Sentences with phrase «as celestial bodies»

In a series of works from 2011 to 2014, Smith again explores the rich terrain of expressions of human and animal forms as well as celestial bodies and nature.

The 70 works featured in the show range from painting to woven installations to video projections, and span subjects as large as celestial bodies to as tiny as the flower of a bush plum.

The International Astronomical Union defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun; has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit; or within another system, it is in orbit around a star or stellar remnants; has a mass below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion of deuterium; and is above the minimum mass / size requirement for planetary status in the Solar System.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines «planet» as a celestial body that, within the solar system, [1]

Not exact matches

As the two planets make their separate ways around the sun, the distance between Mars and the Earth varies immensely — from about 35 million miles, to nearly 250 million miles separating the two celestial bodies.

Yes Christ may well have been the very 1st son born before the earth was made as it now is and yes Christ came to this world to prove to his father that he (Christ Jesus) was who he was by dying and going into his dead body to where his father did reign to show to his father that his very first mission to establish all the ways and means needed to keep the nasty from ever anymore to be but only the ruled over within the confining constraints of all celestial cosmologies everywhere to be so known by God Almighty!

Furthermore, it appeared, as far as anybody knows for certain, on just one of the myriad of celestial bodies, the earth.

And as for the pre-existence of Christ, with its corollary of man's translation into a celestial realm of light, and the clothing of the human personality in heavenly robes and a spiritual body — all this is not only irrational but utterly meaningless.

All that we (our bodies) are is as being an atomized cosmos of cellular formed mini universes living upon a planetary cosmology of atomized bi-products made by celestial stabilities created in sequential productivities of sedimentary allowances made from the very beginnings of cosmological creations sanctifications afforded breathes of the cosmic being our universe is found being within!

Some of our bodies are as condominiums and some are for storage purposes and some are the temples where God's family members and his servants and otherly holy brethrens do pay homages within all embodied celestial manifestations of living organisms.

It is truth that the real sons of God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of the body's «inwardnessed» inter-cellular cosmologies as occasional protrutions of insolent «activists» that are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many unrighteous undulations of physical travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and even bacteriological undoings upon one's bodies in the way we understand things to be and therefore become.

NONE, The Earth as an accreted celestial body of roughly the same size as exists today, was formed roughly 4.567 billion years ago as concluded by current (2011) scientific evidence.

That would explain why the radio background does not match up with the infrared background, as it would if the radio sources were, like most celestial bodies, surrounded by dust.

The Outer Space Treaty, which the United States signed in 1967, requires that the exploration of the moon and other «celestial bodies» be conducted «so as to avoid their harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter.»

Analysis of the Almahata Sitta meteorite reveals that it is an achondrite, a rare type of space rock that comes from celestial bodies that are large enough to generate internal heat early in their history so as to produce metallic cores surrounded by rock.

They use a planet's gravitational field as a slingshot, which allows them to visit other celestial bodies without using up too much fuel.

When it comes to clarifying how a celestial body like a planet or a natural satellite is born and grows, it is necessary to know as precisely as possible its internal structure and thermal state.

So, he says, is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and so is the Earth's moon, and so are more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under the prevailing definition of «planet.»

As with the gravitational pull of a celestial body, the uneven solar heating on Earth's dayside distorts the spherical symmetry of the atmosphere, but in a more complex way.

Citizens the world over were engaged by the astronomical achievement, and now the European Space Agency and NASA are eager to learn as much as possible about the critically important celestial body of ice.

Vesta is large for an asteroid, leading to its classification as a «protoplanet,» a celestial body that, it is thought, could have developed into a planet.

She has her kids pretend they are these celestial bodies and shows them how to move around each other as Native American or Tibetan music softly plays in the background.

Their simple site offers a brief, concise and thoroughly riveting history of timekeeping, from the days when celestial bodies acted as our clocks, through sundials, mechanical and quartz timepieces, right up to the establishment of time zones (Finally: the guiding principle behind the Prime Meridian!)

Kuiper belt objects are therefore gaining recognition as a completely separate class of celestial bodies.

