Sentences with phrase «objects in the sky over»

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

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Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

Asteroids are discovered by small, dedicated teams of astronomers using optical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky looking for star - like objects, which change location in the sky slightly over the course of an hour or so.

Unfortunately, satellite orbits are difficult to measure: at large distances, the object's motion in the sky is so minute that it is simply unobservable over a human lifespan.

This planetary nebula is certainly the most impressive object of its kind in the sky, as the angular diameter of the luminous body is nearly 6 arc minutes, with a faint halo extensing out to over 15», half the apparent diameter of the Moon (Millikan 1974).

New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered the atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15).

For the latest installation at REC, a tiny exhibition space barely visible behind a glass door in the building housing Esther Schipper's gallery, Carol Bove has assembled The sky over Berlin March 2, 2006 at 19.00, a landscape of isolated objects adorning a bare, claustrophobic enclosure.