Sentences with phrase «in areas of the sky»

The flare looks identical to the flare from the first flash, which appeared in the area of sky to the top - left of the moon.
At first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - years.
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.
This group lies directly behind the Canes I group, and there are many groups of galaxies in this area of the sky which ultimately connect to the massive Virgo cluster fifty million light years away.
Another large collection of spiral galaxies in Canes Venatici, the dominant members are probably M106, NGC 4096 and NGC 4490, but there are many other galaxy groups in this area of the sky and this whole region is known as the Canes Cloud.
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Kepler finished collecting its first mission's data in May 2013, when two hardware failures limited the telescope's ability to aim at one area of the night sky and stare at sunlike stars.
Broadband providers are traditionally more competitive on pricing than any other area of the home services market, and despite Sky's recent promotional activity its share in this market dropped two percentage points to 25 %.
On another occasion, a good friend told me about regularly seeing unusual objects in the sky of the remote area where he lived.
One result of the process — which certainly Mark would not have encouraged, though his work started the development in that direction — is the sentimental, saccharine, sickly - sweet Jesuolatry that has mistaken strong emotion for an evidence of religion, has softened the ethical fiber and beclouded the whole theological sky of certain areas of Christianity.
Who knows, perhaps competing gods are all sitting up in the sky, watching the Earth and selectively intervening to punish human beings in the geographical areas of the planet where their believers enjoy a majority and ignoring all other parts of the world.
People are not the same there are many Ranks, Degrees, Levels of Human Waves from down scratch status to highest above the sky financial status and surely that has direct effect on mentality and humor among each level... beside that there are the peasants and tribals in remote areas and cities out skirts who work in the cities but there are people of the cities which are highly educated and good status.
Ensconced in the heart of the city, this enduring property is only four miles from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and within walking distance to the many area attractions, including Talking Stick Resort Arena, Chase Field and the Heard Museum.
Its ornate artwork of a beautiful night sky and a «tot area» with smaller toilets for little ones earned the Field Museum in Chicago the top spot in 2011.
United could do with a new signing in that area of the pitch with the news today that Michael Carrick is set to retire at the end of this season, according to Sky Sports.
«If they can turn up, start on the front foot, put pressure on that back four with the pace they've got as well on the wide areas - Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez will be in the wide areas - then they could cause a few problems for Chelsea's defence,» Parlour, who was speaking on behalf of England team sponsor Vauxhall, told Sky Sports News HQ.
Within a matter of days Sky News found 14 farmers in one area of Somerset alone, who were willing to admit they were illegally gassing badgers.
A leakage of gas from one of two gas fuel stations in the enclave around the Atomic Junction reportedly triggered fire, which extended to an adjoining Total Filling Station causing two explosions that sent fireballs into the skies.Hundreds of passengers, traders and residents in and around the Atomic Junction area fled their homes and workplaces for safety as the explosions lit the skies and caused severe heat waves.Electricity supply to most part of the area was cut off as some transformers were affected.
The Andromeda Galaxy is easily visible to the naked eye in a moderately dark sky, though such a sky is available only in smaller towns and isolated areas reasonably far from population centers and sources of light pollution.
The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.
Now, despite the depth of the Hubble observations, MUSE has — among many other results — revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky.
The trio of detectors allowed scientists to trace the source of the waves to a spot in the sky with an area of just 60 square degrees.
Nemaungani sold the SKA committee on South Africa's clear skies (necessary for precision radio astronomy), the promised political support of its president and cabinet — who have passed legislation to strictly limit the amount of radio noise in the remote site area — and its expertise in engineering and infrastructure.
In this full - sky image, created with data from the new Planck space telescope, red and orange areas represent primordial lumps that gave rise to giant clusters of galaxies.
«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy's Sergey Koposov, the Cambridge study's lead author.
For example, the laser pulse is expected to stand steep in its temporal evolution just as Tokyo Sky Tree stands high to flat, instead of the Tokyo Tower, which spreads the scaffolding to the hilly area.
Luckily enough, the two flagship X-ray observatories, the ESA - led XMM - Newton and the NASA - led Chandra took snapshots of the same area of the sky close in time to the peak of the flare, and again about ten years later.
A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.
The new instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea allows astronomers to map areas of the sky in wavelengths some 1,000 times longer than visible light.
IN 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote foresIN 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote foresin the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote forest.
In 2013, another study compared how the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory compared to the CIB in the same area of the skIn 2013, another study compared how the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory compared to the CIB in the same area of the skin the same area of the sky.
The map can't directly help with the dust controversy — the area of the sky mapped by BICEP2 is masked in the early map because the emission is very weak and researchers are still analyzing it.
Rather than looking at distant stars in a small area of sky, like Kepler did, TESS will look at closer stars over 85 per cent of the sky.
TESS will be able to search 350 times more area of the sky than Kepler can, and is expected to find about 20,000 exoplanets in its first two years alone.
In one of ASKAP's first images, it observed an area of the southern sky covering 10 square degrees (50 times the size of the full moon) by capturing nine overlapping zones simultaneously.
The pulsar was identified by analysing fluctuations in gamma - ray maps of the sky made using the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, which launched on 11 June.
Within minutes, they could determine the general area of the sky where the explosion would occur, point their infrared telescopes in that direction, and wait for the fireworks.
Here the invisible dark matter is seen rendered in pink, covering an area of sky around 420 times the size of the full moon.
This study takes in the largest total area of the sky to ever be mapped with this technique so far.
The astronomers used the VLA and ALMA to study galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a small area of sky observed since 2003 with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Surarea surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area SurArea Survey.
The supermassive black hole found in NGC 1600 is one of the first successes of the project, proving the value of a systematic search of the night sky rather than looking only in dense areas like those occupied by large clusters of galaxies, such as the Coma and Virgo clusters.
But with 24 - hour lighting, particularly in urban areas, comes severe light pollution that blocks our view of the night sky — a view that for millennia human beings before us took for granted.
To maximize the chances of finding a type Ia supernova in the very early stages, the team used Hyper Suprime - Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope, a combination which can capture an ultra-wide area of the sky at once.
Researchers have been able to narrow down the location of this new gravitational wave, called GW170814, to an area of 60 square degrees in the sky.
Right, the same area of sky, but with the invisible dark matter rendered in pink.
A mysterious cold spot lurked in the southern sky; fluctuations between large areas of the sky were even smaller than expected; and fluctuations at some scales seemed to align along a preferred direction, forming what has been dubbed an «axis of evil».
This impressively detailed image of Orion A establishes a new observational foundation for further studies of star and cluster formation and once again highlights the power of the VISTA telescope to image wide areas of sky quickly and deeply in the near - infrared part of the spectrum [5].
v Reported variations in the CMB spanned areas of the sky that were 100 or 1,000 times too broad to produce galaxies.
In 2009, NASA launched its Kepler probe to keep a close watch on a small section of the sky — the idea was to learn more about a smaller area than less about a larger one.
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