Sentences with phrase «from objects in space»

Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.

«Because ultraviolet light from objects in space can be detected only by telescopes located outside Earth's atmosphere, Swift's UVOT telescope provided unique data on this event.

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Devices can superimpose 3D objects in various spaces, giving customers a chance to interact with digital renderings from the comfort of their own homes.

The brain neutralizes change by transferring it from the time within objects to the space between them, displacing the change that is ingredient in the object to a surface interaction as another property of space.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

The arrows run from the past3 to the present — for the «there» is antecedent, however slightly, in time as well as external in space to the «here» — and from objects to a subject.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERIn a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERin caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERin their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

With the «embedding» of digital facilities in more and more objects (from microwave ovens to jogging shoes), these acquire intelligent functions and communicative capacities and begin to create a permanent virtual life - space.

Instead of the contents of consciousness being treated as the subjective counterparts of objects in external space, Whitehead treats them as the residue resulting from natural transmutation processes that occur within that space.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

From the sudden and jagged pattern apparent in the image, the LROC team determined that the camera must have been hit by a tiny meteoroid, a small natural object in space.

Fairly quickly Batygin and Brown realized that the six most distant objects from Trujillo and Shepherd's original collection all follow elliptical orbits that point in the same direction in physical space.

Japanese engineers have developed a new system of acoustic levitation, using sound waves from four audio speakers to suspend solid objects in three dimensional space.

«We think we are seeing the collective light from millions of the first objects to form in the universe,» explains Alexander Kashlinsky of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who details the finding in the current issue of Nature.

Normal galaxies warp space - time in a way that can magnify light from objects behind them.

If virtual particles have gravitational charges, then space - time itself is imbued with a small charge that could be causing objects in the universe to speed away from each other.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects like neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

The vast bulk of asteroids — millions of individual objects ranging from 560 - mile - wide Ceres to pea - size pieces of space shrapnel — reside in a broad zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the legendary asteroid belt.

Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the meteorite «parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.

«It looks like important physical objects, such as curved space - times... emerge naturally from entanglement in tensor network states via holography,» writes physicist Román Orús of Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.

Whereas Newtonian gravity was a mysterious force that somehow emanated from mass and acted instantaneously over long distances, in Einstein's view a massive object simply curves the space - time fabric around it.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects such as neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

The motions of objects beyond the heliosphere showed that the charged gas, or plasma, that fills the space between stars should be much denser outside the border than within, and the Voyager team was at last convinced of an exit from the heliosphere thanks to a sudden increase in plasma density.

«From 423 miles in space, we'll be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond,» says Brender.

Giorgio Gratta, a physicist at Stanford University, is going fishing for high - energy neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that bombard Earth from unknown objects in deep space.

According to a report in the newsletter of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, a 3 - kilogram metallic object fell from the sky on the village of Ede, the Netherlands, on 4 March, piercing the ceiling of a post office.

Rather than treating space - time as an empty arena in which physical events unfold, Penrose postulates that objects called twistors build the fabric of space - time from the ground up.

When laser light is later shone through the interference pattern, the object or scene appears to float in space with sharp, vivid realness that can be hard to distinguish from real realness.

From the perspective of a celestial mechanic, an object's gravity creates a deep well or basin in space - time, with more massive bodies creating deeper wells.

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched in August, can see an object the size of Pluto located a few hundred astronomical units away [one astronomical unit is 96 million miles — the distance from the Earth to the s Sun], and Spitzer can detect a planet the size of Earth out to about 1,000 astronomical units.

Launched in July by the space shuttle Columbia, Chandra can view X-rays from very hot objects such as quasars and the gas falling into black holes.

and could be used to grasp objects in a wide range of settings, from factory floors to the International Space Station.

At any given moment, millions of projectiles from deep space are raining down, penetrating every object in their path.

Using calculations and data mining, the Spanish astronomers have found that the nodes of the 28 ETNOs analysed (and the 24 extreme Centaurs with average distances from the Sun of more than 150 AU) are clustered in certain ranges of distances from the Sun; furthermore, they have found a correlation, where none should exist, between the positions of the nodes and the inclination, one of the parameters which defines the orientation of the orbits of these icy objects in space.

Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.

In physics, in terms of a metric theory of gravitation, a gravitational wave is a fluctuation in the curvature of space - time which propagates as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or system of objectIn physics, in terms of a metric theory of gravitation, a gravitational wave is a fluctuation in the curvature of space - time which propagates as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or system of objectin terms of a metric theory of gravitation, a gravitational wave is a fluctuation in the curvature of space - time which propagates as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or system of objectin the curvature of space - time which propagates as a wave, traveling outward from a moving object or system of objects.

These high - energy cosmic neutrinos, which are likely to come from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, may originate in incredibly dense and powerful objects in space that prevent the escape of the high - energy gamma rays that accompany the production of neutrinos.

The process could be driving vast amounts of gas and dust toward the coalescing black hole, in turn causing intense energy to billow out from the object, says Neil Gehrels, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a member of the research team.

That means massive objects in space can act as lenses, focusing the light from objects even farther from Earth.

It can take military space watchers weeks to sort out each CubeSat's orbit, he says, and failure to be able to track and identify objects can prevent operators from being able to perform key activation tasks and result in the loss of a satellite.

Discovered in 1963, quasars are the most powerful objects beyond our Milky Way galaxy, beaming vast amounts of energy across space as the supermassive black hole in their center sucks in matter from its surroundings.

«This is the only object we have observed from this era,» says Robert Simcoe, the Francis L. Friedman Professor of Physics in MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.

A favored size for Planet X emerged — between five and 15 Earth masses — as well as a preferred orbit: antialigned in space from the six small objects, so that its perihelion is in the same direction as the six objects» aphelion, or farthest point from the sun.

The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low - Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.

The automated Sentry system identifies potentially hazardous Near - Earth Objects (NEOs — «objects» includes comets as well as asteroids) using observations from telescopes at observatories around the world and inObjects (NEOs — «objects» includes comets as well as asteroids) using observations from telescopes at observatories around the world and inobjects» includes comets as well as asteroids) using observations from telescopes at observatories around the world and in space.

In fact, when Chris Burrows of the European Space Agency did a detailed inspection of the Hubble images, he located a dim object that could be the source of the beams at the predicted location — about one - third light - year from the center of the supernova explosion.

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

It looks to us like there are photons and these other particles, but they might really be manifestations, projections, from a higher - dimensional space, of objects that are more conveniently described in our world by saying, «There is a photon,» or «There is a gluon.»

Accepting space and time as forms of animal sense perception (that is, as biological), rather than as external physical objects, offers a new way of understanding everything from the microworld (for instance, the reason for strange results in the two - slit experiment) to the forces, constants, and laws that shape the universe.

All groups who exercised saw some benefit, and those who exercised more saw more benefits, particularly in improved visual - spatial processing — the ability to perceive where objects are in space and how far apart they are from each other.