Sentences with phrase «observe near the sun»

Trying to observe near the sun is difficult, but a planet is not exactly an easy thing to hide.

Not exact matches

In fact, from each ocean view room balcony hotel guests can observe the near constant clutch of surfers hanging ten — a quintessentially Californian vista, especially as they are silhouetted at dusk against the orange, red and otherwise polychromatic backdrop of the setting sun.

This was first confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919 by a team led by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington; the scientists observed that stars near the limb of the Sun were shifted in position by the Sun's gravity.

On our star, the Sun, the sunspots are seen in a belt around the equator, but now scientists have observed a large, distant star where sunspots are located near the poles.

We now have to observe how the coma evolves as it nears the sun, to determine whether the changes in the coma are a result of temperature differences alone or whether the nucleus itself is inhomogeneous.»

The image above (view the full - res version), which is called the absorption spectrum of the Sun, was observed by the Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak, near Tucson, Arizona.

That effect was first demonstrated during a total solar eclipse in 1919, when the positions of stars near the Sun were observed to be slightly shifted from their usual positions — an effect due to the pull of the Sun's gravity as the stars» light passed close to the Sun.

Besides these remote organizations, investigators have observed what appear to be groups of high - velocity stars near the Sun.

The best - observed dust clouds near the Sun have masses of several hundred solar masses and sizes ranging from a maximum of about 200 light - years to a fraction of a light - year.

This was first tested in 1919 by Sir Arthur Eddington, who organized an expedition to observe star positions during an eclipse of the Sun from islands near the coast of Africa.

«We're accustomed to seeing how our Sun appears in visible light, but that can only tell us so much about the dynamic surface and energetic atmosphere of our nearest star,» said Tim Bastian, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. «To fully understand the Sun, we need to study it across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including the millimeter and submillimeter portion that ALMA can observe.»

On the other hand, observing that things warm up during the day, and cool down at night, might cause one to come to the conclusion that objects exposed to the Sun tend to warm, and that objects exposed to the near vacuum of outer space tend to lose energy, and cool.

Mancke designed the Sun Hive after having observed a wild bee nest in the woods near his home, which took an egg - shaped form and was covered in waxy skin and propolis.