Using the position of celestial bodies and earthbound landmarks whose latitude was known, astronomer Jean - Dominique Cassini and his son Jacques calculated in the early 18th century that the length of a degree of latitude seemed to increase slightly as they traveled south, indicating that Earth was pulled in at the equator, or as others quipped, like a «potbellied man wearing a tight belt.»

PASADENA, Calif. — Apart from the sun, no celestial body has influenced life on Earth as much as Jupiter.

Now they can detect a wobble of a celestial body as slow as three meters per second, about the speed of a bicycle in motion.

The Triton moon orbiting Neptune, for instance, is nearly as large as Earth's moon, though ice volcanoes dispersed throughout the celestial body give off nitrogen frost, giving the moon a smoky appearance.

geochemistry A science that deals with the chemical composition of and chemical changes in the solid material of Earth or of another celestial body (such as the moon or Mars).

If you grew up knowing that there were nine planets orbiting our sun and were a bit crushed when Pluto lost its status among those celestial bodies, there might be new hope for a nine - pack, as researchers are again putting forth the idea that a giant planet might be lurking somewhere out there on the fringes of our Solar System.

New research suggests that our planet and the Sun boasted complementary traits that allowed early life to be nurtured and incubated even as the two celestial bodies matured.

The data allowed them to confirm the mass of the planet as well as determine the approximate metallicity (a number of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium within a celestial body), and the primary composition of the planet's atmosphere.

However, even when many dark celestial bodies emit radiation, the emission may be observed just as «cosmic background» radiation if the sensitivity and resolution of the telescope in use is insufficient.

Aberration of Light, a phenomenon in which a star or other celestial body, as viewed from the earth, appears to be slightly displaced from its true position.

The celestial body that is these earrings» namesake may only come around once every 76 years, but these are just as stunning and you can wear them every single day!

Sanctuary II, being a space ship, is more mobile than some celestial body like Sanctuary, and it would make sense to find it on the move as we approach «Infinity War.»

Think of «The Bishop's Wife» (Cary Grant as a guardian angel), and «It's a Wonderful Life» (banker contemplates suicide and communicates with celestial bodies).

This module includes the following: * A check list for students, parents and teachers to ensure that students understand all the content by the time they reach the end of the module; * A list of important terms used in this section * Descriptions of different celestial bodies (planets, stars, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites) * Opportunities for student engagement - place for students to write their thoughts / answers in spaces provided (individual as well as group work) * Simple explanations on the Earth's rotation, day and night, years and seasons, equinoxes and solstices.

A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.6 billion years ago.

To this end they studied the movements of the celestial bodies and developed an astronomy so precise that their ancient calendar of 365 days was as accurate as the one we employ today and more accurate than the calendar the first European explorers brought with them to America.

Our own astronomers ruminate about ideas such as the origins of the universe and how the various celestial bodies are related to each other.

Once past Moon's initial summoning the first issue introduces us to the titular celestial body and his partner Ray as they investigate a murder.

What / Why: «As Earth's closest celestial body and only natural satellite, the moon has engaged our curiosity and imagination over millennia and across cultures.

Their imagery and atmosphere evoke celestial bodies as seen from a distance, the light sources emanating directional lines or radial patterns which result in subtle gradients.

Alternately, the piece can be read more abstractly as a map of flat, tangential relationships or symbolically, bringing to mind both the historical astronomers Tycho Brahe's and Johannes Kepler's diagrams, which attempted to prove Copernican astronomy, and Nancy Holt's Dark Star Park (1984), an earth work that simultaneously illuminates and mystifies the human relationship to celestial bodies.

Made on stretched canvases, works like Mother and Child (2016), with its horizon line and eclipsed celestial bodies, have a strong relationship to landscape (a genre that greatly interested the artist in his student years at the Rhode Island School of Design), as well as to the modular paintings, with their strong geometric forms painted and primary colors.

Yang attempts to close this distance in a work that explores our shared elemental equivalencies; as inherent parts of the Milky Way galaxy, our corporeal bodies are, in a very real sense, celestial bodies.

Among the many such convergences are a mutual interest in the body, the scientific gaze (particularly as it relates to diagnostic medicine), relationships between the infinitesimal and the celestial, and the sense of wonder such scrutiny engenders.