Sentences with phrase «it along our line of sight»

The only problem was that the team found no such cluster anywhere along the line of sight.

Left: Absorption by neutral hydrogen gas along the line of sight.

If we live in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, he reasoned, then we should see a star along all lines of sight.

The giveaway is a slight but regular slowing and speeding of the star along the line of sight as it's tugged by the planet's gravity.

To draw that conclusion, the researchers had to rule out other effects, such as polarization that could arise from dust particles along the line of sight.

If instead the distance is about 1,500 light - years (the current best estimate), the long - term dimming could perhaps be because of chance patterns of intervening dust along the line of sight.

The spectra revealed each star's velocity along our line of sight, because a star moving towards us shows a blue shift in its spectrum, whereas a star moving away from us shows a red shift.

«They've assumed all the gas in the filaments is right along the line of sight between the two galaxies; and that's probably not right.»

Combining this tiny displacement with the hole's previously determined velocity along the line of sight as it zooms toward Earth yielded its velocity in three dimensions.

To see a glory, you have stand with your back to the Sun, so that the reflected rays return along your line of sight.

Thus, measuring how much gamma rays of different energies are attenuated or weakened from blazars at different distances from Earth indirectly gives a measurement of how many EBL photons of different wavelengths exist along the line of sight from blazar to Earth over those different distances.

A carbon monoxide spectrum obtained with HARP in the direction of the Galactic Centre showing the presence of three cold clouds with small line widths and one warmer cloud with larger line width, which move at different velocities along the line of sight.

Rusu's contribution was to measure the distribution of mass along the line of sight from quasar to telescope.

Our results show not only the magnetic field orientation of around young stellar objects but also the structure of circumstellar matter such as outflow regions and their parent molecular cloud along the line of sight.

For the transit method to work, a planet must pass almost perfectly along our line of sight, the chances of which are around 0.5 percent for an Earth - sized planet (in an Earth - sized orbit) and 10 percent for a Jupiter - sized planet (if it orbits near its star)[source: Ames Research Center, FAQ].

According to the radial velocity vs. time [10] the radial separation of A and B along the line of sight had reached a maximum in 2007 with B being behind A.

Based on the extreme, deduced photometric redshift of GRB 000131 indicating that the gamma rays had travelled an extreme long cosmological distance, astronomers predicted a «break» in the red region of the spectrum around 670 to 700 nm from the strong absorption of light from intervening intergalactic hydrogen clouds along the line of sight between GRB 000131 and the Solar System.

Messier object number 24 is not a «true» deep sky object, but a huge star cloud in Milky Way, a pseudo-cluster of stars spread thousands of light years along the line of sight, perceived through a chance tunnel in the interstellar dust.

In 1896 Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius used Langley's bolometer to measure the heat from the Moon at various altitudes above the horizon in order to estimate the dependence of atmospheric heat trapping on amount of water vapor and CO2 along the line of sight to the Moon, a much longer path near the horizon than at 45 degrees.

Not exact matches

Simultaneous neutron and x-ray imaging of inertial confinement fusion experiments along a single line of sight at Omega

Sometimes you catch sight of a turn leading off into the distance, a dirt track or a county road at right angles to the highway you're on, as you drive along those straight, miles - long lines you find only in the West.

Historic Theater Reopens It was a sight unseen along the Grand Concourse for more than two years: a buoyant throng of people waiting in line outside the iconic Loew's Paradise Theater.

«Cars parked along Seneca Street were causing an obstruction and impairing the line of sight for drivers attempting to exit the senior center, creating an extremely dangerous situation,» said Legislator Lorigo.

Follow - up images and analyses, posted June 30 at arXiv.org, showed that light is probably from a single bright blue star that coincidentally was behind the galaxy cluster, aligned along Hubble's line of sight.

Astronomer Dennis Zaritsky of the University of Arizona in Tucson notes that the ring could result from a chance alignment of dark matter lumps along Hubble's line of sight.

«We next plan to extend our analysis to do additional observations along different sight - lines, which will allow us to make a three - dimensional probe of the rich complexity of the populations in the bulge,» Clarkson added.

«I don't know what happened between 1987 and today, but somewhere along the line, it would seem that somebody lost sight of the fact that the original color breakthrough in question here had been achieved through genetic modification,» says Craig Regelbrugge, senior vice president in the Washington, D.C., office of the trade group AmericanHort.

For instance, dark matter outside the colliding galaxies but along Earth's line of sight might be contributing to the gravitational lensing.

The reason for bringing Hubble into the picture is that the two Voyagers are only able to study the immediate vicinity along their line of travel, so Hubble is expanding things by using its Imaging Spectrograph to study the spectra of starlight shining along the sight lines of the spacecrafts» routes for several light years.

From these spectra, researchers can identify the molecules present at every point and determine their velocities (speed plus direction) along the line - of - sight; this information provides the third dimension — the depth of the coma.

The calculations take into account radiometer noise, intrinsic variability of the pulses that causes «jitter noise», pulse broadening from scattering along the entire line of sight, and the finite number of scintles in the timing data.

Observation: During a solar eclipse you see that the stars along the same line of sight as the Sun are shifted «outward».

We detect C3 in absorption arising from the warm envelope surrounding the... ▽ More We present spectrally resolved observations of triatomic carbon (C3) in several ro - vibrational transitions between the vibrational ground state and the low - energy nu2 bending mode at frequencies between 1654 - 1897 GHz along the sight - lines to the submillimeter continuum sources W31C and W49N, using Herschel's HIFI instrument.

Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud in the early 1980's revealed that it consists of two galaxies lying along the same line of sight.

Researchers used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies» shapes to reconstruct the distribution of intervening mass along Hubble's line of sight - a method called weak gravitational lensing.

Along with the ability to display several different views at the same time, this technology can also zoom and pan, ensuring objects and angles, normally below the line of sight, can be seen.

The analogue instrument cluster of the older model has made way for a 12.3 - inch screen along with a nifty heads - up display (HUD) that can project various information onto the windshield and directly into the driver's line of sight.

But I found myself crying not just when we get Dean's affecting and deeply personal description of the VAB, but when we meet strangers lined up along the side of the road waiting for hours to catch sight of a launch, when we meet the men and women — one man in particular, Omar Izquerido, an orbiter integrity clerk at the VAB — who have devoted their lives to the space shuttle program, and who continue to devote themselves enthusiastically to their work even as they watch its end creeping toward them.

Only three lines still run today, but for the reasonable price of $ 2.50 you can take a rickety ride back in time whilst marvelling at some wonderful city sights along the way.

Designed along the lines of the trading schooners that worked the Grand Banks of the North Atlantic for over 200 years, Windjammer epitomises the grandest of schooner qualities and with her 2000 feet of sail area and raked masts, is a spectacular sight.

There are times when you can be crouched, along with Amy, next to a barrier and can clearly see that the zombies line - of - sight includes you, but they won't react to it.

Guards have a visible line of sight, can only see directly ahead of them, and hiding spots have an unnatural shimmer to them which, along with the vibrant red along every obstacle and path you're able to climb, makes the whole game feel just a tad patronizing.

And although it's meant to be hidden along with your other audio visual cables - and works perfectly without direct line of sight thanks to operating on Wi - Fi instead of the sometimes pesky Bluetooth protocol - the Chromecast Audio is definitely not an eyesore.