Sentences with phrase «degrees of sky»

It is impossible to get a good photograph of the entire cluster because the galaxies are faint objects scattered across 15 degrees of the sky, and a large angle photograph would be swamped by thousands of foreground stars in our own galaxy.

This is the most famous of the two clusters because it has a compact core of galaxies scattered across two degrees of the sky which makes it a popular target for amateur astronomers.

It is not possible to get a good photograph of the entire Virgo cluster because the galaxies are rather faint and small objects scattered across 15 degrees of the sky.

This map shows the entire emission nebula, which extends across four degrees of the sky, which at a distance of 1900 light years corresponds to a diameter of 130 light years.

LIGO was able to determine the location of the black hole collision only to within an area spanning 600 square degrees of the sky.

This search examined only 1.2 square degrees of the sky but turned up seven objects, including the one discovered in 1992.

This allows astronomers to make a mosaic image of any size... so they created this astonishing map of the constellations Cassiopeia (the Queen) and Cepheus (the king), covering over 1000 square degrees of sky!

The astronomers scanned photographic plates covering 750 square degrees of sky, picking out faint objects.

Shortly after a burst of neutrinos from a nearby supernova, the detector could direct astronomers to zero in on a few degrees of sky.

Not exact matches

The virtual reality short, called «Pete's Dragon: Elliot's Flyover,» was shot with Nokia's newly released OZO 360 - degree camera to capture the mountains, skies, and canyons of New Zealand.

Of course, matching the landscape to your degree of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging iOf course, matching the landscape to your degree of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging iof extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging it.

Often God has been envisioned as «the great big man up in the sky», in that he is given the attributes of masculinity which society has developed and is denied, save in some slight degree, the feminine qualities which in our culture have unhappily been regarded as somehow inferior to the masculine ones.

People are not the same there are many Ranks, Degrees, Levels of Human Waves from down scratch status to highest above the sky financial status and surely that has direct effect on mentality and humor among each level... beside that there are the peasants and tribals in remote areas and cities out skirts who work in the cities but there are people of the cities which are highly educated and good status.

One day it feels like the middle of summer, beautiful blue skies, 80 degrees.

The temperature is a balmy 55 degrees, but the sun still shines brightly in the eastern sky with hues of orange.

Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore told Sky Sports News: «There was a big concern that the Premier League has been playing two or three match rounds with a degree of uncertainty between themselves.

a) No oceans exist ever, b) the temperature rockets as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, and c) the apparent azure sky actually comes from a deadly weather pattern: rain made of molten glass.

That's a big chunk of sky — the full moon covers only 0.2 square degrees — but it's an area 10 times smaller than what could have been determined with the LIGO detectors alone.

The Virgo and LIGO detectors found that the new black - hole merger occurred in a patch of sky measuring 60 square degrees.

The trio of detectors allowed scientists to trace the source of the waves to a spot in the sky with an area of just 60 square degrees.

By timing the arrivals of the signals at all three detectors, which differ by milliseconds, researchers were able to determine that the black hole merger took place somewhere within a 60 - square - degree patch of sky in the Southern Hemisphere.

Thanks to about a thousand hours of observation by the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have compiled a dark matter map of a tiny slice of the sky, about two square degrees of the entire sky's 40,000 - square - degree span.

Today this light, called the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, fills the sky with an almost uniform glow — almost, because some pockets of the sky are a few millionths of a degree warmer or colder than average.

Jon: We had a string of two and a half weeks where we, you know, if you are skied on [at all], you know what a kind of a spring ski day is — the weather like that is beautiful — big blue skies, temperatures into, not always, but into the 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which is not what you think about when you think of Antarctica.

Kepler's field of view covers 100 square degrees, around 0.25 percent of the sky, or as Koch puts it, «about two scoops of the Big Dipper.»

This flat rainbow is called a circumhorizontal arc, a rare phenomenon that can form only when the sun is above 58 degrees in the sky and shines through plates of ice crystals.

Because all three gravitational - wave detectors saw the signal, physicists could triangulate and locate the source to within a 30 - square - degree patch of sky — about 60 times the size of the moon and much more precise than Fermi's localization.

Another result that we don't really understand is that we don't see any temperature fluctuations in the microwave background on scales larger than 60 degrees [the angular size in the sky of the fluctuations].

What You Can See: Venus passes close, just 0.2 degrees north of Jupiter in the predawn sky Aug. 18.

His team — a Greek and two Sudanese archaeologists, a pair of conservators from Italy and Austria, and an American archaeological surveyor — are at the dig site today, trying to accomplish as much as they can before the sun rises higher in the sky and the desert temperatures soar beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The team examined spatial scales on the sky spanning about one to five degrees (two to ten times the width of the full Moon).

The great attraction of blue sky research is that it gives researchers a high degree of freedom in deciding the direction of their work, subject to funding.

That constrained the site to within a region of about 30 square degrees in the southern sky.

The dean of the institute's engineering school knew just the guy to spearhead Piccard's pie - in - the - sky project: André Borschberg, a mechanical engineer with a business degree and a track record of risky start - ups.

Thanks to an improved algorithm to analyze the images, Schrabback's team could study in great detail the shapes of over 446,000 galaxies in a 1.64 square degree patch of sky.

In one of ASKAP's first images, it observed an area of the southern sky covering 10 square degrees (50 times the size of the full moon) by capturing nine overlapping zones simultaneously.

The DMR measures temperature differences between regions of the sky 60 degree apart at three frequencies: 31.5, 53 and 90 gigahertz (wavelengths of 9.5, 5.7 and 3.3 millimetres).

This happens in part because trees in warmer, maritime forests radiate heat in the form of long - wave radiation to a greater degree than the sky does.

Chad Moore has a Master's degree in Earth Science, but spends much of his time looking up into the night sky.

The bulk of the scattered sunlight shows a cloud that was about a half degree across on the «sky» background, comparable in size to the Earth's moon as seen from Earth.

At present, dust and large fragments from Comet Shoemaker - Levy form a band in the sky an arcminute wide (1 arcminute is one - sixtieth of a degree).

Of course, the region of the sky 42 degrees away from that point is not just one direction but a whole collection of directions, one that forms a circle around the antisolar poinOf course, the region of the sky 42 degrees away from that point is not just one direction but a whole collection of directions, one that forms a circle around the antisolar poinof the sky 42 degrees away from that point is not just one direction but a whole collection of directions, one that forms a circle around the antisolar poinof directions, one that forms a circle around the antisolar point.

Researchers have been able to narrow down the location of this new gravitational wave, called GW170814, to an area of 60 square degrees in the sky.

The POLARBEAR experiment examined a small (30 degree square) region of the sky to produce high resolution maps of B - mode polarization, which enabled the team to determine that the amplitude of gravitational fluctuations they measured was consistent with the leading theoretical model of the universe, known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model.

The computers merge the data to produce a high - resolution picture of a 10 - degree patch of sky centered near the North Star.

In 2003, the Anglo - Australian Observatory released a much larger survey («2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey») of over 221,000 galaxies in two slices that extend over 1.5 billion light years in a two - degree field of the sky.

TESS camera array has four 16.4 - megapixel imaging units, each covering a square of sky 24 degrees across.

Seen towards the constellation Taurus it covers nearly 3 degrees (6 full moons) on the sky corresponding to a width of 160 light - years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light - years.

The band of hydrogen gas, called the «Magellanic Stream», extends almost 90 degrees across the sky away from the Magellanic Clouds and may be the result of an encounter they experienced with the Milky Way about 200 million years ago.

The three panels show 10 - square - degree patches of sky maps created by space missions capable of detecting the cosmic microwave background.