Sentences with phrase «of celestial events»

In Eclipse (2012), the scale transforms from the tabletop into the suggestion of celestial events involving the earth, sun, and moon.

They observed the sky for thousands of years and with such precision that their measurements of celestial events, such as the synodic period of Venus and the Maya calendar, were more precise than ours.

Chris Tucker is the cinematic equivalent of one of those celestial events that only happens once every few years — he hasn't appeared in a film since 2007's Rush Hour 3 and the Brett Ratner franchise marked the three lone acting jobs he's taken since 1998.

Supernovas are among the rarest of celestial events.

All of a sudden, there's an explosion of complex artifacts, symbolic representation, measurement of celestial events, complex social structures — a burst of creative activity that almost every expert on prehistory assumes must have been connected with the sudden emergence of language.

I am especially fond of Hurd's painting Enemy Action over American Bomber Station because it reminds me of medieval woodcut prints of weather and heavenly phenomena — in particular, Hans Glaser's depiction of a celestial event over my birth town, Nuremberg, on 14 April 1561.

Not exact matches

Starting 15 apr 14 and ending 13 sep 15 is a pattern of seven celestial events.

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after completing his English Literature thesis: «The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572 - 1620.»

A host of Earth - based and orbiting telescopes also observed the unique celestial event.

In this intense account of efforts to measure the rare celestial event, journalist Mark Anderson follows three scientific expeditions to Tahiti, Baja California, and the Arctic.

Whereas the «loudness» of each chirp has clearly conveyed each event's distance from us, LIGO's twin stations can at present only vaguely constrain their celestial sources, which may lie anywhere within huge swaths of the heavens containing thousands upon thousands of large galaxies.

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another.

«Technologically, probably the most important event in human history was to land on another celestial body,» says Beth O'Leary of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

The Seagull nebula thus lies at a celestial river fork or street intersection and must be influenced by stellar winds, supernovae and other events originating in both branches of the Orion spur.

Volcanic eruptions and impacts from celestial bodies, like asteroids, have a near instantaneous effect, but very few of these one - time events are of sufficient size to impact the global climate for more than a few years.

Sky - gazers are in for a rare treat tonight when three celestial events combine to create a Anno Mundi (Latin for in the year of the world; Hebrew: לבריאת העולם, to the creation of the world), abbreviated as AM or.

Most people watched the celestial event through special glasses, but one woman on the shore of Evergreen Lake wore a welder's mask.

Or in short, it is the science of various celestial events.

Some of the events I attended were the Deep Playa Art Tour, Sunrise Yoga, Giant Twister, Blues and Brews, TuTu Tuesday, David Bowie Happy Hour, the Wu - Tang and Sword Fighting Club, Celestial Communicator and a few classes on relationships, friends and love.

The weeklong event hosted at Vista Celestial, a boutique yoga & wellness resort located in Uvita, boasts a hand - picked group of the yoga industry's leading instructors and content creators.

Not confident that its blocky 3D in - game model for Okamiden's Chibiterasu would convey the character's cuteness, Capcom enlisted the help of this super adorable puppy to play the celestial wolf pup at promotional events and in the DS game's Japanese commercial.

In «Day's End,» Matta - Clark dangles on a DIY platform suspended from the roof while blowtorching a huge, crescent - shaped piece of wall; when it's finally freed and sunlight comes pouring in, the moment feels like a celestial event.

A female voice recites an excerpt from a written essay that collects together circumstantial histories and notes on celestial alignments that revolve around the annual event of the sun dissecting the building.

I learn that the photograph was taken by MPA in 29 Palms, California, where she relocated from New York City three years ago, to focus on the body of work that led to this show; it captures an» unexplained celestial event in the night sky above.»

This exhibition marks the second major exhibition of «Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future», a year - long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

These programs are presented as the final installment of «Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future», a year - long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes afrofuturism as its point of departure.

The title of this ensemble, The Equinox, makes reference to both the biannual celestial event in which the sun crosses the equator, causing day and night to be of equal length, and to esoteric traditions that study natural phenomena as a key to harnessing nature's power.