Sentences with phrase «way around the planet»

I like that the end of the world is going to work its way around the planet starting at the international date line.

It is unclear if it reaches all the way around the planet.

Fingers of thick haze thousands of kilometres across feel their way around the planet, with various bands of the atmosphere circling at different speeds.

A bolt of lightning creates an electromagnetic pulse that can travel a quarter way around the planet in a fraction of a second.

Climate change complicates transport Human - driven emissions of another kind — carbon — are expected to further complicate how mercury makes its way around the planet, especially in the Arctic.

A 27 - year - old Charles Darwin, not yet bearded, fresh from chundering his way around the planet in the poop cabin of the HMS Beagle, disembarked in Falmouth, England, on a mission to cement his growing reputation as a Grand Fromage of Science.

Swirls of color make their way around the planet like thunderstorms here on Earth.

A 3D platform game, Mario has to navigate his way around planets, each with their obstacles and gravitational pull; he will need to move sideways and upside down to manoeuvre his way through each stage, some of which will even force Mario back into 2D days.

Notorious among sailors for its strength and the rough seas it creates, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the largest wind - driven current on Earth and the only ocean current to travel all the way around the planet.

Not exact matches

For all the shiny chrome iPhone reveals, and new ways of connecting around our planet, there has been shock and sorrow, too.

The longevity of the coffee industry is directly linked to the social, economic and environmental conditions of coffee communities around the world, and Starbucks is committed to sourcing all of its coffee in the most ethical way possible that is good for the planet.

As the two planets make their separate ways around the sun, the distance between Mars and the Earth varies immensely — from about 35 million miles, to nearly 250 million miles separating the two celestial bodies.

And by the way planets are (reasonably) smooth and round because they turn around all the time, and when the gases were forming together they obviously didn't create a box!

We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».

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 THERE.

So why would He want to tell those folks about ALIENS from another planet, let alone that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not the other way around... And, according to the gold plates found by Joseph Smith, He DID visit other areas including the Americas where he appeared and taught natives there as well.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

If you just landed on a distant planet and had to learn your way around, what would be most helpful?

One protester's sign quipped «Science: running everything since 1543,» a reference to Nicolaus Copernicus's treatise that year arguing our planet revolves around the sun, instead of the other way.

They found that groups of the objects cluster in different ways, suggesting that not one but two giant planets «shepherd» the smaller objects around (arxiv.org/abs/1406.0715).

But that doesn't stop him fantasising about easier ways: «Wish I had a friend on a planet around a runaway star in the halo, sending me back a photo.»

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

That reflects the way we think planets form, which is from a flattened disk of gas and dust around a star.

This artist's view from an imagined planet around a nearby star shows the brilliant glow of exozodiacal light extending up into the sky and swamping the Milky Way.

The planet was found around the most common type of star in the Milky Way — a red dwarf.

Theorists who study planet formation could see no way for a planet that big to grow in such tight confines around a newborn star.

After detecting the first exoplanets in the 1990s it has become clear that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception and there are likely hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way alone.

It has been used to detect planets around distant stars within the Milky Way galaxy, and was among the first methods used to confirm Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

This means planets aligned this way shouldn't stick around for long, but that can't be true because we see them out there.

And given the number of potential planets that we now have good reason to think exist, even if the dice only come up the right way every one in 100 throws, that still leads to a very large number of intelligences scattered around, that are likely to be similar to us.»

This suggests that the way our planets and asteroids formed has a lot of kinship to the systems around other stars.»

The latest observations add yet another head - scratcher: giant gas planets that circle their stars on wildly tilted orbits or go around the wrong way altogether.

Fred C. Adams, an astrophysicist at the University of Michigan who studies planet formation, says such finds indicate we still don't know the true variety of worlds out there: «Planets can wiggle around in a lot of ways.»

Moons can form in one of three ways: accretion around a developing planet, capture by a planet's gravity or a giant impact from an asteroid or planet - size body that carves it out of a planet.

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of planets around the Milky Way, including rocky planets similar to Earth and gas planets similar to Jupiter.

Since his pulsar planet discovery in 1992, lots of other scientists have joined the search for worlds around other stars, but almost nobody else does it the way he does.

We used to think that moons form around planets in the same way as planets form around stars: coalescing from a gaseous disc that surrounded the planet as it formed.

In view of these circumstances, which should be common to and deducible by all the civilizations in our galaxy, it seems to us quite possible that one - way radio messages are being beamed at the earth at this moment by radio transmitters on planets in orbit around other stars.

Thus, through multiplicity the lioness can be reliably identified in much the same way multiple planet candidates can be found around the same star.

In a few million years, any inhabitants of planets around the stars will have a grand view of the outside of the Milky Way, something no human being will probably ever experience.»

Although the increased size of the E-ELT will be essential to obtaining an image of a planet at larger distances in the Milky Way, the light collecting power of the VLT is just sufficient to image a planet around the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

«In a strange way, these planets around a strange star more closely resemble our solar system» than the scores of giant planets found thus far around sunlike stars, he says.

Thirty years later — the equivalent of one Saturn year, in other words, the time the planet takes to go all the way around the Sun — and over more than six consecutive years, researchers in the UPV / EHU's Planetary Sciences Group, in collaboration with astronomers from various countries, were able to observe Saturn's northern polar region in detail once again and confirmed that the hexagon continued in place.

Earth has no known Trojans, perhaps because our home planet is too heavy to have been knocked around the same way that Mars was, Morbidelli says.

A NASA telescope taking a nose count of planets in one small neighborhood of the Milky Way registered more than 1,200 candidates, including 54 residing in life - friendly orbits around their parent stars.

Normally, it is the other way around: a planet synchronizes its orbit with that of its host star.

The way it does this is to look for subtle variations in the light coming from these star systems, either from the star itself or from the planet that is orbiting around it.

The martian atmosphere interacts with the planet's surface in two ways: frost can form and sublime away, and wind can blow and move dust around.

Because they are so close to their suns, they are gravitationally locked, causing one face of the planet to constantly face toward their stars, similar to the way the Moon revolves around the Earth.