Sentences with phrase «constellation of»

Dupree and her colleagues came to this conclusion after observing HD 6833, a yellow giant star in the constellation of Cassiopeia, which resembles the giant stars in globular clusters.
The team also looked at a phenomenon called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, characterized by a constellation of symptoms, such as fatigue, generalized musculoskeletal pain and cognitive slowing, that can occur six months after an initial diagnosis of Lyme.
The scientific world has often seemed a bit cool toward women and minorities, but today a constellation of factors ranging from budget cuts to court rulings conspire to create a frigid climate for programs designed to promote diversity in the scientific work force.
The disorder encompasses an odd constellation of symptoms, including overwhelming daytime drowsiness, uncontrollable sleep attacks, and cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscle tone after an intense emotional outburst, like a good laugh.
The team used the UK's William Herschel Telescope, sited on La Palma in the Canary islands, to observe infrared light from phosphorus and iron in the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant around 6500 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Taurus.
The Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey included the star cluster NGC 1333, 1000 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.
The last several years have seen an explosion of interest in the constellation of bacteria that call the gut home, and these microbes appear to play a role in everything from immunity to metabolism to mood.
The host star, Kepler - 186, is an M1 - type dwarf star relatively close to our solar system, at about 500 light years and is in the constellation of Cygnus.
A constellation of new satellites are showing details of precipitation across the planet like never before
«This allows you to see how that overall constellation of points is changing from shape to shape,» Vitek said.
The ostensible link might augment our understanding of what causes the complex constellation of symptoms associated with PTSD.
They are located 24 million light - years from Earth in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).
The pronounced over-density appears projected in the direction of the constellation of Gemini, which fits the close encounter with Scholz's star.»
But even without the help of telescopes like the VLT, a glance towards the southern constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish or Dolphinfish [1]-RRB- on a clear, dark night reveals a blurry patch which, at first sight, appears to be just like a cloud in Earth's atmosphere.
That's the weekend staked out for the World Science Festival, a scattered constellation of panels, interviews, debates, workshops and cultural events in New York City.
This is a star - forming region about 450 light years away in the southern constellation of the Chamaeleon.
FROM 93 light years away in the constellation of Perseus, the Demon Star winks at us.
The data comes from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM), a constellation of international and domestic satellites that estimate rainfall and snowfall every three hours.
The centre of our Galaxy, 27 000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, is marked by a peculiar source of radio waves named Sagittarius A * (pronounced «ay star»).
The leading cause of death in women, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a constellation of ailments affecting the heart and blood vessels, including conditions such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and diseases of the small blood vessels, such as in the eyes and kidneys.
Arnold and Gilmore noticed that four blue horizontal - branch stars in the constellation of Cetus stood out.
The star, named HD 98800, is 65 light years away in the constellation of Crater.
A CONSTELLATION of next - generation communications satellites has a surprise in store for the environment.
Yet inflammation reinforces some more than others, potentially establishing a plausible constellation of mechanisms responsible for aging.
One of IBM's first projects will be to develop a system that would allow a small - town doctor to investigate a strange constellation of symptoms.
Across the Pacific, the Manhattan Project was employing some 150,000 men and women, not to mention a constellation of geniuses and $ 2 billion.
A constellation of satellites can gather thousands of daily readings, as GPS satellites dip and rise above the horizon.
Just below the centre of this image is the blue, twisted form of galaxy NGC 2936, one of the two interacting galaxies that form Arp 142 in the constellation of Hydra.
The solution came from the Iridium network, a $ 5 billion constellation of 72 satellites that provided global telephone service to Motorola customers.
Stroe and Sobral observed the merging galaxy cluster CIZA J2242.8 +5301, nicknamed the «Sausage», located 2.3 billion light years away in the direction of the constellation of Lacerta in the northern hemisphere of the sky.
Several firms are now coming to market with designs that they say address those concerns, opening the door to the possibility that battery backups for renewables could one day form a constellation of self - sufficient microgrids far more resilient than the present electrical infrastructure.
In The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, Sheila Jasanoff — legal scholar and revered matriarch in the field of science and technology studies — invites us to consider technology not as a mere tool but as a constellation of norms, machines, and regimes that form interlocking and evolving new relationships.
These nearby objects include the Local Supercluster, a vast assemblage of galaxies to which our Galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs and the coma cluster, a galaxy cluster that lies a few hundred million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.
«For now, a tailored application of available data to the constellation of comorbidities and healthcare priorities of a particular patient remains the best approach for individualized hypertension management among older adults with CKD.»
The study fits within a constellation of other work by Wansink and others offering insights about how health behaviors can be manipulated by small changes, such as putting the most healthful foods first in a display or using a smaller dinner plate.
Tau Ceti is only 11.4 light years away in the constellation of Cetus.
Though the delicate touch I gave my eye yielded just one small flash, Wolfe said that when the eye is struck by something less forgiving — like a swinging door or Ira Blitz — many parts of the retina may be stimulated simultaneously, giving rise to a whole constellation of light.
Ordinary users can track this constellation of satellites with one of several Web sites or with an appealing public - domain software program called Home Planet, which can map any satellite you choose, GPS or not, against a projection of the Earth's surface.
It lies within the Milky Way, approximately 4600 light - years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, and consists of many sibling stars loosely bound together in what is known as an open cluster.
Planet Labs faces some difficult challenges, not least the engineering required to build, launch, power, position and communicate with a constellation of this size.
The constellation of Earth - imaging satellites launched yesterday — 28 individual sputniks, called «Doves,» each about the size of its namesake and weighing in at a svelte five kilograms — is on its way to the International Space Station.
Whillans drill camp sits 380 miles from the South Pole, a constellation of faint dots nearly invisible through the membrane of mist that often cloaks West Antarctica during the summer.
That is a huge issue and we are very cognizant of it and that's a global issue, but we are focused on this constellation of diseases.
So right now no one is teasing apart the constellation of symptoms that could provide more insights, including detecting infections and biotoxins.
Dennis Zaritsky of the Carnegie Observatories in California, observed two nearby spiral galaxies: NGC 2835, in the constellation of Hydra, and NGC 3521, in Leo.
Its report envisioned the revamped NRC as «a constellation of large - scale, sectoral collaborative R&D centres involving business, the university sector and the provinces.»
A $ 7,500 federal tax credit and a constellation of state and local incentives, from rebates to access to carpool lanes to free parking, already lower the cost of purchasing one of the clean cars.
The bright object seen in this Hubble image is a single and little - studied star named TYC 3203 -450-1, located in the constellation of Lacerta (The Lizard).
Bellerophon The nickname for 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found around a sunlike star, named after the Greek mythological hero who rode the winged horse Pegasus, which by no coincidence is the constellation of the host star.
Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.
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