Sentences with phrase «more ancient object»

New Horizons also could potentially take a close - up look at a smaller, more ancient object much farther out in the Kuiper Belt: the disk - shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune believed to contain comets, asteroids and other small, icy bodies.

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It houses over 3,000 objects — including ancient bicycles, more cars than you can shake a gearstick at and one of the largest locomotives on display in Britain.

This year we learned even more about the ancient object and, in turn, the solar system.

External forces beating up the ancient moon may explain how it once maintained a magnetic field for more than 400 million years — longer than scientists had thought such a small object could be magnetized.

Jerry Nelson, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, US, Ray Wilson, formerly of Imperial College London and the European Southern Observatory, and Roger Angel, of the University of Arizona, Tucson, US, share the astrophysics prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design that have allowed us glimpses of ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the universe.

J. Roger Angel is one of the three 2010 Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics who share the prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design — allowing us to glimpse ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the Universe.

The library - museum was made public in 1924 and today holds a much more expansive collection which includes Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, literary and historical manuscripts, printed music, ancient seals and tablets, paintings, art objects, drawings, bindings and prints.

main gimmick is the hero's transformation abilities: As an ancient relic brought to life (yes, really), Knack grows larger whenever he comes into contact with more artefacts while progressing through levels, which allows him to take on more dangerous enemies and use the environment and its objects in new ways.

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Themes include Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations, Identity, Objects as Primary Sources, Materials in Art and more.

Over a millennium later, in 1998, divers searching for sea cucumbers uncovered the wreckage, a dazzling trove of more than 60,000 objects which has remade scholarship on topics ranging from ancient trade policy to the history of porcelain.

Three years after the Belgian artist's first U.S. retrospective stopped in Dallas, he mounts a Raid the Icebox - style that presents a (mostly) career - spanning selection of his portraits with portraits, masks, funerary objects and more from the Menil Collection's ancient, African, Native American and modern - and - contemporary collections.

Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts.

A selection of ancient artifacts from the National Museum of Beirut, melted together by shell fire endured during the Lebanese Civil War, speaks to the preservation of objects whose profound transformations make them even more powerful representatives of the past.

Its permanent collection of more than 84,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from every part of the world, including objects from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art.

In his latest exhibition What It Is, New York City - based artist and designer Doug Johnston crafts unusual, sculptural objects made entirely from coiled and stitched rope — an ancient technique that he loves to celebrate in a more contemporary way.

The exhibition features more than eighty objects from the Brooklyn Museum and the DMA's permanent collection and explores themes of mythology, kingship, and everyday life in ancient Egypt through representations of felines.