9 sentences with 'planets'
Example sentences and phrases with the word planets and other words derived from it.
• « While ancient authors wrote about astronomy, for example, they did not adequately explain the observed motions of the stars and planets. »
• « The problem with this model is that it did not match the observed paths of the stars and, especially, the planets, which do not follow regular, circular orbits. »
• « Kepler also observed that there was some kind of force emanating from the sun that seemed to keep the planets in orbit; based on another scientist's recent work on magnets, Kepler concluded that some form of magnetism was likely the cause (in fact, Kepler had noted the role of gravity in space). »
• « Beyond the progressive ideas about gender, some of Fourier's concepts were a little more puzzling. Among other things, he claimed that planets mated and gave birth to baby planets, and that once all humanity lived in communities the oceans would become lemonade. »
• « At this stage Stephen Hawking was using his intuition to concentrate again on the enigma of the singularity that became a ball of fire at the beginning of time: how had stars, planets and people formed from it? »
• « After presenting his concept of borderlessness at a scientific conference in the Vatican, no less - it is not known what Pope John Paul II thought of it - in 1981 Hawking returned to the problem of the origin of stars, planets and people. »
• « The planets are thought to have formed from a nebula formed by these phases, only the Earth pushed the smaller hydrogen molecules out into space, the enormous gravity of Jupiter (a consequence of its size) trapping and holding them. While the Earth evolved, Jupiter remained as it was born. »
• « As we move away from Pluto at a speed inversely proportional to that of our arrival, we will speed past two planets so far from Earth that they appear as tiny discs in telescopes: Neptune and Uranus. »
• « The idea of communicating with beings from other planets is not unique to our time. Already in the 19th century, the mathematician and astronomer C. Gauss wanted to open huge grooves hundreds of kilometres long in the Siberian taiga. »