Sentences with phrase «time near a star»

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Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

The concept of a child born of a virgin birth, on or near the 25th of December, with a bright star in the east, including the three kings, who died and was resurrected three days later, is a story that has been told numerous time BEFORE the story of Jesus was even a thought in anyone's head.

Arsenal are haggling over new contracts for our two star players, but yet again, they don't mind giving a new contract, worth a lot of money, to a player that's never been that good, hasn't even played for a long time, near the end of his career, and who is probably our fourth / fifth choice CB.

With All - Star point guard Chris Paul missing significant time with various injuries, Crawford has filled in without his team losing stride as they near the finish line.

After the All - Star break, Nellie told me my playing time was going to be cut, that he was going to play veterans more as we neared the playoffs.

He could be joined at United by Southampton star Morgan Schneiderlin in the near future as van Gaal is reportedly keen on a brand new central midfield partnership and is hopeful of tying up a deal for the 25 - year - old in time for the club's pre-season tour of the United States [via talkSPORT].

To measure the albedo of WASP - 12b the scientists observed the exoplanet in October 2016 during an eclipse, when the planet was near full phase and passed behind its host star for a time.

These stars have puffed up to several times their normal size because they have exhausted their nuclear fuel and are near the end of their lives.

The density of stars near the centre is a hundred million times as great as it is in the neighbourhood of the Sun, says Ted Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Kitt Peak, Arizona.

As relatively small stars (those less than ten times the mass of our sun) near the end of their lives, they throw off their outer layers and become white dwarf stars, which are very dense.

If two neutron stars were to merge in a nearby galaxy, the resulting wave would squish and stretch the space - time near Earth by about a millionth of the diameter of an atom as it passed through us.

With a radius about 900 times that of the sun, Betelgeuse is a monstrous star that is nearing its end.

These so - called hyper - luminous starburst galaxies are exceedingly rare at this epoch of cosmic history — near the time when galaxies first formed — and may represent one of the most - extreme examples of violent star formation ever observed.

Stars can grow no bigger than 150 times as massive as our sun, according to a study of the dazzling «Arches» cluster near the center of our galaxy — shown here in an artist's impression.

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

Though the light from the nearest galaxy takes about 3 million years to reach Earth, what we see is a relatively recent picture, considering that a sunlike star lives almost 3,500 times longer than that.

He points out that it would take light some five years to travel even to the nearest star and back, adding that the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way (Andromeda — one of the «spiral nebulae», as he calls them) is more than several hundred thousand times as far away as the nearest stars.

Try to spot the comet low in the southeast around 5 a.m. local time on Nov. 17 or 18, when it passes near the bright star Spica.

By the time totality occurs, the sky is ablaze with stars; if totality occurs near the peak of a meteor shower, the dark - red moon can be surrounded by shooting stars for the duration of totality.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that of the dozen or so single stars nearest the sun nearly half appear to have dark companions with a mass between one and 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

It spends much of its time monitoring the light from around 60 of the nearest ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs («stars» which are not quite massive enough to initiate sustained nuclear fusion in their cores), looking for evidence of planetary transits.

Further inspection revealed that the star was trailing a tail of material some 13 light - years long — or more than three times the distance between the sun and Proxima Centauri, its nearest neighbor.

The light from 51 Eridani b is very faint; its nearest star is 3 million times brighter.

That, in turn, would shave the time needed to travel to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, from tens of thousands of years to perhaps five.

The two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford (WA) and Livingston (LA), and the Virgo detector, near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars for the first time.

Einstein's theory states that time and space are not absolute but relative: time runs faster in high altitudes but slower at fast velocities, as can be measured in the mountains or with satellite clocks; and space can be curved by the gravity of large masses, as was proven in the 1919 solar eclipse when star positions near the Sun seemed to have «shifted», but in reality only the light rays had been curved by the Sun's mass.

Even during the time of this nearest approach, however, the apparent magnitude of Alpha Centauri will still not surpass that of Sirius, which will brighten incrementally over the next 60,000 years, and will continue to be the brightest star as seen from Earth for the next 210,000 years.

