Sentences with phrase «at celestial objects»

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Designed primarily for celestial viewing, this product is equally comfortable scanning the night sky as it is looking at objects here on Earth.

TESS will sweep the southern sky first and then, after a year, turn its attention to northern stars; all told, it will observe at least 30 million celestial objects.

It works by measuring the angle between the sun and a telescope's line of sight on a celestial object, and then comparing this angle to the angle recorded 6 months later, when Earth is at the opposite side of its orbit.

This will help to pinpoint sources of high - energy cosmic rays, shed light on mysterious celestial objects such as microquasars, reveal any dark matter at the centre of the sun, and see further and at higher energies than with any other telescope.

Near - Earth object (NEO) 8TA9D69 will strike the atmosphere over Sudan tonight at 0246 UTC, 5:46 a.m. local time, according to calculations by celestial dynamicist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

NASA's latest space surveyor should be able to peer at distant galaxies and uncover dim objects right in our own celestial backyard

This could mean that graphene - based chips, already held as promising candidates for the next generation of ultra-thin electronics, could not only bring us much faster number crunching but also help scientists understand the complex quantum phenomena that take place inside celestial objects at the other end of our universe.

When the celestial object in question passes through the meridian, the observer notes its angle above the horizon at the precise moment of its passing.

When a celestial object is in an elliptical orbit around another body, an apsis (plural apsides) is a point on the orbit at greatest or least distance from the center of attraction, which is generally the center of mass of the system.

We lived in the country in the middle of nowhere where it was nice and dark, so over the next few years, we looked at all sorts of celestial objects through that telescope.

As determined by the International Astronomical Union, any celestial object with a mass greater than 13 Jupiters should be considered a star.But according to Jonathan Fortney, an exoplanet and brown dwarf theorist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this definition leaves a lot of researchers cold because it doesn't take into account how the object was formed.

After breaking ticket records at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the touring exhibition «David Bowie Is» hits NYC in March, with more than 400 objects from the celestial pop icon's life, including costumes, lyric sheets and performance clips.

Students look at the behaviour of gravity with distance to calculate the gravitational forces between people and celestial objects.

I am reminded very strongly of the first scientific paper I ever wrote while a UROP student at MIT on «apparent super-luminal motion», which is to say astronomical observations that seemed to indicate that two celestial objects were moving apart faster than the speed of light.