Sentences with phrase «blocks out some of the light»

According to the scientists, in these circumstances the distortion of the planets should be detectable in transit events, where the planets moves in front of their stars and blocks out some of their light.

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I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

I worry that pulling one element out into the light for full scrutiny may cause the whole edifice to collapse like a tower of Jenga blocks, revealing it for the pile of conceited verbiage that it quite possibly is.

Don't block out your doubts, but examine them well; turn them around in your mind; discuss them with wise and patient friends... God has somehow outlasted thousands of years of champion doubters, lined up to ask their stumpers; He hasn't heard one yet that He can't answer, and yours probably won't knock Him from His heavenly throne either... Bring [your doubt] out into the light and «doubt it out.»

And therefore he allows it to remain blocking out the light and air in his theological edifice, instead of boldly throwing it out of the window.

At the corner of my block, a place lights its fireplace and spreads out its board games.

While you could sort of understand if the players flagged towards the end of a match after all the midweek European matches and then the busy festive period, that does not explain why the Gunners were so slow out of the blocks, but perhaps the Arsenal and England star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain has shed some light onto the subject this week.

The Royals had made a stuttering start to life in the top - flight (they would succumb to relegation at the end of the season) but under the lights at their home patch, their players flew out of blocks against their opponents, racing into a 4 - 0 lead after 35 minutes.

However it is too close to discomfort for me & for the first time a glass half emopty man like me is seeing some light at the end of the tunnel — sadly it is being blocked out by a very big pornstar tache with a chequeboook.

Now, I'm a huge proponent of blocking out the light so that your child can sleep.

He / she will be protected from the rays of the sun and more importantly, he / she will be able to sleep better since the cover will block out lighting.

You can then repeat this experiment using the dark paper to block out one side of the lid to see whether they prefer dark or light conditions.

Babies can easily get overstimulated, so turning off the lights in a room blocks out the stimulation of light and most likely, noise.

The canopy is adjustable and blocks out most of the unwanted light to let baby snooze in peace, even during bright, daylight hours.

A flower pot was damaged and landscape lights were pulled out in the 300 block of Hawthorne between 9 p.m. on May 15 and 5 a.m. on May 16.

Love this car seat and how light it is compared to others, what I don't like is that the canopy never stays open as pictured on the website, it always closes and doesn't do its job of blocking out the sun, it is also very difficult to remove any stains from the fabric of the headrest, lastly the handles on both sides of the carrier are very frustrating when you're trying to put your baby in the car seat because you need both hands to move the handle and often your hands are holding your baby.

Keeping the lights dim and using shades which block out the light is one way of telling your baby that it's time for him to take a nap.

Blocking out 92 % of light allows baby get to sleep easily and stay asleep comfortably.

Try something like the Deconovo Blackout Curtains to block out most of the light from the windows in your baby's room.

Make sure that the nursery or bedroom where your baby sleeps is totally dark — with the possible exception of a night light — and pay special attention to blocking out the early morning sun.

ALBANY — Four years after investigators first uncovered something amiss in his political campaign account, former Sen. George Maziarz Friday walked out of a state courthouse two blocks from the Capitol with a misdemeanor plea deal and his wallet lighter by $ 1,000.

These curtains block out up to 98 % of light when choosing a darker color, according to AMAZLINEN.

They are made with a three - layer construction of sound dampening fabric, allowing them to block out sound, light, and heat effectively.

Completely enclosed, an opaque exterior blocks out harmful light that can destroy the nutritional content of food during the drying process.

CTB 102 has eluded recognition because it is in the Perseus arm, the spiral arm of the Milky Way next out from ours, where dust blocks visible light.

At any time, Mercury blocks out no more than a tiny part of the light from the Sun.

A starshade is a sunflower - shaped, paper - thin screen half as big as a football field that would float tens of thousands of kilometers directly ahead of WFIRST, blocking out a target star's light in much the same way one might blot out the sun in the sky with an extended thumb.

The technology controls the amount of light crops receive using a thin covering of nano - tech film that blocks out harmful ultraviolet light while optimizing beneficial light.

Patches of dust block out the light as it travels towards us, preventing us from seeing the stars behind it, and smaller tendrils of dust create the dark filamentary structures within the clouds.

Called VISIR, the instrument will be equipped with a coronagraph — a mask to block out the light of the star so that the much fainter planets can be seen.

They predicted that the same hot plasma producing the radiation will also act to block the visible light, causing the gusher of energy from the kilonova to flood out in near - infrared light over several days.

Europe's Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) and the U.S. - backed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) are attached to big telescopes in Chile and employ sophisticated masks, called coronagraphs, to block out the light of the star.

The neutral hydrogen gas blocks out most of their light, and because they are not capable of building their own local bubbles as quickly as the bright ones, they are much harder to detect.»

Rain and wind could power the next generation of smart windows, which change color to block out light and heat.

Researchers at the McMath - Pierce Solar Telescope in Arizona test a 4 - inch starshade, designed to precisely block out a star's light, but not the light of orbiting planets.

AMD develops slowly over decades, with the buildup of fatty protein deposits in the retina, which cause damage by blocking the flow of nutrients into the light - sensitive portion of the eye, and of waste products out.

Sun - watching spacecraft block out the bulk of the sun's light with a shield to avoid blinding their cameras.

These filters block out light pollution and the moon's glow, if present, by allowing only specific wavelengths of light to reach the camera sensor.

Blocking Out the Light «At my home, we have heavy drapes to block the light at night,» says Steven Hill, chairman of breast cancer research at Tulane University and widely regarded as a pioneer in the fLight «At my home, we have heavy drapes to block the light at night,» says Steven Hill, chairman of breast cancer research at Tulane University and widely regarded as a pioneer in the flight at night,» says Steven Hill, chairman of breast cancer research at Tulane University and widely regarded as a pioneer in the field.

But because the coronagraphs have to block out an area slightly larger than the sun itself in order to prevent too much light from leaking in, there is a ring of space around the sun that neither set of instruments looks at.

One method that has been discussed for years but has yet to bear fruit is known as transit timing — if a planet passes in front of its host star so that it blocks out a small but detectable fraction of the star's light, researchers can time the arrival of that partial eclipse, known as a planetary transit.

The atmosphere is a problem for astronomers for two big reasons: it's turbulent, so it smears out the light from cosmic objects, and it blocks out huge swathes of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Though scientists can not directly measure the size or the mass of planets so far away, they can estimate the size based on how much light they block out during their transit across the star they orbit.

When a planet passes in front of a star, some of the light is blocked out, and the luminosity drops.

Alien worlds can often be detected when they orbit in front of their sun, blocking out a small portion of light from the star.

When an extrasolar planet (exoplanet) moves in front of it's parent star, a portion of the star's light is blocked out by the planet as it crosses the face of it's star.

Akin to trying to detect a firefly in front of a lighthouse, the team analyzed the light from the star, then blocked it out.

SPHERE has a coronograph to block out the otherwise blinding light of the host star, and new capabilities to correct for disturbances caused by features of our atmosphere.

Beauty is a total state of radiance from the inside out, and agitation and impatience can block feeling light and joyful, which is part of beauty.

Turns out, there is a simple way to reduce most of the blue light we see at night: blue light blocking glasses.