Sentences with phrase «celestial bodies»

The search for life on other celestial bodies in our solar system is focused on first locating water.

So, he says, is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and so is the Earth's moon, and so are more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under the prevailing definition of «planet.»

Online reader Abhishek wondered if waste flushed into space could make its way to other celestial bodies like the moon or Mars.

The 70 works featured in the show range from painting to woven installations to video projections, and span subjects as large as celestial bodies to as tiny as the flower of a bush plum.

In the second the composition splits into two zones, with celestial bodies in the upper part and an imaginary, vigorously brushed «landscape» below.

«They have a completely different origin from black holes that form from celestial bodies.»

Unlike the IAU, which prohibits naming celestial bodies after pets, living people, copyrighted material or ideologically charged individuals, Uwingu has looser restrictions.

Space Comet is celestial body which orbits in elliptical or parabolic around the Sun.

meteor An asteroid or other small celestial body from outer space that enters Earth's atmosphere.

Conversely, general relativity explains gravity and the behavior of large celestial bodies, but doesn't explain the other forces or the behavior of atoms.

As Marsden soon made clear, the rules that govern the naming of different celestial bodies render me outright ineligible for certain categories.

The theory of inflation, a super-fast expansion of space proposed in recent decades, fills in many important details, such as why slight lumps in the concentration of matter in the early universe coalesced into large celestial bodies such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Brightly coloured formal shapes evoke the orbiting celestial bodies of the solar system, while other elements — fragments of steel with raw welded edges, chains linked together to create beautiful drawn arcs, steel drums, engine blocks, buckets, pipes and baseball bats — suggest a grittier, industrial tenor.

With its new equipment, the Hubble will be able to look further into the universe and collect more information about celestial bodies.

Their simple site offers a brief, concise and thoroughly riveting history of timekeeping, from the days when celestial bodies acted as our clocks, through sundials, mechanical and quartz timepieces, right up to the establishment of time zones (Finally: the guiding principle behind the Prime Meridian!)

Astronomers measure the total radiation coming from the sky and subtract off the radiation generated by the instrument itself, by our own planet and civilization, and by known celestial bodies.

«The caution is, because it's international space, the moon and other celestial bodies don't belong to anyone,» he told TechNewsWorld.

Human exploration of planets and moons in the solar system has thus far taken place on dry land, thanks largely to the lack of liquid water on most celestial bodies.

Although the IAU's conservative description barred many celestial bodies access to the title of planet, it generated a new set of questions.

Recent solo exhibitions include Celestial bodies at 8 - 11 and Choreography for Screenat Mercer Union (both Toronto, ON).

The «upper world» included celestial bodies and weather forces personified in mythic characters that exerted influences on the human situation.

The historical exhibition features nine Aboriginal women artists, presenting work depicting remote celestial bodies, native plants, local traditions and the ancestral land connected to indigenous history.

The bright celestial bodies appeared side by side as they reached a «conjunction» point Tuesday night.

However, even when many dark celestial bodies emit radiation, the emission may be observed just as «cosmic background» radiation if the sensitivity and resolution of the telescope in use is insufficient.

 «The Maya were among the most advanced astronomers of their time. They used monuments, buildings and wooden implements to make fixed lines of sight for observing celestial bodies.

From many of these exterior locations, if you look far off into the distance you'll see the looming figure of the Mechonis, like a distant celestial body in the heavens.

Artist Statement «The Apollo 11 space mission captured the attention of millions worldwide when it successfully landed on and returned from the only other celestial body visited by man besides the...

Circling Earth, his frame of reference had been continents and oceans; through Apollo 8's windows he saw celestial bodies.

The first celestial body she checks is, naturally, Venus, the planet of love — and, she explains, there are certain signs that channel Venus» warm - and - fuzzy energy particularly well.

Even the names of our weekdays are named after certain celestial bodies.

40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

The Adler Planetarium will ask the Chicago Park District Board on Wednesday to approve a $ 2 increase in admission fees, which would double what senior citizens and students pay to view celestial bodies.

In recent years, the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, one of several efforts to detect celestial bodies wandering in front of stars in the galaxy, has recorded about 2,000 possible events annually.

An eclipse was not magic or illusion; it happened naturally when one celestial body got in the way of another one.

This means the parent body of the Almahata Sitta meteorite was on the larger side of the protoplanet scale — Mercury - to - Mars size — and that this space rock's remaining fragments are what's left of this ancient celestial body, Nabiei said.

They use a planet's gravitational field as a slingshot, which allows them to visit other celestial bodies without using up too much fuel.

In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers are patiently monitoring millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope.

For the past few years, Hamers has been looking at hierarchical systems, groups of three or more celestial bodies that orbit each other.

«Fascinating orbits: Celestial bodies surprisingly erratic.»

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

Eventually, this causes celestial bodies to lose orbital energy, and they will have shorter orbital periods of only a few days.»

Like an unseen spider visibly tugging on a web of gravitational strings, a hidden celestial body is luring distant space rocks into clusters of orbits too conspicuous to ignore.

This could amount to seasonal changes on the tiny celestial body.

The second prediction of general relativity that GP - B is testing is known as frame dragging, which is caused by a spinning celestial body dragging spacetime with it ever so slightly as it turns.