Sentences with phrase «than stars closer»

Stars farther from the galactic center unexpectedly appear to move more slowly than stars closer in.

Not exact matches

As the decade draws to a close, there is no single entrepreneur who is a faster - rising star than Tony Hseih.

An enduring puzzle about exoplanets, Phys.org writes, is why they are often much closer to their stars than the planets in our own solar system.

Interestingly, the three stars that comprise Orion's belt appear to be closer together than the outer stars in the constellation, but are actually farther apart!

Beyond the deepest heaven and the farthest star, yet closer than our own breathing, lies the ultimate majesty who commanded and thereby created them — the One fixed their bounds which can not be passed.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Update (Feb. 27): The Star - Ledger takes a closer look at the decision, noting the eight refugees — including a few who have been living at the church for more than one year — are part of a group of 80 Indonesians seeking asylum in the area, as well as the status of a congressional bill that would resolve their situation.

With more than a dozen artisanal coffee roasters, close to 20 brew pubs and a restaurant scene that embraces experimentation and clever reuse of the city's existing architecture, Salt Lake has secured its place as one of the gastronomic stars of the West.

Without Sanchez, it will take a lot to lift the spirit of the team because no one currently is close enough to his quality and style and the difficulty to win matches will amplify more than it does for those other teams without their star men at the moment.

There are NO other teams in the league that have accomplished anything close to what the Sixers did this year who had their best players be a rookie and a 2nd year player, some of the teams that Philly is most often compared to in regards to young talent are Minnesota (they won less games than Philly, Wiggins sucks, and they were buoyed by Jimmy Butler as a veteran star) and the Lakers (most people don't view anybody on the Lakers on the same level as Embiid or Simmons and they only won 35 games this year).

In case you needed a reminder of why Chris Paul is a closer challenger to LeBron James and Kevin Durant for MVP than you might think, that's exhibit A. However, don't blame Blake Griffin, an All - Star starter yet again, for the swoon, because he's been playing inspired basketball.

People have downplayed the 2012 class because it was initially so hyped and it turns out only Anthony Davis is a sure thing, but look closer and there are more potential stars here than just about any class you'll ever see.

If 1995 did yield one pitching star other than Neagle it was closer Dan Miceli, who complements an above - average heater with a knuckle - curve.

It is not likely to get any easier for the Costa Rica international star Joel Campbell to force his way into the Arsenal first team, with our flying England forward Theo Walcott getting closer to full match fitness and his two international team mates Danny Welbeck and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain giving Arsene Wenger better striking options than we have had for many a year.

But Hayward's addition pushes Boston slightly closer than before, and they still have assets galore that they can cash in on if another star becomes available.

If the ufc wants him to be a star then whats better than for him to destroy an asshole who is close to a title fight

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They had one of the best seasons in recent history last year when they racked up 120 points, 11 more than the next closest team, the Stars.

Almost all of the Pac - 12 is closer to the West Coast's hotbeds than schools from other conferences are; Nick Saban's coaches have to travel 2,000 miles to swipe from high school star - studded Los Angeles, but only 600 to invade longtime Big 12 stronghold Dallas.

Having come close to winning the league just over a year back, the Merseyside club will face an uphill task just to reach the Champions League again as a result of which it's star players would seek greener pastures sooner rather than later.

When their closest rivals, namely Benfica and Sporting (who also have to sell players to be sustainable), sell their stars they are visibly affected, while for Porto the transition is absolutely seamless more often than not.

Gervinho was the closest, but compared to recent seasons we have a settled squad, and any decent additions would be exactly that, rather than replacements for the stars on their way out.

Argentine star playmaker Nicolas Gaitan is closer than ever to a move to Premiership, but even though Arsenal trailed the

But as seen here, all eight planets» orbits are packed closer to their star than Earth is to the sun.

But because a red dwarf is dimmer overall than our Sun, a planet in the habitable zone would have to orbit much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun.

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

Because the Hubble telescope's view is not blurred by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere, it should be possible to use it to pick out stars far closer to the galaxy's centre than is possible from the ground, and measure their spectra.

Van Eylen's planets matched the second picture: The largest of the rocky planets nestled close to the stars were bigger than the distant ones.

To reach the potentially habitable planet Proxima b, these «photogravitational» assists counterintuitively require first sending the light sail swooping blisteringly close to the bright, sunlike stars Alpha Centauri A and B — even though they are nearly two trillion kilometers farther from us than Proxima b's smaller, dimmer host star, Proxima Centauri.

The skinny black line on a plot of stellar rotation speed versus distance was expected to go down — stars close to the galactic center should orbit faster than stars at the edge because all the mass concentrated at the center of the galaxy pulls most powerfully on the closest stars.

55 Cancri's innermost planet, weighing in at more than 10 earth masses — meaning it could have a rocky or icy core — lies closer to its star than Mercury does to our own.

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

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

The incoming stars are much farther apart than our neighbors in the Milky Way's disk, so it's unlikely that any will venture very close to the sun.

And there are certainly alien star systems that are closer to us than that.

While the two closest planets could have lost 15 times as much water as is in all of Earth's oceans, the third planet — still closer to the star than the habitable zone — might have lost less than one ocean, they reported in the January Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The billion - dollar Solar Probe Plus, tentatively slotted for launch in 2018, would skim the outer atmosphere — or corona — of the sun itself, repeatedly dipping within five solar diameters of the sun's surface, far closer than any probe has ever approached our star.

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.

The predecessor star was a bit closer to us than Eta Carinae but far smaller.

The planet, 51 Pegasi b, was half as massive as Jupiter, but its 4 - day orbit was impossibly close to the star, far smaller than the 88 - day orbit of Mercury.

To avoid looking too close either to the sun or to Earth, Corot has to turn 180 degrees twice a year, which is why it can't look longer than five months at one set of stars.

But these planets are crowded much closer to their stars than the worlds in our solar system, adding a wrinkle to our theories of how planets form and evolve.

Such speedy planets would be huddled closer to their stars than Mercury is to the sun.

The exoplanet (a planet in another solar system) is about six times the mass of Jupiter and orbits about 40 percent closer to its star, dubbed HD 102272, than Earth does around the sun.

Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close - up here: One is a yellow - white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.

All three are closer to their host stars than the habitable zone where liquid water could exist.

Our solar system may have started out with several planets packed closer to the sun than Mercury, much like the planets we see around other stars

With WISE, we may even find a brown dwarf closer to us than our closest known star.»

I'm thinking it could have gotten there if there used to be stars a lot closer than they are now and those stars affected Sedna on the outer part of its orbit and then later on moved away.

Thirteen billion years ago, those same stars were nearly 13 billion light - years closer to us, but they were no more visible then than they are now.