Sentences with phrase «trillions of light years»

It says that we're only a tiny blip in the Universe — an inconsequential mote in the outer spiral arm of a conventional spiral galaxy trillions of light years wide.

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Meanwhile, Vega lies trillions of times farther away at 25 light - years.

Swapping Trillion $ of fraud certificates and then playing a game, suggesting that QE is ending is somewhat of a paradox or conundrum, especially in light of the tsunami of Treasury auctions and the flood of new debt, on top of 11 years of accounting fraud.

For example, the seeming unlimited number of galaxies (with each containing anywhere from an estimated 10 to 500 billion stars) and the precise order that exists within the universe, and the shear distance between stars (an average about 4.2 light years or about 25 trillion miles), has caused some to stop and look in awe.

In this particular quasar, the water vapor is distributed around the black hole in a gaseous region spanning hundreds of light - years in size (a light - year is about six trillion miles).

A galaxy 12.5 billion light - years away gives off the light of 300 trillion suns, because its feeding black hole produces enough heat to set the whole galaxy's dust glowing.

19 Sure enough, astronomers found vast quantities of ethanol — as much as that in 400 trillion trillion beers — in G34.3, an interstellar cloud some 10,000 light - years from Earth.

Of all the countless photons of light that leave an Earth - size planet each second, only one or two would make it to a three - foot - wide mirror 40 light - years, or about 250 trillion miles, awaOf all the countless photons of light that leave an Earth - size planet each second, only one or two would make it to a three - foot - wide mirror 40 light - years, or about 250 trillion miles, awaof light that leave an Earth - size planet each second, only one or two would make it to a three - foot - wide mirror 40 light - years, or about 250 trillion miles, away.

The quasar, with its central black hole mass of 12 billion solar masses and the luminosity of 420 trillion suns, is at a distance of 12.8 billion light - years from Earth.

It's believed to be making its first trip to the inner solar system from the Oort Cloud — a vast, roughly spherical storehouse of trillions of frozen cometary nuclei — that lies more than a tenth of a light - year from the Sun.

It is almost 100 billion light years across and consists of of billions of galaxies and trillions of stars.

Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, typically containing several million to some trillion stars, of masses between several million and several trillion times that of our Sun, of an extension of a few thousands to several 100,000 s light years, typically separated by millions of light years distance.

The planet, located about 4.2 light - years from Earth, or 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km), is the closest of some 3,500 planets that have been discovered beyond the solar system since 1995, according to the paper.

These comets are observed to come into the Solar System from all directions, which implies an immense spherical cloud of trillions of small icy, planetary objects — all potentially active but currently dormant comets — that extend as much as two light - years outward from Sol.

Still, the closest rogue black hole should reside thousands of light - years away — where one light - year is the distance light travels in a year — about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).

It's defined by how far a beam of light travels in one year — a distance of six trillion miles.

The authors found that U.S. cars and light trucks were driven 2.6 trillion miles in 2004 with an average fuel economy of 19.6 miles per gallon, and they conclude that American vehicles are driven more each year and on average burn more fuel than cars in other countries.