Sentences with phrase «early epochs of»

MUSE's science goals include delving into the early epochs of the Universe to probe the mechanisms of galaxy formation and studying both the motions of material in nearby galaxies and their chemical properties.

Foreground galaxy clusters can warp and magnify the light of distant, background proto - galaxies, for instance, allowing cosmologists to catch glimpses of early epochs of the universe.

Astronomers have never been able to study normal galaxies in much detail in this early epoch of the universe.

Its rim exposes rocks from the earliest epoch of Martian history, when liquid water was abundant.

The carbon atoms that are essential to life on Earth were forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars that lived and died in an earlier epoch of the Universe, and which seeded the clouds out of which our own Sun and the Solar System were formed.

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

Vesta has an iron core, formed during the period in which the protoplanet was molten, at the earliest epoch of the Solar System; Dawn's measurements of Vesta's gravitational field have confirmed this.

This cosmic archaeology dig could revolutionize our view of the earliest epochs of our universe.

Often called the Big Bang's afterglow, this radiation fills the universe and can be detected, so it's handy for investigating the earliest epoch of our universe's existence.

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He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period of the early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American church history.»

If the epochs are that discrete, how can they, in their early phases, grasp the characteristics of their predecessors?

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

From the first literary strictures against Judaism in ancient and early Christian times to almost any major manifestation of anti-Jewish animus in a later epoch, a crescendo in violence has unfolded, each grade of which has promised to be the upper limit but which unfailingly paled before what followed.

So that now, even when the same assertion is made today as was made a thousand, or fifteen hundred years ago, it is made subject to limitations or expansions of meaning, which were not contemplated at the earlier epoch.

He emphasized repeatedly the enormous value of this kind of personal contact with the contemporary religious forms for the student of religion who ordinarily studies these forms only from literary documents belonging largely to the historical origins or early classical epochs of those religions.

The word is most often used for the great universal systems that arose two and a half millennia ago to supersede the local religions of the earlier epoch.

This would imply a total community of about two million, a preposterous figure which may result from the retrojection of census figures compiled in the days of the monarchy, centuries later, to this early epoch.

We presume further to place him within rather narrow limits of time, considering the relative antiquity of his epoch — i.e., before the death of Solomon and, at the earliest, the final years of David's reign.

Looking back in time to 16 different epochs between 11 and 13 billion years ago, the researchers discovered almost 4000 early galaxies, many of which will have evolved into galaxies like our own Milky Way.

The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization will help pinpoint the earliest stars» births.

At that early epoch, cosmologists expected to see mostly small building blocks of today's galaxies.

The giraffids, a family of ruminants that includes modern day giraffes and okapis, are thought to have existed as far back as the early Miocene epoch.

Astronomers chalked up Ceres's oddities to its being a relic from an early, formative epoch of our solar system, when planets coalesced from many Ceres - like objects caroming around the sun.

They found six times as many of the most luminous galaxies in this epoch compared to earlier surveys, while the dimmer ones were about twice as numerous as previously thought, according to findings published 22 September in Nature.

Dodelson: Again referring to this dark energy today, there are two possibilities that lead to optimistic branches and one is that dark energy today may not be vacuum energy, it may be something completely different; and a good piece of evidence for that is that inflation itself require [s] dark energy, so it kind of make sense to think, [«Well, we had some early [epoch] of dark energy which is something [we're trying to] figure out, maybe [today] there is also [a] new type of dark energy we are trying to figure out and it is not vacuum energy, so that would lead to a less pessimistic future.

The lion's share of the clay deposits found on Mars thus far have turned up in terrains that date back to the earliest Martian epoch, known as the Noachian period.

What makes the discovery even more important is that these footprints date back to the Early Jurassic epoch, when it was thought the size of most theropod dinosaurs was considerably smaller.

Then, as the world warmed early in the Holocene epoch, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the pine gave way to a dense woodland of oak, maple, and birch inhabited by smaller prey like deer and wild boar.

Dr Knoll added: «In South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Namibia, there is good record of theropod footprints from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic epochs.

New observations show that tiny galaxies in the early universe could have triggered the epoch of reionization — a period when harsh radiation tore apart hydrogen atoms — which astronomers consider key to understanding how stars and galaxies arose from the universe's early dark void.

However, to really learn more about the epoch of reionization, scientists need more than just one or two early, distant quasars to look at.

The researchers searched one - tenth of the entire sky visible from Earth and found just one quasar from this early epoch.

Although impressive, the number of galaxies found at this early epoch is not the team's only remarkable breakthrough, as Johan Richard from the Observatoire de Lyon, France, points out, «The faintest galaxies detected in these Hubble observations are fainter than any other yet uncovered in the deepest Hubble observations.»

The fossil was recovered from sedimentary rock strata that were deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years ago, during the early part of the Eocene epoch.

The quasar dates from a time close to the end of an important cosmic event that astronomers referred to as the «epoch of reionization»: the cosmic dawn when light from the earliest generations of galaxies and quasars is thought to have ended the «cosmic dark ages» and transformed the universe into how we see it today.

The discovery of this quasar, named SDSS J0100 +2802, marks an important step in understanding how quasars, the most powerful objects in the universe, have evolved from the earliest epoch, only 900 million years after the Big Bang, which is thought to have happened 13.7 billion years ago.

This article traces the development of stabilized lasers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology passive - stabilization experiments of the early 1960's up through the current epoch of highly stabilized helium - neon and carbon dioxide and continuous wave dye lasers.

Smith referred a request for comment to his lawyer, Ken Clark of law firm Aird and Berlis in Toronto, Canada, who notes that many of the republications duplicated material from conference proceedings, which in an earlier epoch would not usually have been published.

Most of these water - related surface features, however, date back to very early in Mars» history — the epochs known as the Noachian and the Hesperian, which ended about 4 billion and 3 billion years ago respectively.

Her thesis work was on the contribution of little galaxies to reionization, an epoch in early cosmological history that is still not well understood.

One of the earliest paleoenvironments of the Turkana basin was the Apak flood plain of the Pliocene epoch.

Perhaps the best hope for a more general and comprehensive probe of these early epochs is the 21 cm hyperfine transition line of neutral hydrogen, redshifted to frequencies below 200 MHz.

As of April 23, 2009, GRB 090423 is the earliest detected object in the universe, found earlier than GRB 080913 or 050904 during the Epoch of Reionization.

All three gamma - ray bursts (GRB 090423, 080913, and 050904) occurred during the Epoch of Reionization in the early universe.

With this exceptional leap in performance, new domains in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation history of planetary systems.

The cassock is no longer the marker of respect it had been in earlier epochs but has become, after the revelations of rampant pedophilia and the churchly abuse of power in Catholic Ireland, a badge of opprobrium he wears with the stubborn martyrdom of a hair shirt.

Earlier this month, we finally got some new about Stella Glow (a Strategy - RPG by Image Epoch) after months of complete...

I mentioned earlier that the era of a coming - of - age film is, more than anything else, an incidental environmental backdrop, but as epochs go, I can't deny how satisfying it is to see my own underused zeitgeist explored with such love and care.

The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces of early civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets of a magnificent lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.

As today's instruments of meaningful articulation and expression are undergoing an equally dramatic reassessment, The Idiosyncratic Pencil will explore the early 21st Century artist's response to the rapidly evolving nature of image making in this breakneck, feverish, media - saturated, and over-stimulated epoch.