Sentences with phrase «flying through»

Scientists spot their first interstellar asteroid, Oumuamua: In October, astronomers spotted an object flying through the solar system on such a strange path that it was immediately clear it had come from a different neighborhood.

Looking for life at Saturn «wasn't on Cassini's pre-launch list,» she adds, but when the spacecraft confirmed Enceladus» salty, water ocean after flying through the moon's enigmatic plumes and taking samples, it became one of the most compelling places beyond Earth to find extraterrestrial biology.

What are the odds of successfully flying through an asteroid field like the one in The Empire Strikes Back?

That's the name given to birds as their feathers ignite, mid-air, after flying through a concentrated beam of sunlight.

«There's a doughnut around Jupiter, and we're flying through the doughnut hole,» explains Bill Kurth of the University of Iowa, who leads the Waves Instrument Team.

In case you haven't heard by now, a comet is basically a big ball of dirt and ice flying through our solar system.

Male orchid bees have a peculiar pastime: flying through the jungle collecting scents from plants to construct their own perfume.

This stupendous velocity provides additional support for the popular belief that black holes are the remains of detonated stars and might shed light on what sends them flying through space.

Often flying through open windows or attic vents, the embers set furniture and carpets ablaze and burn the house from the inside out.

«This is a beautiful piece of work,» says Gijs Nelemans of the University of Cambridge, U.K.. He's particularly interested in the potential insight into the nature of the kick that sends black holes flying through space.

«It's not a glass lens like you'd find in a camera,» Fischer said, «but we call the technique «electron lensing» because, like a lens that focuses light, the electron beam changes the trajectory of the protons flying through it.»

A user flying through GameSpace will encounter, for example, a large cluster of racing games, and can then investigate individual games or look nearby to find related kinds of games.

In fact, aircraft often trigger lightning when flying through a heavily charged region of a cloud.

Steve McNutt, a team member at the University of Alaska, US, believes the work will prove useful as an added dimension of hazard assessment, especially in issuing advisories for planes, which can be severely damaged by flying through volcanic plumes.

Due to the particular geometry of the plasma, particles flying through the channel don't experience any of the unwanted forces.»

As it darts for sugar water on the other side, it rapidly flaps its wings, flying through a laser - illuminated fog of vaporized olive oil particles.

So - called Plinian eruptions — named for Roman statesman Pliny the Younger, whose written observations of this very eruption have helped scientists piece together the story of Pompeii and Vesuvius — would instead send large and small chunks of solid, nonflaming pumice flying through the air.

Our planet, flying through space in a Charlie Chaplin wobble, momentarily, at 4:29 P.M. eastern time, tilts neither toward nor away from the sun.

The radar signals reflect off of birds and other animals flying through the air.

The instruments are used aboard research aircraft flying through clouds high above the western seaboard.

To this end, Brown University engineer Kenneth Breuer and biologist Sharon Swartz shot high - resolution 3 - D video of bats flying through a corridor filled with aerosolized particles to mark airflow patterns.

I had no recollection of flying through the air.

In 265 flights, the radiation levels detected generally followed the expected pattern, but in at least six instances they surged, as though the aircraft was flying through a radiation cloud (Space Weather, doi.org/bx8r).

«We have seen several cases where the exposure is doubled while flying through the cloud,» says ARMAS principal investigator W. Kent Tobiska, of Space Environment Technologies in Los Angeles.

We went to Barbados and after that, we caught up with a NASA team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during its expedition flying through Hurricane Earl in 2010.

The scientists were doing experiments while flying through hurricanes.

So they're flying through the gas phase.

«[Researchers] are adding high - speed cameras to airplanes flying through precipitation.

A SERIES of blasts that injured 14 people and sent 40 manhole covers flying through the air in Delhi last month were caused by a build - up of gases in the city's sewers.

Too much strain and a structure fractures, which is bad news if that structure happens to be keeping a building upright or people flying through the air.

A simple trick keeps droplets of liquid from flying through the air upon impact — which could lead to splashless labs, operating rooms and even urinals

New studies suggest lonely planets flying through intergalactic space were formed by star - destroying supermassive black holes.

Individual blood cells flying through capillaries can now be viewed in real time.

Scientists can only sample air pollution in clouds by flying through them, a method that can't cover much ground or a long time period.

«This is an incredible tool — you feel like you're flying through the lake, and it's the closest thing to actually being there I could imagine,» says Doran.

Having seen ample evidence that coyotes were responsible for his disappearing pets — cats flying through the cat door as if «chased by the devil» — Soulé had a theory: more coyotes meant fewer cats.

If only for a few seconds we could be a bat flying through the darkness with echolocation or a dolphin way down under the sea using sonar clicks.

If he is right, all drawings of Archaeopteryx flying through the daytime skies of early Earth will need to be revisited.

Her hallucinations have included «vicious snakes flying through the air; it was terrifying.»

By flying through the «saddle point» where the Earth and the sun's gravity cancel out, the craft might probe whether Einstein's theory still holds when gravitational accelerations are incredibly small.

The 3D virtual reality feature is astonishing and truly feels like you're flying through the air!

«Huge pieces of concrete were flying through the air.

The statement added that Governor Ambode and his entire cabinet, on behalf of the good people of Lagos State appreciate and congratulate the Fawehinmi family for keeping the flag of what Gani represents to the law profession and the civil society flying through the sustenance of the colloquium to celebrate his birthday annually.

(Can you imagine the arch shape an arrow might make when flying through the air?)

This guarantees our quality as our seamstresses are not flying through the diapers just make as many diapers as possible in one day.

We give time outs we tell show him how to play with the toy or how to set his cup or fork down and still it goed flying through the air.

With bumps showing up on Instagram, and gender - reveal parties flying through your Facebook fe...

With bumps showing up on Instagram, and gender - reveal parties flying through your Facebook feed, it's no wonder that people feel the need to announce their upcoming bundles of joy in a big way.

She is pumping but the baby is flying through her stash.

And if thoughts of suicide weren't frightening enough, Shields also suffered disturbing visions of seeing her daughter flying through the air, hitting a wall and then sliding down it, although, she is quick to clarify, she was never the one throwing her.