but in reality we are a very
tiny planet in a sea of billions of galaxies which each galaxy has billions of stars and planets.
Not exact matches
We should continue to evolve — hopefully, evolving both biologically and technologically to a point where we can leave our
tiny planet and venture out into the greater universe — there evolving
in myriad ways to survive and flourish.
We're an upstart species on
tiny planet,
in a boring solar system,
in an average galaxy among millions of galaxies.
God: Well,
in one of those of galaxies, there's one
tiny little star that has a few
planets circling around it.
Our bodily cells are only a
tiny fraction of the subhuman individuals
in existence; also each of us is but one of countless individuals on our own or perhaps higher levels (recall the billions of possibly inhabited
planets that astronomers believe exist).
There are hundreds of billions of stars
in our galaxy, each with
planets, that large of a number even if a
tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other
planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else
in our galaxy, let alone
in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of
planets.
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.
While the world we inhabit is confined to
planet earth, we know that this is only the
tiniest speck
in a universe so vast that our minds can barely imagine it.
We understand too that our earthly home is a
tiny planet spinning
in space, and that it is strictly finite and limited.
No, thanks... I'll stick with the possibility that we are part of a higher intelligence known as God and that I have somewhere to go when I die pretty much because evolution is a by product of mankind and they haven't even ventured very far
in the universe not have they even explained even the
tiniest portions of the fossile records to support the diversity of life on this
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 THER
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 THER
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 THER
in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.
As it has countless times
in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a
tiny speck of a
planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy,
in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.
In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the star
In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures
in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the star
in cycles which
in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the star
in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually
in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the star
in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our
tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.
In 2007, the
tiny Comet Holmes grew and expanded so much that the gassy diameter of the comet's coma, or atmosphere, became larger than the diameter of the sun, with particles reaching all of the
planets.
When a
planet orbits
in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a
tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.
«The diamonds have delivered these well - preserved materials to us at the surface,» says study co-author Steven Shirey, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science
in Washington, D.C. «They're a classic example of how the
tiniest bits of material can tell us big things about our
planet.»
Tiny pockets of sulfur and iron (yellow) inside a diamond (blue) inside a meteorite suggest the meteorite was once part of a long - lost
planet in the early solar system.
Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new
planets in Kepler data by searching for
tiny dips
in a star's brightness when a
planet passes
in front of it.
The
planets circle a
tiny, dim, nearby star
in tight orbits all less than 2 weeks long.
The
tiny planet cooled quickly, shrinking
in size and causing its crust to crumple up and form wrinkly ridges.
«We can't see individual continents or people
in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how
tiny our home
planet is
in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this
tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»
The
planets were discovered by the transit method, which detects potential
planets as their orbits cross
in front of their star and cause a very
tiny but periodic dimming of the star's brightness.
Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the
planet for NASA's Cassini «Wave at Saturn» event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth
in turn, as a teeny,
tiny dot of -LSB-...]
But before telescopes for prospective exoplanet - hunting missions can be designed, astronomers must know if there is a fundamental limit to their ability to see a
tiny, dim
planet next to a bright star when the system is shrouded
in dust.
Measuring the brightness of a star over time, he reasoned, would require a much smaller space telescope than trying to take a picture sharp enough to resolve a
planet or a
tiny loop
in the star's trajectory.
The
planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the
tiny gravitational tug exerted by a
planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption
in 2013.
They carefully monitored 88 selected stars
in Messier 67 [3] over a period of six years to look for the
tiny telltale motions of the stars towards and away from Earth that reveal the presence of orbiting
planets.
The
planet is just about reachable; an existing private venture claims it can get
tiny probes to Proxima b's star system
in just 20 years.
Those
planets range from the
tiny to true behemoths, but most exciting is that more Earth - sized and other smallish worlds are emerging, providing new hope for life
in the cosmos.
In these disks, dust is coalescing and
tiny chunks of rock are colliding to become larger masses of matter and, over the course of millions of years,
planets.
Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science
in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than
in our
planet's core — by squeezing them between two
tiny diamond jaws.
By measuring the times at which these transits occurred very carefully, we were able to discover that the two
planets are locked
in an intricate dance of
tiny wobbles giving away their masses.»
NANTES, FRANCE — Despite basking
in the sun's fiery glow,
tiny Mercury, the innermost
planet in our solar system, is probably home to extensive ice fields.
Models suggest that gravity clumps the dust together into
tiny pebbles that
in turn form larger rocks that eventually become
planets.
From Earth, big - dish radar can precisely measure the changing tilt of Mercury's rotation axis as well as what one of the co-authors calls «the
planet doing the twist»:
tiny changes
in its rotation speed due to solar tides.
The two methods of detecting extrasolar
planets, nicknamed «wobble and blink,» involve plotting
tiny shifts
in a star's motion caused by the gravitational tug of its orbiting
planets, and catching the slight dimming
in a star's light that occurs whenever a
planet passes between the star and an observer's telescope.
For this, TESS is relying on follow - up studies by ground - based telescopes, which can watch for
tiny periodic Doppler shifts
in the frequency of a star's light caused by an orbiting
planet tugging on it.
Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers» term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium)
in the swirling disk around them form
tiny «seeds» that attract other matter and slowly grow into
planets.
The main objective of the Kepler mission was to find
planets, which it does by detecting the periodic dimming made from a
planet moving
in front of a star, and hence blocking out a
tiny bit of starlight.
The 305 - meter Arecibo radio telescope detected
tiny variations
in the blips from a pulsar, revealing the Earth - like masses of its
planets.
Based on the distance from the central star and the distribution of
tiny dust grains, the baby
planet is thought to be an icy giant, similar to Uranus and Neptune
in our Solar System.
In the 6 years since the
tiny wobbling of a distant star betrayed the presence of the first extrasolar
planet, several teams had methodically brought the exoplanet count to 38.
That's because one way Kuiper belt objects might have formed
in situ, Parker says, is under an emerging model of
planet formation
in which turbulences and vortexes
in the protoplanetary nebula allow many
tiny particles to coalesce extremely rapidly into big ones.
In recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from u
In recent years,
planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the
tiny shifts a small
planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces
in its star, tugging it towards and away from u
in its star, tugging it towards and away from us.
The New Horizons spacecraft finally spied the dwarf
planet's two
tiniest satellites, Kerberos and Styx,
in a series of images taken from April 25 to May 1, when the probe was nearly 90 million kilometers from Pluto.
It has several
tiny moons either very close
in or far away from the
planet — most of which orbit
in the direction of the
planet's spin — and one huge one, Triton, orbiting
in the opposite direction.
The GMT aims to discover Earth - like
planets around nearby stars and the
tiny distortions that black holes cause
in the light from distant stars and galaxies.
It did this by detecting the periodic dimming made from a
planet moving
in front of a star, and hence blocking out a
tiny bit of starlight.
This is a
tiny volume of the Milky Way Galaxy, yet contains the
planets we are most likely to be able to characterize
in the future — and the
planets which mankind will be able to visit, if interstellar travel ever becomes a reality.
The spacecraft did so by staring at roughly 150,000 stars
in a celestial patch representing 1 / 400th of the sky, waiting for
tiny dips
in starlight that would signal a
planet was passing by, blocking a little bit of light.