Sentences with phrase «empty patch»

A couple of years ago astronomers trained the Hubble Space Telescope on a fairly empty patch of sky and left it there for ten days, trying to catch whatever photons straggled in.

If they encounter too many empty patches, they starve, and by the end of the level it's game over.

Penn Cove Shellfish and the UW researchers joined forces after company harvesters saw empty patches on some cultivation ropes that should have had mussels.

But as Hurricane Irma illustrated earlier this month, tropical cyclones also can temporarily empty a patch of coastline of its water.

But this galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void.

Orientation Vang Vieng town lies in between the Nam Song river and the old airstrip, now a large empty patch that runs parallel to Route 13.

The movie vacillates between shots that belong to comedy — conventional over-the-shoulder shots that let you feel like you're in on the conversational joke — and shots that belong to horror — empty patches of screen that make you feel like someone could jump out at any moment.

One camp claims the empty patches, known as fairy circles, are created by termites under the soil clearing vegetation around their nests.

And if you're looking for something quieter, find an empty patch of sand and read, talk, or tan in peace and relaxation.

It's not quite as spacious as the ES — anyone over about 5 feet 9 is going to be sad if forced to ride in the back seat — but it will commute just as well and is a lot more fun when presented with an empty patch of twisty road.

I just sat there for a moment, unable to do more than stare at the empty patch of sky where it had been a second earlier.

Your job is to cultivate an empty patch of land, build your very own colony with houses, farms and more.

Such games might fill up the empty patches in the release schedules above or might spill over to 2018.