Sentences with phrase «object in the sky»

The little finder scope that you can see on the side of it makes it a breeze to quickly point at objects in the sky that interest you.

On another occasion, a good friend told me about regularly seeing unusual objects in the sky of the remote area where he lived.

During the past decade, however, astronomers have found real hazards associated with actual objects in the sky.

It is a process that develops slowly across time when one object in the sky moves into the shadow of another such object.

Years later, while investigating a mysterious object in the sky, you discover that your imaginary friend was real all along!

Of course, military pilots aren't the only ones with extensive experience looking at objects in the sky — and the equipment to record what they see.

Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky on a scale of apparent magnitude — the brighter the object, the greater the negative number; the dimmer, the greater the positive number.

Puzzled pilots of different airlines think they saw an unusual object in the skies on Feb. 24.

Our Director of Astronomy uses a computer to select an agenda, locate and identify 1,000 objects in the sky including stars, planet, galaxies and nebulae.

It will remain, after Venus, the second - brightest object in the sky through early summer.

All seven mirrors combined gather less than one - hundredth as much light as one 30 - foot - wide mirror, meaning they won't pull in the faintest objects in the sky.

I remember reading an article about backyard digital astrophotography in a science magazine 20 - plus years ago; now I have a device in my pocket that can pull it off, albeit only with the most brilliant objects in the sky.

Features in the pictures that rotate are artefacts of the imaging process, and features that stay in the same place are real objects in the sky.

Every week, the program presents the people behind the latest discoveries in the physical and natural sciences — from the smallest sub-atomic particle to the largest objects in the sky and everything in between.

The excellent, built - in SkyAlign computer control makes it easy to find and track objects in the sky.

Automated systems will also be needed to spot fast - changing objects in the sky and alert other telescopes to home in on them quickly for more detailed study, similar to the existing system for studying gamma ray bursts.

If we can overcome being intimidated by nonannularity, we too can learn to appreciate the timeless movement of the many objects in the sky.

«This study gives us a sense of how things around us are connected to distant objects in the sky.»

«You can imagine that the appearance of a new object in the sky could even have triggered a new religion.»

«This will be the first survey in the history of astronomy that will catalog more objects in the sky than there are people on Earth,» Ivezic says.

The term is a misnomer: Observing a number of vaguely round, cloudlike objects in the sky during the late 18th century, Sir William Herschel thought they resembled faint planets.

This led us to look at data from the Catalina Sky Survey, which monitors the brightness of objects in the sky over time.

It is also a big object in the sky, extending to over 1 degree in diameter, thus covering more than four times the area of the Full Moon.

Hand - picked collection An unidentified flying object or UFO, is defined as a perceived object in the sky, not identifiable by standard criteria.

Speculation has suggested that Tilted Towers is set to be blown up, but now rumors abound that it's Dusty Depot that will meet its demise at the hands of a giant object in the sky.

People claim to have seen weird flying objects in the sky, but so far we do not have any substantial proof about it, so we consider it as a normal folklore and something to laugh about.

Astronomers are constantly searching for better ways to figure out how far away objects in the sky are.

Instead of trying to correlate the directions of the incoming cosmic rays with objects in the sky, they have simply looked for an imbalance in the rays coming from opposite directions.

Edward J. Mahoney, Director of Astronomy and NASA Solar System Ambassador, uses a computer to select an agenda, locate and identify 1,000 objects in the sky including stars, planets, galaxies and nebulae.

«What is special about the microshutter device is it can select many objects in one viewing for simultaneous observation and it is programmable for any field of objects in the sky,» said Paul Geithner, deputy project manager — technical for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Jupiter is usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus); however at times Mars appears brighter than Jupiter.

It is one of the faintest objects in the sky, discovered using a 25» Schmidt camera in 1952 by G.A Shajn and V.E. Hase at the Crimean Astrophyical Observatory at Simeis (in the former U.S.S.R).

The included red - dot viewfinder allows you to point the telescope quickly at any object in the sky.

This way you can slowly turn it and objects in the sky will appear to stand still in your field of view.

Warped gravitational lenses predicted by Einstein are some of the most beautiful — and useful — objects in the sky.

We tend to think that objects in the sky have always been the way we view them, but in this case the face that is so familiar to us — the Man on the Moon — changed,» said Siegler, who also is a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz..

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an amazing project: map out the positions and colors of objects in the sky to high precision.

In principle, measuring astronomical parallax is easy: measure the position of an object in the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (eg.

ALMA is formed by 66 antennas that can observe any object in the sky simultaneously to obtain data of unprecedented quality.

The Hubble results have revolutionized the state of knowledge in virtually any branch of astronomy — not that every good result comes from the HST, but as these data are available publicly, they are used if ever possible; from planets, comets, and asteroids to stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, every sort of objects in the sky were investigated, often obtaining most revolutionary results.

In the physical world, some people consider the moon as just an object in the sky.

With the inquiries documented, Meghan could then let the students drive their scientific investigations for a unit on objects in the sky.

Through hands - on activities, students will understand how these objects in the sky affect life on earth.

Director of Astronomy Eddie Mahoney leads the Romance Tour of the Stars and identifies 1,000 objects in the sky including stars, planet, galaxies and nebulae.

But seriously, play Save The World, because you're miossing a lot of details about the object in the sky and how it's sending communications.

Now the objects in the sky no longer reminded people of building blocks, but of a giant's dismembered limbs and disemboweled viscera.

By recording the position of the objects in the sky, we learned than when the patterns in the sky repeat, the patterns on earth also repeat.

«There is midnight sun in the area and objects in the sky must therefore shine very strongly to be visible at all.