Sentence examples for size of sun from inspiring English sources

Third, as an example, it is believed that Archimedes composed the now famous cattle problem (problema bovinum, that asked for the size of sun god's herd) as a joke, for it led to 7- and 8-digit solutions that the Greeks would not even know how to easily write down, while, with extra conditions, the minimum solution featured unimaginable for them 206545 decimal digits.

The umbra reaches the PV module (as shown in Fig. 3a) if the apparent size of wire is higher than the apparent size of sun, otherwise (as shown in Fig. 3b) the PV module is placed only in penumbra.

Because transiting Earth-size exoplanets and their hydrogen clouds are too small relative to the size of Sun-like G-stars to detect them, Lammer et al. (2011b) proposed to study hydrogen clouds around such planets within orbits of M dwarf stars.

As the planet makes its "leisurely journey across the face of the sun," it will appear 1/158 the size of the sun, according to NASA.

Before the Olympic Games, the size of the sun disc of the national flag was changed partly because the sun disc was not considered striking when it was being flown with other national flags.

The stars may be passing through a stage of stellar evolution that lasts no more than a few tens of thousands of years, the scientists say a phase between red giants (about 30 or 40 times the size of our sun) and blue subdwarfs (stars about one-fifth the size of our sun but seven times hotter and 70 times brighter).

In a study published on Thursday in Science, an international team of astronomers outline the slow demise of a star twice the size of the Sun as it ran afoul of a supermassive black hole with a mass equal to 20 million Suns.

"It's a red giant," Lawrence explains, "a thousand times the size of our Sun".

Somewhere in the back of my head a little light about the size of the sun went off.

The researchers believe that Kretzoiarctos was about the size of a sun bear and weighed approximately 130 pounds.

Then you are told that if the sphere is the size of the sun, then the nine-inch ball on the railing is the size of the earth.