Sentences with phrase «close image of the sun»

Push through a dark curtain, and you emerge blinking into a dark space lit by a huge, elemental orange sun, glimmering against a black background: Katharina Sieverding's projection Die Sonne Um Mitternacht Schauen, SDO / NASA (Looking at the Sun at Midnight), 2011 - 12, which uses high - resolution Nasa images to create a dramatic, up - close image of the sun's surface.

Not exact matches

If when you are not upset, you develop the habit of closing your eyes and picturing a place — for me it is a sun - warmed bolder by a very still lake — , you will be able to pull up that image at a moments notice.

Cassini does not attempt many images of Earth because the sun is so close to our planet that an unobstructed view would damage the spacecraft's sensitive detectors.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

In March of 2013, Luhman's analysis of the images from WISE uncovered a pair of much warmer brown dwarfs at a distance of 6.5 light years, making that system the third closest to the Sun.

The Hurt illustration does not represent the Orion spur very accurately and so instead I am using an image created by scientific illustrator Diana Marques that better represents the region of the Milky Way close to the Sun.

NASA Another false - color image of Halley's Comet Long - period, Oort - Cloud comets may have formed even closer to the Sun than Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt comets like Halley's.

This new image depicts the inner region of the jets around the black hole that is less than 4.2 light - years across, less than the distance between our Sun, Sol, and its closest known stellar neighbors, Alpha Centauri 3.

Cracco's influences range from astronomy to particle physics to music, shifting and oscillating between the macro and the micro, between the illusions of light in works like Staring at the Sun (detail shown on top) and the disruptions the images dissolve into when viewed at close range.

The exhibition features images of close - ups of the Moon and its Henry Frères craters from the 1890s, the first photographs of the Sun from 1870 by Rutherfurd and from 1878 by Janssen, an image of the solar corona during a total eclipse proving the curvature of the light; catches of comets and shooting stars and, of course, the images of nebulae and galaxies taken between 1910 and 1960 by the observatories of Lick, Mont Wilson and Mont Palomar.

If the Sun is close to the horizon and feathery cirrus clouds sit high in the sky, «ghost» images of the Sun will sometimes materialize on either side of it, giving the appearance of three Suns shining in the sky.