Sentences with phrase «area of the sky close»

Luckily enough, the two flagship X-ray observatories, the ESA - led XMM - Newton and the NASA - led Chandra took snapshots of the same area of the sky close in time to the peak of the flare, and again about ten years later.

Not exact matches

Rather than looking at distant stars in a small area of sky, like Kepler did, TESS will look at closer stars over 85 per cent of the sky.

Because Proxima Centauri is so close to Earth, the area of sky warped by its gravitation field is larger than for more distant stars.

In 2009, NASA launched its Kepler probe to keep a close watch on a small section of the sky — the idea was to learn more about a smaller area than less about a larger one.

data are notoriously noisy, and the purported effect looks remarkably like an instrumental glitch: it appears only in one small area of the sky and on an angular scale close to the limit of the satellite's resolution.»

v «[The] data are notoriously noisy, and the purported effect looks remarkably like an instrumental glitch: it appears only in one small area of the sky and on an angular scale close to the limit of the satellite's resolution.»

Within the area of the sky covered by the starcloud, there are two further, less conspicuous clusters: Collinder 469 close to the lower right end of comet - like looking dark nebula Barnard 92 (sometimes nicknamed «Black Hole»), and Markarian 38 or Biur 5 (for Biurakan observatory) south of Barnard 93.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

Visitors can also take advantage of the well - considered outside braai areas for a true Kalahari sand - and - clear - sky - experience, huddling close to the fire in the crisp cold after sunset during winter.

Other ways to harvest sunlight, including solar thermal plants, are already close to competitive but restricted to areas with clear skies most of the year.

In the far northern latitudes there's not much surface area so the error probably doesn't mean much but then again when water vapor is frozen out of the atmosphere the so - called IR window gets a lot bigger and fewer clouds closing it back up means the error might be significant because radiative cooling efficiency is drastically increased in very cold clear sky.