Sentences with phrase «as pinpricks»

The international probe trained its gaze on Earth in 2013, producing an incredible photo that shows Earth, Mercury and Venus shining as pinpricks of light behind Saturn.

Countless galaxies vie for attention in this dazzling image of the Fornax Cluster, some appearing only as pinpricks of light while others dominate the foreground.

Not exact matches

A WORLD NEXT DOOR Proxima Centauri casts a reddish glow over the surface of Proxima b (illustrated), the closest exoplanet to Earth, while two companion stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, appear as bright pinpricks of light.

But as Clauser knew well from his radio - astronomy work, apertures in the real world are always wider than a mathematical pinprick.

The research focused on chemical irritants and mechanical pain, such as that experienced following a pinprick or pinch.

According to Graney, Marius concluded that his observations showed that the stars were too close to Earth to satisfy the Copernican world view — which says that the stars lie at a huge distance from Earth, and so would appear as starry pinpricks to any observer.

As long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per seconAs long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per seconas it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per second.

QST uses brief computer - applied painful stimuli as well as sophisticated manually - applied pain sensitivity testing (such as heat, cold, pressure and pinprick) to assess how the nervous system responds to painful stimuli.

In addition to taking 1,100 years to complete its orbit around the sun, the object is blisteringly chilly, which makes sense seeing as it's located in the Kuiper Belt where our sun is no more than a bright pinprick in the sky.

For this reason, it is often kinder to put the injection into other areas of the body, as it keeps the number of pinpricks to a minimum, although this does mean that it takes a few minutes to work.

Clutching my wind - up flashlight in the darkness, I walked beneath the pinpricks of unfamiliar stars to the Gunyah, an indoor - outdoor wood - and — corrugated - iron restaurant that serves as the hotel's centerpiece.

The deceptively rough appearance of the marks is countered by Baldridge's use of rennaisance cartoon transfer techniques which include the laborious process of working and reworking each image through thousands of tiny pinpricks, as well as flawless technical abilities in serigraphy and draftsmanship.

His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.