Sentences with phrase «immense distances»

If the ocean floor is rocky, the loud pulses fi red by seismic air guns — to generate waves that can be used to image the ocean floor — can travel immense distances.

Exploding stars seen across immense distances show that the cosmic expansion may be accelerating — a sign that the universe may be driven apart by an exotic new form of energy

Loeb and his co-author Manasvi Lingam (Harvard University) examined the feasibility of creating a radio transmitter strong enough for it to be detectable across such immense distances.

Woolly Mammoths, like elephants in Africa today, were the engineers of grasslands, keeping trees from growing onto the plains and dispersing large amounts of nutrients over immense distances via their dung.

Even within the same galaxy, immense distances separate our solar system from its closest neighbors; the nearest stars are over four light - years away in the Alpha Centauri system.

In the world view we share we have all been made aware of the rather insignificant role played by the planet on which we live; we know something of the solar system, and we have had impressed upon us the unbelievably immense distances which separate us from most of the stars we see in the sky with our naked eyes.

The burst's immense distance makes the now - dead star the earliest object to be discovered from an era called «reionisation `, which occurred within the first billion years after the big bang.

In attempting to capture her full career of experimentation, spanning canvas and steel plates, representational painting and conceptual abstraction, (not to mention her printmaking, collages, and multimedia commissions) it is easy to lose sight of how Bartlett has covered immense distance through a lifetime of infinitesimal steps.

Since observing to such immense distances is also looking back in time, the map reveals the early stages of cosmic structure formation when the Universe was only a quarter of its current age, during an era when the galaxies were undergoing a major «growth spurt».

If there are indeed civilizations thousands or millions of years more advanced than ours, it is entirely possible that they could beam radio communications over immense distances, perhaps even over the distances of intergalactic space.

This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances....

The immense distances involved mean that many stars in our galaxy move very little across the sky when seen from Earth.

Any infant galaxy dating from the end of the Dark Ages is likely to be at an immense distance and therefore very faint.

The immense distances between stars can teem with dust, gas, and radiation, all leftovers from star and planet formation, supernovas, and other cosmic events.

To back their hypothesis, the researchers examined the feasibility of creating a radio transmitter strong enough for its emissions to be detectable across the immense distances FRBs have been seen coming from.