Sentences with phrase «larger masses nearby»

But traditional methods that rely on measuring how far small masses are pulled by the gravitational force of larger masses nearby only provide relatively rough estimates of its value.

Not exact matches

A large church constructed nearby displays photographs of victims, a small collection of personal items (such as shoes and glasses) recovered from the site's mass graves, and icons of those who have been canonized.

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.

«We have found a remarkably large dust mass concentrated in the central part of the ejecta from a relatively young and nearby supernova,» said Remy Indebetouw, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the University of Virginia, both in Charlottesville, USA.

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low - mass star and a black hole.

Many of the planets discovered by EDEN around nearby stars will be suitable for in - depth atmospheric characterization, mass, radius, and bulk density measurements through follow - up observations with large ground - and space - based telescopes, such as NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Phi Phi will never be home to quite as many large resorts as places like Phuket and Koh Samui, so although popular, it is less of a mass tourism destination than some of the nearby alternatives.

REPLY: I think the heat sink capability of large masses of nearby concrete and asphalt swamp any shadowing effects.