Sentences with phrase «than the sun in»

The ancients thought the moon was more powerful as the moon looked bigger than the sun in the firmament.

In our solar system, for instance, Earth is 10 billion times fainter than the sun in terms of visible light.

Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 «exoplanets» and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets.

But because the coronagraphs have to block out an area slightly larger than the sun itself in order to prevent too much light from leaking in, there is a ring of space around the sun that neither set of instruments looks at.

Because there are many planets that are lighter (longer in length of life) than the Sun in the universe.

Astronomers find evidence of enormous black hole one hundred thousand times more massive than the sun in a gas cloud near the galaxy's centre.

Seriously, nothing is worse than the sun in your eyes when you're trying to explore.

But I'm puzzled why big lasers would be needed, especially ground - based ones — how much brighter than the Sun in the designated wavelength would some such installation have to be, to be doing anything more than sunlight does now?

Not exact matches

I was getting ready to go into rehearsals for A Raisin in the Sun and, if you can believe it, I was making more money in rehearsals than the average basketball player at the time.

In many ways, James Sun is emblematic of today's tech entrepreneur: He's scarily young (21), fluent in business jargon and running a company that's baffling to anyone older than 3In many ways, James Sun is emblematic of today's tech entrepreneur: He's scarily young (21), fluent in business jargon and running a company that's baffling to anyone older than 3in business jargon and running a company that's baffling to anyone older than 30.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Some opposition lawmakers oppose the deal, saying Murdoch, the owner of The Times and The Sun newspapers, would wield too much power if he had full control of a pay - TV group present in more than 12 million British and Irish homes.

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?)

Jupiter is about 0.001 as massive than the sun, but it's sizeable enough that both the sun and Jupiter orbit that point in space.

Sun TV News, though it has yet to launch, has already drawn comparisons to the Fox News Channel in the U.S. Roughly two - thirds of the respondents, however, believe Sun TV News will have less impact in Canada than Fox News has had in the U.S. «I'm as conservative as it gets in this country, but the Fox News network is designed for a constituency that is just not widespread in Canada.»

Teneycke insists Sun Media «will have more people wearing multiple hats than anyone else in the Canadian media.»

In an eclipse, the sun's energy will ramp down much faster than it would even on a cloudy day.

The fundraising round comes less than two months after Reuters reported Sun Basket hired bankers for an initial public offering in the back half of this year.

His ultimate goal is to make the kits Sun Basket sells more nimble in terms of customization (letting customers pick and choose more ingredients than typically allowed in a meal kit).

Disgraced top Communist cadre Sun Zhengcai has admitted taking bribes of more than $ 27m in a video confession televised on state broadcaster CCTV this week.

A 2013 Vestrics study examined responses from more than 830 mentees and some 670 mentors participating in Sun Microsystem's program.

A place in the sun Photovoltaic (PV) panels installed throughout the campus divert more than 600 metric tons of carbon each year, equivalent to removing 125 cars from the road annually.

«We are far enough from Vancouver and the mountains to get much more sun, but close enough that commuting into work isn't an issue,» says Myron, who has lived in the community for more than two decades.

They're also advised to avoid flying when the sun is having a solar particle event, which can deliver a higher dose of radiation in one flight than is recommended for the entirety of a pregnancy.

These stars, which are more than 4 billion years younger the the sun, regularly pulsate in brightness.

Founded by billionaire Sun Hongbin, the company has expanded quickly to more than 44 cities in 2016 from four in 2011, according to Bloomberg.

Sun Life provides health benefits coverage to more than three million Canadians and their families, or one in six Canadians.

www.huroncapital.com American Securities is in «advanced talks» to acquire Emerald Performance Materials LLC, a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio - based specialty chemicals company, from Sun Capital Partners for more than $ 1 billion, according to Reuters.

In recent years the search for yield has left many investors feeling like travelers lost in the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of wateIn recent years the search for yield has left many investors feeling like travelers lost in the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of watein the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of watein the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of watein hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of water.

More than simple fun - in - the - sun rewards, these trips are designed to engage employees in their work by familiarizing them with new destinations and checking up on popular locales — all based on itineraries the company offers clients.

In its first year of business, Sun Pharma generated more than $ 100,000 in sales, and in 1994 the company went public on the Bombay Stock ExchangIn its first year of business, Sun Pharma generated more than $ 100,000 in sales, and in 1994 the company went public on the Bombay Stock Exchangin sales, and in 1994 the company went public on the Bombay Stock Exchangin 1994 the company went public on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

For example, iQiyi bought the exclusive rights to stream Korean drama Descendants of the Sun in China in 2016, which later brought more than 1 billion views to iQiyi.

Many China politics experts and some party insiders attribute the downfall of Sun Zhengcai to his reputation as a possible leader whose rise and allegiances lay in his ties to senior party figures other than Mr. Xi.

The Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center is a non-profit hospital that has more than 400 beds and is the eighth largest in the Sun City West valley.

Another story in The Sun, about racial covenants in Rodgers Forge («Residents of Towson neighborhood confront racist legacy of covenants,» Sept. 10) was significant because, repeatedly, new residents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in Baltimore City.

Although the sun is at a similar angle in September and October, electricity demand is still relatively high, leading to lower solar generation shares than seen in March.

NIF is expected to achieve temperatures and densities almost an order of magnitude greater than those in the sun's core and pressures far in excess of those at the core of Jupiter.

He said the following about Sun's peak valuation in 2000 (it was one of the stocks trading at more than ten times sales at the time):

For example, Alibaba and Cainiao have teamed up with Suning, a top electronics retailer with more than 1,600 stores in 289 Chinese cities, to leverage the latter's nationwide network of 57 regional distribution centers.

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

Every pension fund under the sun in this country — because rates are so low — has monthly negative outflows of cash: beneficiaries are being paid more money than is flowing into the fund.

Launched in 2011, Sun News Network describes itself as «unapologetically patriotic» and «less politically correct» than other TV networks.

At the same time, while the sun is shining we are seeing more clouds accumulating on the horizon than we did back in October 2017.

Last year's event at Idaho's Sun Valley Resort attracted more than 300 executives in the media, finance, politics and technology spaces...

Suning had more than 1,600 outlets in about 290 cities in China selling appliances, books and baby products as of August last year.

Suning will provide enhanced after - sales services by setting up Tmall service stations in more than 1,600 Suning stores across China.

While the logo script remains relatively unchanged, it now appears against a sun as it rises behind a farmer's field — a real departure from the previous black box logo and the first major design change for the company in more than 50 years.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

Furthermore, since, as is self - evidently apparent, the classes of beings are, at a command, in motion in a fashion a thousand times more well - ordered than that of an army, each group, from the stars, sun and moon and their motions to the flowers of the almond, displaying the decorations and uniforms the Pre-Eternal All - Powerful One has conferred on it, and the motion He has determined, in a way a thousand times more regular and perfect than that of an army — since this is so, the universe has an Absolute Ruler behind the veil of the Unseen, and its beings look to and conform to His command.

Then in 1920 — less than 100 years ago — Edwin Hubble showed the Sun as only one of many non-centric objects in the Universe.