Sentences with phrase «whole system of planets»

Now Kepler has found a whole system of planets orbiting a double star.

Not exact matches

These canals left the edge of the blue - green «continents» at the very points where the canals of the light regions entered them, which continuation is highly significant, since it links the two together into a single system, compassing the whole surface of the planet.

The system covers the whole surface of the planet, dark areas and light areas alike, in a way that renders impossible the supposition that any natural force produced the canals.

In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the other known planets — a fact that Brown says makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.»

Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

Regenerative life support systems, which continually recycle the necessities of life — such as oxygen and water — are vital for flights to far - off planets such as Mars because a spaceship can not carry enough supplies for the whole trip.

Current models suggest that planets should orbit in the same direction as their star's rotation (as is true for our solar system), in keeping with the view that the whole shebang formed from the same spinning disk of material.

«It's fascinating research because it has opened up a whole new way to study planetary systems,» says Sara Seager, an extrasolar planet researcher at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington DC, US.

Whatever their origin, the planemos are surrounded by disks of rocky debris, suggesting that they each may be at the center of a whole miniature system of planets circling planets.

The idea that climate behaves like a dynamical system addresses some of the key shortcomings of the conventional view of climate change — the view that looks at the planet as a whole, in terms of averages.

In the case of the known multiple planet systems, for instance, the gravitational tug of one extra planet would disrupt the whole system, scattering all the planets.

Meteorites as a whole are still important clues about what processes occurred during the formation of the solar system, but which ones are the best analogs for what the planets were made out of would change.»

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

Unlike Pluto, Planet Nine is so massive that its gravity dominates a region of the solar system that's bigger than any of the other known planets — something that Brown said makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.&Planet Nine is so massive that its gravity dominates a region of the solar system that's bigger than any of the other known planets — something that Brown said makes it «the most planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.&planet - y of the planets in the whole solar system.»

Studies conducted by our group have also shown that exoplanets orbiting really close to their host star have very dynamic atmospheres, meaning that they change continuously, producing clouds of different sizes, even whole cloud systems, all over the planet's surface.

But when multiple methods are used together, we can learn the vital statistics of whole planetary systems — without ever directly imaging the planets themselves.

By surveying the whole sky, we will find systems that orbit stars 10 times closer and 100 times brighter than those found by Kepler — opening up new possibilities for measuring planet masses and densities, studying their atmospheres, characterizing their host stars, and establishing the full nature of the systems in which the planets reside.

This works at every level: our atoms working in harmony to create and keep our cells whole, our cells coming into harmony to create our bodies, our body's ability to come into harmony with other bodies to create communities and cultures, our culture's ability to get along and stop fighting in order to create a world of people living in harmony as one planet, the plants creating the harmony that hold our solar system together, and on and on.

Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.»

Leer's custom 2015 Ford F - 150 light duty pickup concept for SEMA may not boast a long list of engine and chassis performance upgrades like those employed in other SEMA concepts, but for those of us who live on this planet, for whom a luxurious interior and kickin» sound system mean everything, it makes a whole lot of sense.

Explore depicts some of the realms that players will be landing in — including lifeforms, structures, plant life, planets, other space ships and intelligent beings — and, presumably, reveals just a minuscule part of its whole playable star systems.

he said you can do anything you want - but from what i heard, you can t even piss in the woods on a single planet - but u can shoot stuff w a gun and fly to another planet that is mostly the same as the planet u just left but is still better than the «object» of the game to get to the center of the «system / galaxy» - but when u get there,, there is no there there There is not a single strip joint in the whole galaxy - how realistic is that - the aliens cant walk, they just stand there and mumble but at least they are honest unlike that Sean Murray guy - That guy lies almost as much as Hillary Clinton but he surely has not broken near as many laws as she has - otherwise he would be in jail

With the approximation of geothermal and tidal (and fossil fuel combustion) heat supplies being zero (valid for at least the inner planets), the net flux at a given level is equal to the energy gain or loss rate for the whole climate system below that level.

A schematic of the solar system, where the energy received by the earth is the sunlight intercepted by its cross-section, and where the heat loss on average is due to thermal emission from the whole surface area of the planet.

Are these two mechanisms sufficient for driving the atmospheric pressure system, ecological and biological systems of the whole planet to the best?

By world here, I mean specifically the whole non-tectonic energy system of the planet, from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the atmosphere.

This human - nature hybrid is true not just of the climate system, but of the planet as a whole, although it is enough for it to be true of the climate system.

One example of a climatic change caused by normal geological processes is the formation of the Tibetian plateau which effectively cooled the whole planet by strengthening the monsoon system in southern Asia and forming the Himalayas.

If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO2 that has to be absorbed and that only happens slowly.