Sentences with phrase «like ordinary stars»

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On the other side, how the hell does an intelligent man pay 50 million for Sterling, not only is he ordinary without the likes of Saurez, Surridge, and Gerrard he looks like he came from Star Wars (like so many others).

The «next chapter» of former Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella's life is unfolding at a financial firm in Midtown Manhattan that offers hedge fund - style investments to ordinary Joes, run by a high - flying, globe - trotting college dropout and former Austrian cop who hobnobs with celebs like former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and «Desperate Housewives» star Teri Hatcher.

But even ordinary G - class stars like our own have been known to double in brightness for a period of a few minutes to a few days.

GHOST IN THE SHELL What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist's illustration, might be the result of a single star exploding at least three times, blowing off expanding shells of gas each time.

Studying first generation supernovae provides a glimpse into what the Universe looked like when the first stars, galaxies, and supermassive black holes formed, but to date it has been difficult to distinguish a first generation supernova from an ordinary supernova.

They used a series of filters, like polarised, glare - blocking sunglasses but bigger and more precise, to observe the light from a nearby, relatively dim neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — and compared it with light from ordinary nearby stars.

It looks like the big boom was caused when two ordinary stars crashed into each other some 49 million years ago, Lets hope it was a no - fault galaxy.

The man who limned the laws that guide the paths of stars, planets, and falling apples had this to say about the universe: «I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»

The ordinary hydrogen - burning dwarf stars like the Sun are found in a band running from top - left to bottom - right called the Main Sequence.

Any object that either shines or reflects light, like a star or planet, is made of ordinary matter.

The spiral - shaped Milky Way, for example, spins too fast to contain only ordinary matter like stars, planets and dust.

Before 1840, Eta Carinae looked like an ordinary naked eye star.

Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker star as «ordinary» parents who go to extraordinary lengths to protect their mutant children from organizations like Sentinel Services, which, if you've read any X-Men comics or seen one of co-EP Bryan Singer's films, you'll recognize as a real threat.

I wish Stoller had been more willing to simply throw us full bore into the train wreck that is Aldous's life — you know, like This Is Spinal Tap did with its horrifying rock star idiots we couldn't look away from — but I'm struck with a terrible certainty that Greek believes that it needs to spell out, in no uncertain terms, a cautionary tale about how the «glamorous life» ain't so glamorous and «ordinary life» as lived by us mere mortals is far better.

On the surface, the story of an ordinary woman falling in love with a Hollywood star sounds like a fairy tale, but Monsters is actually a very realistic look at a relationship between two adults.

McLean probes further and deeper, looking for evidence that this extraordinary presence is ordinary after all, that the stars are just like us.