Sentences with phrase «of giant mirrors»

They have ranged from seeding the oceans with iron filings to draw down atmospheric CO2, to the launching of billions of aluminised balloons to reflect the sun's rays away from the Earth, to the installation of giant mirrors in space that intercept those rays before they reach us.

Not exact matches

Workers at one of Russia's biggest aluminium smelters say their Siberian town is doomed unless Moscow mitigates U.S. sanctions against aluminium giant Rusal, a predicament mirrored across the company's sprawling operations.

SAYANOGORSK, Russia, April 23 - Workers at one of Russia's biggest aluminium smelters say their Siberian town is doomed unless Moscow mitigates U.S. sanctions against aluminium giant Rusal, a predicament mirrored across the company's sprawling operations.

Much of the telescope's chassis, including a series of giant gold - plated mirrors, have been fully assembled and tested.

The telecom and cable giants appear smaller in the rear - view mirror of Disney's $ 52 bln Fox deal.

King «took a giant mirror and lifted it above his shoulders and constantly showed it to America,» Schumer said from the pulpit of Trinity Baptist Church on East 224th Street.

But as you descend underground, past Titania's Veil (a gleaming white calcite formation), crossing Giant's Hall and skirting the mirror surface of Dream Lake, you will hear an ethereal music start to fill the dripping hush.

One, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), is being built by a consortium of U.S., Asian and South American institutions and will use seven 8.4 - meter bowl - shaped mirrors forming a light - gathering surface 24.5 meters wide.

The hypothetical supersymmetric particles, which physicists hope to discover at giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, would be «a reflection of all the Standard Model particles, using a mirror that is slightly distorted,» explains Joseph Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Three of the giant new telescopes, the two 10 - meter Kecks and the Hobby - Eberly, skirted some of the weight problems associated with casting a mirror from a single piece of glass.

A 12 - member working group of scientists, engineers, an economist, a social scientist, and a lawyer spent nearly a year examining technologies, such as fertilizing the oceans to suck down atmospheric carbon dioxide or orbiting giant mirrors to deflect sunlight.

Forget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in Earth's atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount of light entering earth's atmosphere.

TPF will build on SIM's design concept of combining the light from a line of several smaller mirrors so that the light waves add up or cancel out, providing the resolution of one giant mirror.

Its giant 10 - by 11 - meter, segmented mirror remains fixed; its control room's computer screens empty of celestial targets.

In a solicitation posted by NSF last week, the agency indicated that it does not expect to fund the building of any giant segmented mirror telescopes — that is, TMT or GMT — until the beginning of the 2020s.

A 2011 decadal survey of the field by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies ranked a giant segmented - mirror telescope as one of its top three priorities for ground - based optical and infrared astronomy.

Collaborators secure more than $ 500 million for the historic project to build the Giant Magellan Telescope, with seven of its mirrors produced at the UA.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

Webb's giant sunshield will protect it from stray heat and light, while its large mirror enables it to effectively capture infrared light, bringing us the clearest picture ever of space objects that emit this invisible radiation beyond the red end of the visible spectrum — early galaxies, infant stars, clouds of gas and dust, and much more.

The most important part of Webb's design is, of course, its giant mirror.

In an airplane hangar in Columbus, Ohio, some 80 tons of steel, electronics and cryogenic equipment are about to come together — and deposit one ounce of aluminum in a whisper - thin coating on a giant telescope mirror.

Challenge in hand, a few bold engineers dared to draw up the first sketches of a radical new approach to gathering light: tile together smaller hexagons, and control them so finely that they would act as a single, giant mirror.

On November 4, 2017, Giant Magellan Telescope celebrated the casting of the 5th primary mirror at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona.

The innovative enclosure design features a circular opening that minimizes the wind - induced vibrations of the telescope structure while optimizing air - flow around the building to reduce distortion of the light collected by the telescope's giant mirror.

The assembly is a demonstration model of just one of the 492 mirror segments that will ultimately comprise TMT's giant 30 - meter primary mirror.

Nothing hits your self confidence more than standing in front of a full length mirror and finding nothing flattering to wear in a giant store full of clothes.

