Sentences with phrase «hundreds of objects in»

In the past decade, astronomers have spotted hundreds of objects in the Kuiper belt, one of them (Eris) even bigger than Pluto.

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

The robot's vision can now «read» stop signs (rather than rely on a map to plot them out) and differentiate between hundreds of objects in real time.

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The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

There are only a few fraternities on or off campus, and fewer than a hundred students live in them, but they have been the object of allegations of sexual assault, and students and faculty have demanded that something be done.

Loyalty to the nation - state has been a principal object of the communications and educational systems of the family and of the national community for a few hundred years — a relatively short period in man's history.

Before the methane storage project was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2014, hundreds of citizens tried every possible legal means to prevent the expansion of fracked gas storage at Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people and to object to a form of industrialization that places us in harm's way.

In fact it's a tight collection of several hundred thousand stars, most of which are packed into a ball just a few light - years across (though the whole object is over 100 light - years in diameterIn fact it's a tight collection of several hundred thousand stars, most of which are packed into a ball just a few light - years across (though the whole object is over 100 light - years in diameterin diameter).

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but the hundreds of amulets in his collection — many of them phallic objects from Egypt, Rome, and Japan — reflect Freud's interest in magic and religion.

«The first near - Earth object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been found.

In the course of the mission, Wright predicts, «we'll see hundreds of millions of sources, and we'll find millions of brand - new objects that nobody knew existed.»

Since that discovery hundreds of large objects, most more than 100 kilometers in diameter, have been spotted in the Kuiper Belt, including some of the roughly Pluto - size bodies that spurred a redefinition of the word «planet» and relegated Pluto to dwarf status.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

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.

Even larger objects, known as moonlets, were suspected to be disrupting the ring in such a way as to cause periodic jets of dust to shoot hundreds of kilometers into space.

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, bound together by gravity.

Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

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.

For objects bigger than 1 centimetre, the estimates are frightening: there are anything from hundreds of thousands to millions of them, mostly in unknown orbits and each capable of smashing a satellite to smithereens.

The first stars born in the universe are believed to have been massive objects, up to hundreds of times bigger than the sun.

The burning of fossil fuels is altering the ratio of carbon in the atmosphere, which may cause objects tested in the coming decades to seem hundreds or thousands of years older than they actually are, according a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Similarly to dwarf planets, there are potentially hundreds of plutoid objects in the solar system that have yet to be given official status.

In 2015, a hundred years after Albert Einstein realized that accelerating massive objects should produce them, these waves were finally detected from black holes with masses roughly 30 times the mass of our sun colliding with each other.

The discovery of five blazars from the universe's youth means there must be hundreds more similar objects, said astronomer Roopesh Ojha, with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

First, HDST must have a large primary mirror area both to gather enough photons (exoEarths are as faint as the faintest objects in the Hubble Deep Field) and to cleanly separate the planet and star for hundreds of star systems, many of which are tens of parsecs [2] away.

Saxena and his colleagues studied trans - Neptunian objects, a term scientists use to refer to literally anything in our solar system that orbits out past Neptune — probably hundreds of thousands of objects in all.

Sheppard and Trujillo suggest a super Earth or an even larger object at hundreds of AU could create the shepherding effect seen in the orbits of these objects, which are too distant to be perturbed significantly by any of the known planets.

To be fair, it's a lot easier to implement physics and custom animations and dismemberment for hundreds of different objects when said objects are made up of far fewer polygons, and appear in smaller numbers in smaller spaces.

We don't object to spelling out the entire plot of the Hundred Foot Journey (so called for the distance between the two rival restaurants) because it's a story we've seen a hundred times before in a hundred feel - good comedy Hundred Foot Journey (so called for the distance between the two rival restaurants) because it's a story we've seen a hundred times before in a hundred feel - good comedy hundred times before in a hundred feel - good comedy hundred feel - good comedy dramas.

Press and hold it, and hundreds of little flickering dots start to hover around in the frame and look for an object to identify.

Humans kill hundreds of millions of birds by using pesticides, decimating their habitats and placing objects in their way, such as cars, airplanes, windows and transmission towers and lines.

Caskets, flacons, distilling equipment and oils... breathe in all the secrets of perfume amidst hundreds of objects

Bethesda games are a lot more than just graphics: Huge worlds, thousands of objects with their own physics, hundreds of NPCs to interact with, lots of interiors, etc... While those aspects have been common in all Bethesda games, Fallout 4 introduces a lot of new features: Seamless transition between in and outdoors, massive customization options -LSB-...]

Wonderland Chapter 11 is a beautifully designed hidden object game for your browser, that features six incredibly detailed levels stuffed with hundreds of objects.The game starts in an old abandoned tower filled with clutter and junk.

Glyphs are not the only secret objects, however; there are also a hundred glowing feathers tucked away in hard - to - reach places, as well as the tombs of dead assassins.

With nearly two hundred objects, it becomes an exercise in obscurity and nostalgia, but also a handy look at goings - on in and out of Europe.

The exhibition will include hundreds of photographic works, along with additional materials including books, ephemera and objects - created by the artist in many formats and mediums of photography, allowing the viewers for a fuller understanding of the diversity of his output.

Besides, the show holds one hundred and twenty objects as it is, and the Studio Museum in Harlem extends it with the entirety of a recent series including images of the South, in strikingly large prints as well.

According to The Art Newspaper, the Terra Sancta Museum, as it will be known, will display some of the hundreds of rarely seen objects drawn from the Franciscans» collections in Jerusalem.

Hundreds of Asian art objects go to the Met and the MIA; the world's most expensive work by a woman artist turns up in Bentonville; and LACMA announces a major partnership

In space two, we want hundreds of objects, what do you suggest?

For his memorable «Large Field Array,» seen in New York in 2007 at Pace, he created a walk - in landscape of hundreds of seemingly random sculptural objects, a condensed encyclopedia of the chaos of images we live in.

With the help of around a hundred or so employees in his New York studio, he deals with popular culture subjects and often creates reproductions of banal objects, elevating their status to becoming works of art.

Featuring two - hundred objects, among which her minuscule size renderings of Southern architecture remain her best known works, the ambitious exhibition also includes her writings documenting her life until the final days in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she maintained a studio.

The exhibition explores Brown's process of collecting and arranging hundreds of domestic objects in his La Conchita, California home and studio.

He spent a sweltering summer in New York in 2007 scavenging hundreds of objects from junkyards and building sites for a vast work at the derelict Essex Street Market, sponsored by the arts group Creative Time.

«It's kind of a mini-retrospective,» says Dan Byers, co-curator of the 2013 Carnegie International, of the display, which includes hundreds of paintings, drawings, texts, found objects and photographs by the artist, now in his 70s, that span a 40 - plus year career.

He mixes more than one hundred works of art, movies, and music with a smaller amount of daily objects (the majority of artworks and figures in these artworks can be reassembled into a complete life too for they initially come from life) and places them into five situations.

The acceptance in lieu scheme was created in David Lloyd George's people's budget of 1910, with hundreds of outstanding objects and collections given as a way of settling tax bills.

It was then logical that his interest in music would inspire and lead him to create molds for the production of hundreds of musical objects made from their high - grade porcelain and glazes.