Sentences with phrase «younger than the planet»

The particles» incredible brightness makes some astronomers suspect that the rings are much younger than the planet: If they were old, they would have been darkened by accumulated carbon from meteoroid impacts.

The oldest rocks so far identified on Earth are one - half billion years younger than the planet itself, so geologists have relied on certain crystals as micro-messengers from ancient times.

Not exact matches

For decades after 1918, H1N1 wandered around the planet, a commonplace flu, no more virulent than any ordinary strain, a killer of the very old and the very young.

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

The oldest rocky planets yet are 11.2 billion years old, just a little younger than the universe — meaning the galaxy made an early start on planet building

Remarkably, these signs appeared around much younger stars than astronomers thought possible, suggesting that planet formation can begin soon after the formation of a protoplanetary disk.

In the past year, astronomers searching for planets around other stars have found alien worlds that are smaller and younger than any previously known.

And second, younger stars often have planets — including the massive so - called hot Jupiters — orbiting much closer than Mercury does to the sun.

In fact, last week, astronomers found a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth whose orbit around its relatively young star is only 3 % of the distance from Earth to the sun (ScienceNOW, 21 April).

Saladino and Di Mauro suggested formamide would have concentrated in warm lagoons on our young planet — particularly because it has a higher boiling point than water, so would concentrate as water evaporated.

Freshly harvested data from NASA's Cassini mission reveals that the ringed planet's moons may be younger than previously thought.

We live on one solid planet, but because of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Earth's core is actually 2 - and - a-half years younger than the surface, Science News reports.

Finally, in the third paper, the star «Kepler - 444», hosting five sub-terrestrial planets, was confirmed to be 10.5 billion years old, more than twice the age of our Sun and just a little bit younger than the universe as a whole.

This would make the planets much younger than their hosts, which would explain their unusual heat and puffiness.

Early in the formation of our solar system (before 3.9 billion years ago) there was lots of large debris striking the surfaces of the young planets and moons; these older impact basins are larger than the more recent craters.

Its atmosphere is often compared to that of the young Earth, albeit cooled too much lower temperatures (< 90 K) than ever found on our planet.

This sets the most likely age of the planets at 11.5 billion years, which is 2.5 times older than Earth and 2 billion years younger than the universe itself (around 13.7 billion years).

However, the recent discovery by the ALMA radio telescope of a planet - forming disk more than 100 astronomical units from the star HL Tauri, which is younger than the Sun and more massive, suggests that planets can form several hundred astronomical units away from the centre of the system.

The VLA has been used by more than 2200 researchers and has made important discoveries in nearly every astronomical specialty, from studies of the Sun and planets within the Solar System to young galaxies and quasars billions of light - years away.

The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

Such planets are much harder to see than young gas giants because of their much smaller sizes.

However, it took a lot more than some concealer and a wig to make Ego the Living Planet look 30 years younger.

What astounded me more than anything was that these young people had not only imagined future worlds, but imbued them with the conundrums of our modern planet; pollution, greed, climate - change, the disturbing dark potential of Ai and genetic modification.

The other characters are fairly diverse and some are more memorable than others, but it was a really nice to see a young Gale Holden - the father of Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions» protagonist - included as a connection to the original game.

The idea of the game sounds like it'd be a grand old time: as a young boy on the planet Gamearth, Rise is caught in the middle of a war between his peaceful people and the Gears of War - style Grunts who love nothing more than extreme violence and incredible structural damage.

When the planet's sun is 4 billion years younger it's output is 33 % less than it is today, so under clear skies with an albedo for water of 0.1, the average incident solar energy would be ~ 274 watts / m2.

An Oregon judge ruled earlier this month that a complaint filed by more than a dozen young plaintiffs against the federal government — referred to by advocates as «the most important lawsuit on the planet right now» — can go to trial.

There were as many older generations ages - 50 plus, as younger generations of less than 30 years old - that care about the health of our Planet and Pollution that is causing world wide climate change from the business as usual approach of the Big Business Polluting Machine 2.