Sentences with phrase «hundreds of millions of light»

Dark matter constitutes the filaments — which researchers learned typically stretch and bend across hundreds of millions of light years — and the so - called halos that host clusters of galaxies are fed by the universal network of filaments.

«This FRB, like others detected, is thought to originate from outside of Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, which means their signal has travelled over many hundreds of millions of light years, through a medium that — while invisible to our eyes — can be turbulent and affected by magnetic fields,» Ryan Shannon from Australia's ICRAR - Curtin University, the co-lead author of a study detailing the observation, said in a statement.

Eight bright X-ray sources located far beyond the galaxy at distances of hundreds of millions of light - years were observed with Chandra, which revealed that the X-rays from these distant sources are absorbed selectively by oxygen ions in the vicinity of our galaxy.

Theory predicts that you'd have to go out hundreds of millions of light - years, where matter is spread randomly rather than finely structured, before the overall expansion should outgun localized motions.

Harrison's model can explain features of the Universe that have stumped cos - mologists, such as huge chains of galaxies that stretch for hundreds of millions of light years.

An example is the Great Attractor, a huge wall of galaxy clusters that stretches hundreds of millions of light - years across and is located nearly half a billion light - years away from us.

In recent years, Margaret Geller and John Huchra of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have compiled three — dimensional maps of the Universe which show galaxies spread in thin sheets surrounding bubble - like voids hundreds of millions of light years across.

ORIGIN STORY Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may travel hundreds of millions of light - years to reach detectors on Earth, a new study shows.

Cordes estimates the source of Arecibo's repeating FRB is perhaps a few hundreds of millions of light - years away but acknowledges it could also be in a particularly plasma - rich galaxy much closer.

Such maps reveal the existence of superclusters and filaments of galaxies hundreds of millions of light - years across.

Not exact matches

Two hundred dollars is a considerable commitment for four light bulbs, but Philips is looking to entice people into a high - end smart home lighting experience that includes bulbs that not only dim on command, but can also «bathe your home in millions of colors.»

It's been a few hundred years now without an adequate explanation of why dinosaur fossils exist, or how we can see light from galaxies millions of light years away.

According to Jeans its diameter is about 200,000 light - years and it takes 3 million years to complete a single revolution, at a peripheral speed of several hundred miles per second.

«yet today He is the light that lights the hearts of the human race, the adored leader of hundreds of millions of the earth's inhabitants.»

Governor Cuomo even proposed spending hundreds of millions of dollars on an LED light show on the bridges to attract tourists, while below ground, native New Yorkers are trapped in packed, sweaty train cars.

«Where is the evidence that spending hundreds of millions on Harbor Lights will generate enough tourism to be a good investment?»

It's located about 500 light - years from Earth and contains several hundred protostars, the oldest of which are about 1 million years old.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

A small world that today sits in the habitable zone of an M dwarf spent hundreds of millions of its early years blasted with more intense light.

Based on the amount of stretch, the team knew that EDGES measured light released when the universe was a few hundred million to a billion years old.

Borucki's basic concept was rescued by the emergence of the charge - coupled device, or CCD — the light - sensing chip that was then new and is now in hundreds of millions of digital cameras.

The oldest light we see around us today, called the cosmic microwave background, harkens back to a time just hundreds of millions of years after the universe was created.

Fusion is the process of generating energy by melding together light atoms; it requires heating the fusion fuel (hydrogen isotopes) to tens or hundreds of millions of degrees.

The Perseus cluster is a dense collection of hundreds of large and small galaxies located 240 million light years away.

The objects are made up of hundreds of millions of stars densely packed together on an average of 100 light years across.

The two biologists studied the silk gene to shed light on hundreds of millions of years of spider evolution.

Although this idea seems implausible, it is one interpretation of the discovery that there is a pattern in the red shifts of nearly a hundred galaxies out to a distance of about 50 megaparsecs (more than 160 million light years) from our own.

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

These nearby objects include the Local Supercluster, a vast assemblage of galaxies to which our Galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs and the coma cluster, a galaxy cluster that lies a few hundred million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

Although ultraviolet light from stars would break apart water molecules, after hundreds of millions of years an equilibrium could be reached between water formation and destruction.

«We're detecting particles that started out hundreds of light - years away that have traveled for millions of years, and after all that time they're coming to an end here in our detector,» Murphy marvels.

It has many hundreds of galaxies (mostly spirals and irregulars) distributed into an irregular shape about 10 million light years across.

It's probably the remains of a star that exploded hundreds or millions of years ago, and whose light is only now reaching our skies.

Our own Milky Way Galaxy sports around 150 of them, each one containing anywhere from a hundred - thousand to several million stars crammed into volumes about 100 light years across.

