Sentences with phrase «nighttime sky»

Mirroring a methodology Manning and his colleagues have used to understand other elements of the visitor experience, the researchers showed park visitors a series of photographs of nighttime skies at Acadia with successively more light pollution.

Four billion years from now, after its first close pass through the Milky Way, a view of Earth's nighttime sky shows that M31 is tidally stretched out and the Milky Way is also warped (Image: NASA / STScI)

Not only do the types of stars differ in many ways from what we can see in our serene nighttime sky from Earth, but the stars at the galactic center are also not behaving like the stars around us.

In addition to gauging the value to park visitors of a dark nighttime sky, the study also provides data to park managers at Acadia — and by extension, other parks — enabling them to develop visitor - driven plans for setting light pollution targets.

Soon they discover people on the street singing, eating ice cream, and having a great time under the starry nighttime sky.

If you live in Neuchâtel, Switzerland you'd have to travel 845 miles to northwestern Scotland, Algeria, or Ukraine to find pristine nighttime skies.

According to a study published Sept. 4 in Park Science, visitors also value and seek to protect a different kind of threatened natural resource in the parks: dark nighttime skies.

I missed with the tennis racket but secured it with a waste basket and delivered it out the door into the nighttime sky

Faith stares, mesmerized, at the nighttime sky.

If you live at temperate latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, simply look northward and chances are that you'll see the Big Dipper in your nighttime sky.

Andromeda evokes the sophistication and majesty of a nighttime sky.

Take a tour of the nighttime sky, with visits to Saturn, Jupiter, and even the mountain ranges on the moon!

This camera is really sensitive to light which helps it to capture the nighttime sky.

From ancient times, skywatchers had wondered at the eerie dim glowing band of light visible across the nighttime sky (until modern light pollution drowned it out).

Just a hundred years ago, a great debate raged about the fuzzy patches on the nighttime sky known as «cloudy stars,» or nebulae.

A new study shows National Park visitors highly value the nighttime sky and want park managers to minimize light pollution.

But because the Milky Way contains a lot of dust, which effectively blocks visible light, the chances of anyone seeing that explosion in the nighttime sky are 20 % or less, the researchers note.

On rare occasions, the nighttime sky at Earth's temperate latitudes becomes bright enough, even on moonless nights, for people to read a book.

Having survived countless technical challenges over its seven - year journey, the Japanese probe returned to Earth on June 13, disintegrating as planned in a blazing fireball over Australia's nighttime skies.

As dawn creeps across Western Europe on the morning of Thursday, 10 September, a close conjunction of the two brightest objects in the nighttime sky is taking place low in the east an hour before sunrise.

After seven billion years, the merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy, its bright core dominating the nighttime sky (Image: NASA / STScI)

It has many supersensitive instruments that are busy collecting incredibly high - resolution images and spectrum analyses of objects all over the nighttime sky.

Mosaic image of Earth's nighttime sky as the collision of M31 and the Milky Way unfolds: 1.

3.75 billion years from now - the nighttime sky showing the Andromeda galaxy (M31) early in its collision with our Milky Way galaxy (Image: NASA / STScI)

(Final row right): 7 Billion Years - The merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy, its bright core dominating the nighttime sky.

Salmon fishermen trolling along the waters off Puget Sound in Washington are often witness to an awesome sight when they haul in their catch: salmon captured in nets that glow brilliantly against the nighttime sky.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Salmon fishermen trolling along the waters off Puget Sound in Washington are often witness to an awesome sight when they haul in their catch: salmon captured in nets that glow brilliantly against the nighttime sky.

Fourth Row, Right: In 7 billion years the merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy, its bright core dominating the nighttime sky.

My love of the nighttime sky, and my love for nail polish.

Even huddling together to warm one another and then observing the nighttime sky, the notion of love between such distant personalities escapes Stanley until it may be too late.

A Pagliacci of a clown named Chuckles (voice of Bud Luckey) is one of two characters who stare longingly into the nighttime sky and holds the knowledge of Lotso's past.

We could crank up the volume on the 380 - watt Meridian audio system or get an eyeful of the nighttime sky through the sliding panoramic glass roof.

Thanks to the optional moonroof with sunshade, we could enjoy a generous view of the nighttime sky.

Next, consider this, you can order the Rolls - Royce Phantom Coupe with a headliner embedded with tiny points of light resembling the nighttime sky on the night you were born.

The private lanai is ideal for watching West Maui's magical sunrises, sunsets and starry, nighttime skies.

Come nightfall, the park has a well - respected view of the nighttime sky.

The nighttime sky is fun to behold.

There is also a fire pit brazier on the beach for those «cooler» evenings where you might sit around the fire with a favorite cocktail while watching «shooting stars» in the nighttime sky!

You can still control yourself as you float up into winter's nighttime sky, but you can't outrun it.

Michael Oatman, an obsessive collagist, is here presenting his piece «Small Blanket» which appears at first to be a nighttime sky filled with snowflakes until upon closer inspection the flakes are revealed to be made up of dozens of war planes fashioned into mandala like patterns.

Her current exhibition, Kyle Staver: Recent Paintings at Tibor de Nagy (October 17 — November 23, 2013), which is comprised of four paintings, all nearly six feet high and a little more than four feet wide, In «Daphne» (2013) and «Syrinx» (2013), the darkest paintings, the figures are pressed closer to the picture plane than in «Andromeda» (2013) and «Groupers» (2013), which take place in a nighttime sky and ocean.

She uses imagery such as Cochina dolls, nighttime skies, her passed Grandmother, eyes, the Tower of Babel, and as coined by Stephanie Young in Beautiful Decay «portraits of alien weirdos» to investigate and make sense out the world we inhabit.

From the snowy north and wild west to the inky sea and nighttime sky, our fabulous reader photos show Mother Nature at her marvelous best.

And the question can be asked of those who live in cities; maybe you can't see much in the nighttime sky, but did you know the problem was so prevalent across the planet?

A study was recently published which found that visitors to Maine's Acadia National Park value the nighttime sky.

It's a type of pollution notable not for the visible signs of what is left behind, but for what is taken away — in this case, the natural lights of the nighttime sky.

Fortunately the nighttime sky is a resource that is easily recovered, we just have to turn off the lights.