Sentences with phrase «are the telescopes of»

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Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

However, Kepler researchers suspect that almost countless Earthlike planets are waiting to be found, because the telescope can «see» only exoplanets that pass in front of their stars.

Thompson said this new Kepler data analysis would be the last for this leg of the telescope's first observations.

Made of high - strength textiles, the kite is launched off a telescoping mast with a winch, and tethered to the ship by a tear - proof synthetic cable.

The store is always packed with customers, browsing through hundreds of varieties of camera bags with every possible combination of lens compartments; the room full of telescopes; and, of course, enough lenses to burn all the ants in the Sahara to a crisp.

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black - and - white images of them from telescopes here on Earth.

Astronomers have trained a flurry of telescopes on the object discovered last month, and now we're being rewarded with super-exciting details.

They mapped out how far star - forming regions were from the sky, using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array of telescopes, and calculating how far these war form Earth.

The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

With a dish the size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.

Much of the telescope's chassis, including a series of giant gold - plated mirrors, have been fully assembled and tested.

While there is no tariff on telescoping umbrellas, China is one of the US's and the world's only suppliers.

A newly released image from NASA Hubble telescope reveals that a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, has an array of galaxies guarding it and is useful in studying far - flung galaxies by its gravitational lensing property.

The term is ambiguous and would have needed to be defined in any such legislation; a federal ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004 applied to semiautomatic weapons with two or more of a list of specific features (for example, a telescoping stock and a pistol grip).

A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky «powdered with stars» (in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world's most powerful telescopes are).

As the name suggests, the idea is to have multiple radio telescopes over a large area, increasing the effective size of the receiver antennae.

The telescope is made up of 66 antennas installed on Chile's highest plateau.

And, how can one look through a telescope to see the awesome beautiful wonders of the universe and not believe that there is not some higher power afoot?

LoL Unless of course you're saying they had powerful telescopes in 7th century Arabia LoL.

Need I remind you that the expansion of the universe was only confirmed via Hobble telescope in the early 1990's?!

Less than a hundred years later, Italian Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) using the telescope, made observations that convinced him that the Copernician hypothesis of an earth revolving around the sun was true.

The telescope guy is just one of about 7 billion.

Dreaming innocence is not, however, human life, and when Lewis contrasts Malacandra and «the silent planet» (earth), his low estimate of human life becomes evident: when Ransom acknowledges to one of the rational creatures that the speck through the telescope is his planet, «It was the bleakest moment in all his travels.»

I feel humble every time I look out at the vastness of the universe through my telescope but, then again, the universe isn't plotting to make me suffer if I'm indifferent towards it either.

The establishment understandings of God are indeed under assault, and open - minded believers are forced to grapple with «new evidence» of unprecedented magnitude, as the recent photograph from the Hubble telescope made amazingly clear.

How odd is it that the words of affirmation denied him by the church, would be spoken by men standing on the surface of the same moon Galileo observed through his telescope when he studied the night skies?

What I like the most it does not get in the way of the scientific method or the exploration being done by NASA, CERN, Hubble or Kepler telescopes.

Telescopes instead would do the work and look for a mixture of chemicals in the atmosphere that's close to Earth's.

will have to be assumed and telescoped; but I will concentrate on what I think are critical questions — critical in the sense that they represent, at least in my opinion, points on which greater clarity is required if the community of Christ's discipleship is to move into the post-Christendom future with something like apostolic confidence.

When Galileo swept the heavens with his telescope, he was hunting for a larger vision of the universe.

Perhaps they were, but it is more likely that the writers of the gospels have telescoped events.

If telescopes make it clear that heavenly bodies are not perfectly spherical and furthermore reveal moons rotating around a planet, then the old notion of the æther, a refined fifth element admitting only the potentiality for perfect circular motion on the part of perfectly spherical bodies, no longer has a role to play.

In Acts, Jesus» sending of his apostles to the ends of the earth is illumined with an image of Earth from space taken by the Hubble telescope.

He must be able to gaze through the telescope, to peer through the microscope, with a mind unaverted from that great Source of all being who is our Beginning and our last End.

For the distant nebulae, as seen through the telescope, we are looking back through hundreds of millions of years.

To observe them it is necessary to note that it was not simply a telescoping of two incompatible ideas; it was an assertion of two basic truths, both so indispensable that neither one could be surrendered then, or ought to be surrendered now.

Also — keep in mind that these books were written before space travel, the Hubble telescope, and flight, when nobody could see above the clouds and all sorts of myths could be created about what's on top of them.

But is it not possible that we have been looking through the wrong end of the telescope, or seeing things in the wrong light?

The observations of the COBE satellite and Hubble telescope prove the universe had a beginning and the laws of thermodynamics show the universe could not create itself out of a steady state of absolute nothing and can't be eternal.

Earth is part of our solar system, our solar system is a very small neighborhood in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that are the residue of the Big Bang - this is where we are at right now... using several different types of telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what is actually happening our there.

It was through the use of telescopes that we managed to prove that the earth is not in the center of the universe, and by the use of microscopes that we started our journey to understand the smallest building materials of life.

If we now consider the number of the stars (15,000 x 106 visible to the optical telescope alone) you will understand how it is possible to say, cosmically speaking, that we are enveloped in a sort of monstrous gas formed of molecules as heavy as the Sun moving at distances from each other so great that they have to be reckoned in light - years (bearing in mind that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, and that we are only 8 light - minutes distant from the sun)-- a gas made of stars!

Here and there small milky patches are to be discerned in the sky, which the telescope shows to be spiral clouds containing sparks of brilliance.

2) Are you suggesting that if one universe existed outside of our own, we would / should be able to view it with a telescope?

The very intensity of a prophet's vision and his overpowering sense of its reality cause the interval before its fulfillment to be telescoped in his mind.

The number 14 may have been chosen because it was twice seven (the number of completeness) and / or because it is the numerical value of the name David (see note on Rev. 13: 18) For the practice of telescoping genealogies to achieve the desired number of names, see Introduction to 1 Chronicles: Genealogies.»

We cant even see whats on the other side of the Moon, and we are led to believe about a black hole Billions of light years away based on a telescope?

Pleides is a group of stars originally thought to be 5 - 7 stars, but with modern telescopes there are about 250 stars that are traveling together in space as if they are bound together.The belt of [in the contilation of] Orion is made up several stars that are constantly moveing in irregular paths as learned only by the use of telescopes.

For example, telescoping (leaving out some names for the sake of brevity) is common in Biblical genealogies but is rare in modern genealogies.