Sentences with phrase «moon as it circles»

Assuming Proxima b is tidally locked, Webb could then detect changes in the planet's thermal glow as its cold, nightside and warm, sunlit dayside shift in and out of view across one complete orbit, rather like watching phases of the moon as it circles Earth.

Jupiter's gravity creates tides — a periodic stretching — on the moons as they circle.

The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere.

Fossil Necklace (2013), a necklace comprised of 170 carved, rounded fossils, spanning geological time; Second Moon (2013), a work that tracks the cyclical journey of a fragment of the moon as it circles the Earth, via airfreight courier, on a man - made year - long commercial orbit; All the Dead Stars (2009), a large map documenting the locations of 27,000 dead stars known to humanity; Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight (2009), an incandescent bulb designed to transmit wavelength properties identical to those of moonlight; and History of Darkness (ongoing), a slide archive of darkness captured at different times and places throughout the universe and spanning billions of years.

Not exact matches

How was Isaiah able to know that the earth is like a «circle» long in advance of actual observation, such as when the Apollo astronauts confirmed that the earth was indeed round in July 1969 from their vantage point on the moon?

Isaiah 40:22 describes the earth as a circle or sphere when most people thought it was flat The sun and moon are clearly spherical.

Jupiter and Saturn are so big as to be circled by their own families of moons, some of which rival the other planets in size.

Two weeks ago, scientists reported that the martian moon Phobos will be torn apart as it circles inward toward the Red Planet.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

Naiad, the once lost moon of Neptune, emerged as a point of light (circled) just to the left of the planet in archived images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

While observing at the frequency that hydrogen atoms emit radiation, it will be able to image a circle on the sky as wide as about five Full Moons.

Earth and the other seven planets that circle the star we call the sun and smaller objects such as moons make up our solar system.

This area is also what is visible in a light colored nail as the darker circle or half - moon shape when we trim back the nail and get closer to the quick.

or transforms into a moon that circles your planet like a satellite or like a moon, or maybe can be fitted with engines and used as a death from above super laser satellite to annihilate planets that the player feel indifferent about.

In these works is a world rich in symbolism: metals are personified (Iron as Mars, God of War and Silver as Hecate, Goddess of the Moon); circles can signify shields, mandalas, clocks, compasses, sundials, and the earth; letters and points in abstract constellations are determined by the Golden Section and Jarry's own notions of mathematical formulas; and the body becomes a world of proportions, formulas, and erotic riddles.

Yet while all of the cities charted in these fragments are identifiable, the collaged pieces act as an abstracted gridded backdrop for the painted white circle at the work's center, a simple yet enigmatic form that suggests a face, a cloud, or a moon over a landscape.

The abstract works in the 1920s and 30s, including the red - dot symphonies and black - grid compositions, are classic examples of music - visual hybrids evoking constellations, planets, and moons, as in «Several Circles» (1926).