We present results based on near - infrared polarimetric observations towards the central $ \ sim $ 8» $ \ times $ 8» area of the star - forming region RCW57A which hosts an Hii region, a filament, and a bipolar bubble.

The nearest star, by contrast, is 277,000 times as far as the Earth is from the Sun, a staggering thirty nine trillion nine hundred billion kilometers from home.

Material that has been on or near the surface of the star for some time gradually cools relative to the upcoming material, causing it to slide down closer to the core, where it is once again heated, with the process beginning anew.

The Star - Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) will be a 6U CubeSat devoted to photometric monitoring of M stars in the far - UV and near - UV, measuring the time - dependent spectral slope, intensity and evolution of M dwarf stellar UV radiation.

A six - inch diameter deformable mirror with 349 actuators is then used to correct for these aberrations at a rate of 1,000 times per second, effectively taking the twinkle out of the stars and providing near - perfect detail for planets, stars and galaxies.

However, in comparison with the solar case, the FIR photosphere of alpha Cen A appears marginally cooler, Tmin = T160mu = 3920 + / -375 K. Beyond the minimum near 160mu, the brightness temperatures increase and this radiation likely originates in warmer regions of the chromosphere of alpha Cen A. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time a temperature minimum has been directly measured on a main - sequence star other than the Sun.

And if you're interested specifically in the still - single reality stars from the TV show, Harrison told the L.A. Times there might be Bachelor or Bachelorette contestants becoming members in the near future.

Showtime Boxing: Boxing's biggest star, undefeated Eight - Time and Five - Division World Champion Floyd «Money» Mayweather and undefeated Mexican superstar and Unified Super Welterweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez are taking their larger - than - life star status on the road and coming to a city near you.

This isn't the first time that this story has been made into a feature - length film, with the first instance coming near the height of the murder case's popularity in the 1981 made - for - TV movie, The People vs. Jean Harris, starring Ellen Burstyn (who makes a cameo appearance in this 2005 film).

Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm «s Star Wars: The Last Jedi drew in a near - record $ 220 million in the domestic box office, the second - highest opening weekend of all time behind 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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In light of Star Trek 3: The Search for More Time's production woes, let's take a took back at some other notable sequels that also had a hell of time getting to a theater near Time's production woes, let's take a took back at some other notable sequels that also had a hell of time getting to a theater near time getting to a theater near you.

Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith and Tim Robbins star in the film set in a near - future time of artificial intelligence.

The original title was to be «The Vengeance of Khan», but this was changed because the second sequel to Star Wars (then titled «Revenge of the Jedi») was to be released near the same time.

Nanjiani stars as, essentially, himself (a Pakistani immigrant working as a comedian in New York) who falls for a girl (Zoe Kazan) and then begins spending all his time with her out - of - towner parents (Ray Romano and Holly Hunter) when she is diagnosed with a near - fatal medical condition.

As Star Wars: The Force Awakens nears 2 billion dollars worldwide (it will be the third film to do so if it happens), it's a great time to check out what is known to be a major influence on the popular franchise.

The «Star Wars» theatrical universe was once a near - religious trilogy, but with Disney now leading the way, it won't stop expanding any time soon.

From a business perspective, though, it's understandable that Paramount would want to cast a wider net with Star Trek Beyond, especially since the competition during Summer 2016 is going to be fierce - with films like the Ghostbusters reboot and Bourne 5 playing in theaters near the same time as Beyond (while sci - fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence will have opened a month earlier).

The movie's $ 3.25 million opening weekend and $ 7.2 M final domestic gross put it near the bottom of each of its stars» all - time box office records.

With Solo: A Star Wars Story near enough upon us - and critical consensus being shockingly good, after a deeply underwhelming build - up - it's time, once again, to start looking to the future.

Near the end of my demo time with the game, I experienced an introductory miniboss battle starring Bowser Junior.