That is, «the Shimmer» — which looks like a giant bubble engulfing Florida — holds a mirror to society more than it does capture a tale of the extraterrestrial.

(A scene in which the gentle giant pulverizes a group of hapless grunts mirrors Hulk smashing up Loki in Avengers, but gets an even bigger laugh.)

Both in the theatres and on the NTSC laserdisc, key sound effects contained extra oomph - the most notable being the close - up of Darkness» giant hoof planted on the floor, as he emerges from the giant mirror - which are rather wimpy on the DVD.

The positioning of the seats, side mirrors and window frame make for giant blind spots when turning or even changing lanes.

It has many hallmarks of a concept, such as the lack of side mirrors and door handles, not to mention giant wheels with rubber - band tires.

One was a granite giant that sat square to the village, its silvery face lined with deep gullies and rivulets of mercury like so many lines in a cracked mirror.

A collection of antiques and fine artwork are displayed throughout with unusual items like a giant, antler chandelier and a 10 - foot tall mirror from a French opera house.

Capture five floors full of optical experiences through the mirror maze, giant kaleidoscope, giant vortex tunnel, magic gallery, horrogram and lots more, here in a world that blends reality and illusion.

Inspired by the legend of Archimedes's defense against the Roman siege using giant mirrors, designer Nikolas Bentel created mirrored protest signs to help activists battling the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Sure to be popular is a visit to Dungeness Sound Mirrors (17 Sep) to help illuminate the ideas behind Marc Schmitz and Dolgor Ser - Od's commission, which acts as a giant amplifier and microphone on the East cliff of Folkestone.

Constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, the giant curved mirror surfaces will create illusory distortions of the surroundings and will be visible across large distances.

Speaking to his ability to conjure new and more incredible works, Altmejd helped inaugurate the newly designed Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver with a mirrored installation of six colossal giants only six months after turning the notoriously challenging space of the Canadian pavilion into a jewel - like aviary.

Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.

Altmejd's diverse and varied oeuvre includes his familiar platform - like structures punctuated by mirrored reliquaries of crystals, flowers, birds, and werewolf bodies and body parts, an inventive assortment of singular werewolf heads, clear Plexiglas boxes filled with an intricate tracery of gold chains, his spectacular aviary filling the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, uncanny part - bird part - human sculptures, a sculptural clock representing the temporal process of its making, and most recently colossal giants.

A solar eclipse mirror ball, giant cuddly toys and an experimental 16th - century costume drama filmed on the banks of the river Tamar will all feature in new commissions celebrating 70 years of one of the UK's most important public art collections.

His giant installations of smoked glass and mirrored glass were stunning additions to the art scene and included in the seminal Primary Structures show at the Jewish Museum.

Dan Graham's two - way mirrored - glass pavilion offers a seductively reflective maze, while Anish Kapoor fills an entire gallery with a giant hovering hat - cum - flying saucer called At the Edge of the World.

Meanwhile, Instagram has provided a new platform for a younger generation of fans to engage with Kusama's glittering, mirrored installations, giant polka - dotted pumpkins, and energetic abstract paintings.

The giant pixelated artworks create interesting patterns, with some of the pixels being replaced by tiny square mirrors too.

When visitors enter they will find themselves standing under a table, on a rug or in front of a mirror; they will also be opposite a door, next to a window or floating in a giant woven basket.

Towers with spiral staircases led to moments of mirrored contemplation and a giant spider invaded the former power station's rational modern space.

Neugerriemschneider's giant booth, featuring linen walls and sisal floors, is a brilliant assembly of forms that draw from nature — from Pae White's wiry birdcages and tree - root sculpture, to Rirkrit Tiravanija's mirrored boxes embellished with bonsai trees, to Sharon Lockhart's large - scale photographs of Polish girls captured in the woods at night.

His larger installation in the back gallery invites the viewer to step into giant half rings which employs vast mirrors to create the semblance of infinite looping hoops.

It is a huge metal cage that encloses mirrors and giant marbles, and reeks of loneliness, paranoia, hatred and suspicion.