Sentences with phrase «than a planet like»

Three of these planets are confirmed to be super-Earths — planets more massive than Earth, but less massive than planets like Uranus or Neptune — that are within their star's habitable zone, a thin shell around a star in which water may be present in liquid form if conditions are right.

The influence from direct radiation would be similar, but the planets with a strong magnetic field would react much differently to charge particles than a planet like Mars with a weaker field.

The influence from direct radiation would be similar, but the planets with a strong magnetic field would react much differently to charge particles than a planet like Mars with a weaker field.

Not exact matches

It encompasses aging projects in the North Sea, factory - like shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, and, oh, by the way, 43,000 gas stations ringing the planet — a larger retail network than that of either McDonald's (mcd) or Starbucks (sbux) x.

Despite the fact he isn't playing in this year's Masters, and isn't incredibly active on social media (less than 500 tweets, like ever), Woods» # 2 ranking proves that he is by far, the most popular golfer on the planet.

I hope my work will, like Hawking's did for me, spur readers to look up at the night sky (preferably in the middle of nowhere) and see more than «just» moons, planets, stars, and galaxies.

Christians are the minority on this planet AND there are a lot more atheists than you might think (most of us don't push it on others like SOME christians do).

I think my life has been far better than the majority of the planet, although like everyone, there are things that make me sad or angry.

You mean like Obama spewing more carbon than anyone on the planet, although he once stated that global warming is the most dire threat to mankind's existence?

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Like you get to be Kings and Gods of your own planets after you die, oh, wait, that's already taken by the Mormons... but seriously, why are you so self centered to think you get to live on even though your life span is no greater than that of some tortoises (in fact one tortoise named Hanako lived to the very ripe age of 226 years).

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable planets.

HawaiiGuest, I'm guessing that people like Sally can not fathom that more than one person disagrees with her out of the seven billion on this planet.

The human male is the strongest, smartest animal there is on the planet, he's definitely stronger and smarter than the female of the species... so if man is like a god on this planet, then that must mean that God must have made man in HIS image.

The idea that one needs a sky daddy who threatens eternal damnation in order to behave like a civilized and decent human being has caused more bloodshed and misery than any other idea on the planet.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Newton explained many things and allowed us to calculate the orbits of planets with his laws of motion, yet his idea of a static universe was wrong - like wise Einstein with his energy equation for many years thought / claimed the universe was static rather than dynamic.

Vain words like claiming to know more about life on this planet and how the universe began than the scientists with the highest IQs do?

Not to mention, as Nil Zacharias, Co-Founder of One Green Planet so aptly pointed out, we treat the world's oceans more like a toilet bowl than a sustainable food source.

Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!

To say I dislike Mark Hughes would be like describing the size of the planet Jupiter as being bigger than a dog.

I like this pail liner more than my more expensive planet wise one.

Many parents know waterproof or «wet» bags like Planet Wise Wet Bags can be used for more than just cloth diapers; store hand towels to wipe sticky faces or hands, toss in a few rags for wiping messes, and / or dry clothes for quick changes after a day of swimming.

Just because I use a video or article that best explains things, that just means I'd rather let someone else who KNOWS what they're talking about tell you rather than look like an idiot, just cuz I'm not the most eloquent person on the planet

«I, honestly, would like nothing more than to assist in the wholesale slaughter of every idiot on the face of the planet,» Senior Airman Travis Gruber, of Sacramento, Calif., writes on the site, HowToKillPeople.com.

Like any thinktank director, there is much more to the job than just pontificating about the state of the planet.

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

Astronomers conducting a galactic census of planets in the Milky Way now suspect most of the universe's habitable real estate exists on worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, which are smaller but far more numerous than stars like our Sun.

«I would like to be surprised — and I'm hopeful — but I'm not sure we'll find planets closer to Earth twins than the objects we present in our paper.»

According to the data obtained from the stellar occultation, the ring lies on the equatorial plane of the dwarf planet, just like its biggest satellite, Hi'iaka, and it displays a 3:1 resonance with respect to the rotation of Haumea, which means that the frozen particles which compose the ring rotate three times slower around the planet than it rotates around its own axis.

First, planets like our own orbit relatively close to their stars, where bright illumination more than compensates for the nearby glare.

Planet hunters have found more than 130 extrasolar planets, but nearly all are bloated gas giants like Jupiter.

Among the 1,900 - and - counting confirmed alien planets found so far, we've seen everything from bizarro, jumbo versions of Jupiter in scorchingly tight orbits to exoplanets dozens of times farther out than Neptune, and even worlds circling two stars, like Tatooine in Star Wars.

The closest single star like the sun — Tau Ceti, 12 light - years away — may harbor five planets slightly more massive than Earth.

«But if you come up with a strict scientific definition, you either end up with eight planets — Pluto would not make it — or a lot, like more than 20.»

Many planets outside the solar system are even more massive than Jupiter, and they orbit their Sun - like stars at an Earth - like distance, but these faraway super-Jupiters are effectively giant gas balls that can not support life because they lack solid surfaces.

If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler - 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red - wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth.

A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth - like planets orbiting stars other than the sun.

For a lot less than $ 1 trillion, with just a little more technology development, I think we could figure out how to tell the difference between a Venus - like planet and an Earth - like one.

«We may find other candidates perhaps even better than this one, but for now Proxima b offers a best - case scenario for imaging and studying a potentially Earth - like planet within the next decade.»

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

These are large gas giants that look a little like the planet Jupiter in our solar system, although they are much hotter as they circle their star in a very tight orbit: about a hundred times closer than our Jupiter is to the sun.

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

«Understanding the universe in its totality interests me more than looking for life on a planet like Earth around a star like the sun, which is the declared goal of our competitors.

A FAULT on NASA's Kepler spacecraft means it may take a little longer than we had hoped to find an Earth - like planet.

A habitable planet around Alpha Centauri would appear approximately 10 billion times dimmer than either of the system's Sun - like stars.

For less than $ 50 million, the effort's planners say, a telescope small enough to fit in the trunk of a compact car could launch by the end of the decade on a historic mission to image another Earth - like planet.

Early in its mission, Kepler managed to find some tantalizing worlds, a handful of supersize cousins of Earth, most of them in clement orbits around smaller, cooler, quieter stars than the sun called M and K dwarfs, but all the setbacks made finding smaller Earth - sized planets around sun - like G stars a very tall order.

Vogt's group, led by Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley, has already detected more than 100 planets this way, but the tugs produced by small, Earth - like worlds are particularly elusive.