Sentences with phrase «bright patches»

Detailed with pick - stitched embroidery, our quilt features bright patches of pattern and color that make it just a little easier to rise and shine.

Along the line where day turns to night, several isolated bright patches appear.

NGC 3576, 3579, 3581, 3582, 3584 and 3586 are all bright patches in the centre of the nebula.

It shows the very bright patches of material in the crater Occator and elsewhere.

Some owners are reporting an unacceptable level of backlight bleed, with bright patches appearing at the edges or corners of the display.

The movie also shows one persistent bright patch of the aurora rotating in lockstep with the orbital position of Saturn's moon Mimas.

Now, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which has orbited Mercury since March, has confirmed that these radar - bright patches neatly coincide with deep crater floors near the poles that never receive any sunlight at all.

The periodically arranged bright patches of the lattice are the sites on which the atoms are allowed to settle down.

Note that moss at this scale is seen to be composed of bright patches approximately 1,250 - 2,500 miles (2,000 to 4,000 km) in size interspersed with dark holes, thus giving it its «spongy» or «mossy» appearance.

The Eagle and Omega nebulae are two bright patches among many clouds of gas and dust which can be found all along the Sagittarius Arm.

The name NGC 3503 however, only refers to a tiny bright patch of this nebula.

Such dark craters could have functioned as «cold traps,» as new spacecraft imagery found that bright patches previously detected by ground - based radio telescopes (such as the Arecibo Observatory) in the 1990s are aligned precisely with shadowed areas of Mercury's craters (NASA MESSENGER image release; Chabot et al, 2012; Paul Rincon, BBC News, March 22, 2012; and Harmon et al, 2011).

Fauvism depicted objects with intense arbitrary color, while Orphism was characterized by bright patches of color rather than a figurative subject.

In almost all cases, adding an HID retrofit kit generates a) dangerous glare for oncoming traffic and b) does not properly illuminate the road - you will have very bright patches, but very little visibility outside this limited patch.

In October, the area known as active region 12192 (the bright patch on the left side of the main image) spawned the largest sunspot group in 24 years.

Working in an Ecuadorian cloud forest, he noticed that a hummingbird could collect a bright patch of pollen on its head, then arrive at the very next flower with just a «light gray dusting.»

Once foes were in close proximity and face - to - face, the male with the brightest patches on its head usually won the fight.

Now, more than a Mercury year (88 Earth days) later, Messenger's high - resolution camera has shown that the bright patches are shallow, irregularly shaped pits within the craters.

The bright patches that pepper the surface represent a large range of brightness, with the brightest areas reflecting about 50 percent of sunlight shining on the area.

The Gamma Cygni nebula, IC 1318, has three bright patches (parts A, B and C,) and they each have a diameter of about 50 light years.

Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA, UMass — larger and jumbo x-ray images This 400 by 900 light - years (ly) mosaic image of the Milky Way galactic center includes «hundreds of white dwarf stars, neutron stars, and black holes bathed in an incandescent fog of multimillion - degree gas» — plus a central black hole in the bright patch at center (more at Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Wang et al, 2001).

The good was there were some bright patches of snappy dialogue and interesting little character traits, such as the lead being someone who likes to fix things, including her co-workers.

Slate blue peaks studded with white foamy caps, line after line, each wave preceded by another and every one followed by another, as wide as the world was wide, and above it the sky, which was white, flat and cold, the sun a brighter patch hovering in the distance.

Prompted by the closure of two Waterstone's store in Dublin and the receivership of The Sunday Tribune, the discussion was a little glum but not without its bright patches.

Considered one of first of the visual aptitudes to diminish over time, the ability to pick out bright patches is key to tasks like driving at night.

Haynes's brighter patches, too, emphasize the horizontal format, and they make a nearly square work look wider, like her diptychs some years ago.

More color contrast can be seen in the middle of the shape as a bright patch of yellow lights up the center and appears to attract mysterious creatures represented with reddish - orange geometric forms varying in shape and size.