about what I'd just witnessed and if you can manage to tear down any innate tribalism from your system and are still ravaged by several conflicting emotions, you know you've been to an odd match.

Upon completion of the course (usually about an hour), I will provide the required IDOT form stating that you have voluntarily participated in the course and received instruction on proper use of your child restraint system.

The formed plastic seats are about 13 inches wide by 14 inches tall by 12 inches deep and have a grey three - point child restraint strap system.

But how can a democracy function effectively if the population are not educated about the political system, and thus don't know which form of government best represents them, or which form of government is in their best interests?

However, it switched to a form of all - member ballots in 2014, although the system has not yet been used and questions remain about its operation.

Firstly, PR is not a single system, whereas AV is, so that statement isn't necessarily true — for one thing, it depends on what form of PR you are talking about.

I am thinking about this particular form of proportional representation for a parliamentary system and I am wondering if it has been used before.

Clarkstown Supervisor and former Assemblyman Alexander Gromack was paid about $ 10,000 to refer customers to Richard Brega Jr. — a local businessman who runs the county's bus system — but failed to report the work on his Rockland County ethics forms.

«Is there not now a case for asking voters themselves about what kind of electoral systems can best contribute to different forms of politics and what they want to see from our political system in this country?»

About StudentsFirstNY Formed in April 2012, StudentsFirstNY with more than 150,000 members, is New York State's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

«That would mean that this is a really rare system at an early stage of formation,» said Binder, «and we could learn a lot about how massive stars form and die by continuing to study this unique pairing.»

The cam system has been completely overhauled for a silky smooth draw that is all about form.

«We've previously understood very little about how these bacteria move through and into our organs, tissues, and central nervous system, but our work sheds light on these processes and could form the basis for novel therapeutics that target the bacterium's ability to invade.»

Previously, I've written about the potential for a future smart grid, where homes with solar panels and batteries intelligently interconnect to form a cleaner, more - robust distributed power system.

To find out, Jian Ge of the University of Florida in Gainesville and colleagues built a computer simulation of the system, which showed that moon - sized protoplanets — the precursors to larger worlds — could indeed form after about a million years.

TrES - 4 and other oddball planets among the 250 or so discovered in the past 12 years are challenging, even revolutionizing, astronomers» assumptions about how planets and planetary systems form.

In 2014, Weiss» group analyzed other ancient meteorites that formed within the solar system's first 2 to 3 million years, and found evidence of a magnetic field that was about 10 - 100 times stronger — about 5 - 50 microtesla.

While most of them are in a stable state, just like Saturn's rings, a handful are seen to change, and it is those systems that can tell us something about how these rings are formed.»

Laurence Garvie can't stop thinking about the rock that's still out there, the one he doesn't have, the specimen that might explain how the solar system formed or even the origin of life on Earth.

Because comets contain material from when the sun and planets formed, Rosetta can answer questions about the evolution of the solar system and the origin of water (and possibly life) on Earth.

Cassini scientists hope that studying these differences will tell us about how giant planets form, how weather systems work under different conditions, and what planets around other stars might be like.

That could be crucial to learning much more: Jupiter was likely the first planet to form around the sun, so its inner workings — particularly the nature of its core and how heat trickles out from the planet's abyssal depths — may offer hints about how other planets came to be, both in our solar system and around other stars.

Enormous projects such as ENCODE (for humans and mice) or modENCODE (for other lab model systems, such as the fly Drosophila or the worm C. elegans) have been devoted to collecting these data in order to analyse and interpret them in the framework of genomic data and to form hypotheses about functions and relations.

Discovering details about far - flung planets across the universe gives us more clues as to how planets in our own solar system formed.

«Normally when people talk about stars with planets forming, they're often talking about a system that's a billion years old,» Greaves says.

The experts calculated that the two stars which are the shortest distance apart form a stable double system, while the other two stars which are further apart will be catapulted into space after about half a million years.

The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

Comets contain samples of some of the oldest material in the solar system, and can therefore tell us about how planets were formed in our sun's youth.

This finding supports model predictions about how two - and three - star systems form by University of Massachusetts Amherst astrophysicist Stella Offner.

About 4.6 billion years ago, a cloud of dust and gas began clumping together to form the sun and planets of our solar system.

In fact, it's a representation of the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of several elements important to life on Earth; information about DNA; a representation of the human form; a graphic of the solar system; and a graphic of the transmitting telescope.

Those techniques would allow him to simulate the conditions deep inside the solar system's planets as they began forming about 4.6 billion years ago.

«The same way we use comets to better understand planet formation in our own Solar System, maybe this curious object can tell us more about how planets form in other systems.»

«Explaining the Moon's volatile depletion has been a long - standing mystery, and yet it is a key piece of evidence about how the Earth - Moon system formed,» said Dr. Robin Canup, associate vice president in SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division and lead author of the Nature Geoscience paper detailing the findings.

The Solar System was also formed in this way about 4.6 billion years ago, and life was eventually born on Earth.

Another is the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab's Stardust@home project (stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), which has recruited about 30,000 volunteers to scour, via the Internet, microscope images of interstellar dust particles collected from the tail of a comet that may hold clues to how the solar system formed.

Scholz's star is actually a binary system formed by a small red dwarf, with about 9 % of the mass of the Sun, around which a much less bright and smaller brown dwarf orbits.