Sentences with phrase «nearest celestial object»

From anyplace on Earth, the clearest thing in the night sky is usually the moon, Earth's only natural satellite and the nearest celestial object (240,250 miles or 384,400 km away).

Not exact matches

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy.

Near - Earth object (NEO) 8TA9D69 will strike the atmosphere over Sudan tonight at 0246 UTC, 5:46 a.m. local time, according to calculations by celestial dynamicist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Analysis of early galaxies in the Hubble deep fields taken near the north and south celestial poles (in 1995 and 1998, respectively) suggest that the farthest objects in the deep fields are only the «tip of the iceberg» of a uniquely effervescent period of star birth.

Discovered in 1912 by the American book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in the basement of a Jesuit library near Rome, the 230 page manuscript, completed in the 15th century, portrays a diverse array of astonishing fauna and flora, celestial objects, mysterious figures, as well as a huge quantity of script as of yet undeciphered.

So, if the curve - fitting points to periodicities that are anywhere near any of the frequencies that can be associated with a celestial object, then that's apparently sufficient.

So the extinction of the dinosaurs and the extinction of the megafauna both were caused by celestial objects crashing into or very near the USA?