As the distance to that galaxy is only 70 Megaparsec or 230 million light years, we are able to examine the jet structure with an unprecedented accuracy of only a few hundred black hole radii or 12 light days», concludes Professor Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and head of its VLBI research department, a co-author of the paper.

The first stars lit up a few - hundred - million - years - long «Dark Age» with spectacular intensity, leading to the rapid creation of heavy elements and black holes that coalesced to form bright quasars (more).

This picture was published in newspapers and magazines around the world because it showed the Coma cluster (looking like a strange stick - man figure) at the centre of a Great Wall of galaxies with a length of about six hundred million light years.

But Marvel, like most major studios with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, is not known for calling an audible just prior to production of arguably the most massive tentpole film in their roster, any more than it's going to green - light a Black Widow film until well after Jennifer Lawrence has made one of her own.

The million dollar question (or at least a couple of hundred dollars) is do you value your work enough to pay for it to see the light of day

There is a lot of heat now, ten billion degrees of it, enough to begin the nuclear reactions that create the lighter elements — principally hydrogen and helium, with a dash (about one atom in a hundred million) of lithium.

Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away encompassed a cube - shaped, mirror - paneled room that featured a shallow reflecting pool as its floor; hundreds of multicolored LED lights were suspended at varying heights from the ceiling, flickering on and off in a strobelike effect.

Beginning with the milestone installation Infinity Mirror Room — Phalli's Field filled with hundreds of red - spotted phallic tubers, the exhibition will also include Infinity Mirror Room — Love Forever, a hexagonal box with a peephole and reflecting flashing lights, Dots Obsession — Love Transformed into Dots, the room filled with balloon sculptures of vinyl, the Obliteration Room, an all - white replica of a domestic setting that will be covered with colorful dots, and more recent Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity and Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, spectacular LED environments filled with lanterns or crystalline balls.

Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away is a small, square room lined with mirrors and hung with hundreds of tiny colored lights.

Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away encompassed a cube - shaped, mirror - paneled room that featured a shallow reflecting pool as its floor; hundreds of multicolored LED lights were suspended at varying heights from the ceiling, flickering on and off in a strobelike effect.

2016: Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel / Muttenz; Collaborative exhibition with Douglas Gordon, Taro Nasu, Tokyo (JP); 2015: Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL); Claymation, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (I); All the possible combinations of twelve lights lighting (one at a time), MACRO Foyer, Rome (I); Many Hands Make Light Work (with Rodney Graham), Until Then, Paris (F); Anything by the Smiths, CAN, Neuchâtel; 2014: I ❤ 1984, Lisson Gallery, London (UK); monk > < nannucci (with Maurizio Nanucci), Quartz Studio, Turin (I); I went to school with someone called Jonathon Monk, Casey Kaplan, New York (USA); IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art project space, Dublin (IE); Jonathan Monk a Riso, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Fondazione Sambuca (I); The Reader, Taro Nasu, Tokyo (JP); More Than Four Hundred Million Ways, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe (D); Left Foot, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (DK); 2013: COLOURS SHAPES WORDS (pink, blue, square, circle), CAC Malaga (E); Less Is More Than One Hundred Indian Bicycles (with words from Rirkrit Tiravanija and a Silver Shadow), Kunstraum Dornbirn (AUT); In Between Exhibitions I, II, III, IV, Yvon Lambert, Paris (F); Senza Titolo, Lisson Gallery, Milan (I); Egg, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève; 2012: «They came out of nowhere «he said, pointing to nowhere (with Ryan Gander), Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo (JP); Who Ate All The Pies?

Sometimes I get pretty depressed about turning corn into fuel, whacking eagles out of the sky by blades or frying them by reflecting light into a parabolic concentrator, demonizing clean safe cheap nuclear power, killing the poor by the hundreds of thousands perhaps millions by denying them food and cheap energy.

Over hundreds of millions of years the Sun actually warms up due to complicated processes in its core, but over, say, 100,000 years the heat and light we get from it is pretty much rock - constant.

in 152 countries on seven continents, «Hundreds of millions of people around the world turn off their lights for one hour on the same night, to focus on the one thing that unites us all — our planet.»

A mind - boggling side - light: estimates of the volume of non-digitized or hard - copy data range in the hundreds of millions of pages; NCDC alone has a digital archive of 56 million page images, and literally thousands of boxes of unscanned hard - copy in their basement.

Two hundred dollars is a considerable commitment for four light bulbs, but Philips is looking to entice people into a high - end smart home lighting experience that includes bulbs that not only dim on command, but can also «bathe your home in millions of colors.»