Sentences with phrase «away objects in the sky»

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A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness.

But many people don't know how the distances to astronomical objects can be measured and think there may be something wrong with the methods of the scientists, that perhaps all objects we see in the sky are no farther away than some thousand light years, and hence the YECs could be right anyway.

Hubble stared at a certain spot (the Ultra Deep Field) for 100 hours, peering at the sky in infrared in order to catch objects the farthest away [source: Plait].

In principle, measuring astronomical parallax is easy: measure the position of an object in the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (eIn principle, measuring astronomical parallax is easy: measure the position of an object in the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (ein the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (eg.

From anyplace on Earth, the clearest thing in the night sky is usually the moon, Earth's only natural satellite and the nearest celestial object (240,250 miles or 384,400 km away).