Sentences with phrase «larger near the horizon»
He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.
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«Astrophysicists can model the accreting material to some extent, but it is unclear how gas in the accretion flow migrates from an orbit at a large radius to one near the [event] horizon...» Avery E. Broderick and Abraham Loeb, p. 44.
This ultraviolet image of the sun shows large sunspot group AR 9169 as the bright area near the horizon.
«When the moon is near the horizon, it can look unnaturally large when viewed through trees, buildings, or other foreground objects,» says NASA.