Sentences with phrase «bright patches of»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

Three giants tower over their children; Tumbling rocks on an ancient river bed; Bright green moss connecting root and boulder; Branches reaching out in every direction to drink each drop of light; A spreading canopy over a pristine patch of forest.

Surrounded by up - and - coming critics wearing a variety of bright yellow ties (it was rumored that Borges, blind for over 20 years, could still see patches of yellow), he clutched and caressed a favorite cane, offering few insights into himself, the man of flesh and blood.

Most of our days here in Charlottesville have been cloudy, storms intermittently breaking up patches of bright yellow sunlight.

Bright color is not necessarily an indication of quality as some are dyed and some naturally have green patches even when fully ripe.

Usborne touch and feel books are cute stories with bright pictures and patches of different textures that are designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

Unlike most supernovae surveys, which look for bright bursts of light, Kochanek would monitor about 30 nearby galaxies for curious patches of darkness where a star had suddenly disappeared.

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

He was examining an 11 - inch - wide projected image of the sun, part of his routine monitoring of the solar surface, when he noted the eruption of «two patches of intensely bright and white light... the brilliancy... fully equal to that of direct sun - light.»

He studied a range of penguin species and found that those with patches of bright color received by far and away the most visual coverage.

Later that evening, when Packard examined the sonar data, he spied a potential target — a patch of bright speckles amid the smooth dark image.

The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.

That radical variation could be best explained by brighter and darker patches of its cloudy atmosphere (see image) rotating into view as the star spins on its axis, the researchers contend.

Noticeable are also two round, bright orange patches in the middle of the fin.

a) The Eye in your Thigh: a patch of skin cells on the leg that can distinguish between bright and dark conditions, perhaps to help regulate the body clock b) The Ear in your Rear: nerves in the buttocks attuned to infrasound vibrations of between 10 and 25 hertz, perhaps to warn of approaching predators or thunderstorms c) The Nose in your Toes: scent - detecting sebaceous glands on the feet whose purpose is unclear d) The Tongue in your Lung: taste - bud - like receptors that detect bitter substances and dilate or restrict the airways accordingly

Although the images are relatively low - resolution at just 6 meters per pixel, they reveal a bright object thought to be Schiaparelli's parachute, as well as a 15 - by -40-meter dark patch roughly one kilometer to the north of the parachute.

Pluto is notable for patches of both bright and dark material in a belt straddling its equator.

On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.

Is the bright, heart - shaped patch some kind of nitrogen frost or snow deposit?

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.

When females become fertile they develop bright orange patches on their normally pale underbelly and change their behavior towards males: instead of «waving them away» with their forelegs or fleeing, they let the males court them with showy behavior like push - ups and head bobs.

The bright red breast of Erithacus rubecula may be a welcome sight for humans in the drab winter landscape, but its appearance on the home patch of another robin is tantamount to a declaration of war.

On 28 March, NASA's Swift telescope detected several bright bursts of X-rays coming from a patch of the sky where no X-rays had been detected before.

To determine the insects» color preferences, researchers planted four different patches of flowers with 48 snapdragons each — 24 red and 24 of either ivory, white, pink, or bright - pink stripes on a white background — and watched for 3 weeks to see which flowers drew more bees.

Imagery released on 21 October from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the bright, reflective surface of a parachute, and 1 kilometer north of it, a dark patch on the ground where before there had been nothing.

The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

The spacecraft also took measurements of the planet's surface with a laser, which again suggested patches of ice — although some of the bright regions in the radar images showed up dark in the laser's readings.

The full visible - light image at left shows that the dark feature resides near and below a patch of bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere.

But previous radar observations viewed the apparent lakes at an angle, and therefore did not see bright radar glints reflected back from their surface, leaving open the possibility that the features were dry lake beds or patches of soot.

But Kepler covered only a small patch of sky containing few stars bright enough for us to study their planets.

It looks «spongy» because the patches are composed of small bright elements interlaced with dark voids in the TRACE images.

A sea of young, blue stars is streaked with dark dust lanes and studded with bright pink patches that mark sites of star formation.

The Gamma Cygni nebula consists of the various pink patches which can be seen surrounding Gamma Cygni - the bright star in the middle of this photograph.

These bright tracers include globular star clusters, planetary nebulae (dying stars that glow like neon lights), and patches of glowing hydrogen gas.

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.

This cloud is the bright Milky Way patch slightly above the center of our image; among many other Deep Sky objects (clusters and nebulae) one can find 10 more Messier objects in this image.

During a bike ride around the lake Andrew and I saw a huge field covered in endless patches of the bright yellow beauties.

Chokers are a hot thing too: mine is a thin satin ribbon matching the bright pink patches of my comics skirt and patent pumps.

Ultimately, a teacher's goal at the end of a semester is to gaze upon the shadows of all our departing learners and see that our lessons taught them to reach for a patch of blue sky, bright with significance and purpose.

Nevertheless, the Subaru's all - wheel drive, grippy tires, tight steering, and bright headlights help me navigate washed - out sections of road, fallen trees, and patches of gravel.

The bright red leather seats with their unique «1,000,000 th Corvette» embroidered headrest logos were carefully restored including some replacement patches of the same leather.

My gaze shot back outside, just in time to see another bright flash of silver as the craft streaked laterally across the landscape, then halted and hovered over an adjacent patch of terrain before zooming off again.

There are no shadowy dark patches here, but there's a line of brighter white up top, and at top brightness the colour appears to turn blueish towards the bottom.

Even with my eyes closed, I could tell by the wind and the little patches of bracing coolness and the sudden bright sunshine and the smell of manure when we were passing a hay field, a long thick stand of trees, a stretch of clover, or a horse farm.

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.

They can appear as a patch of bright red skin or an open skin lesion that resembles an ulcer or hot spot.

Bright blue starfish drape themselves across patches of coral, and bright yellow and black Moorish Idols dart through the Bright blue starfish drape themselves across patches of coral, and bright yellow and black Moorish Idols dart through the bright yellow and black Moorish Idols dart through the water.