Sentences with phrase «of hundreds of objects»

In the past few years, space probes, improved ground - based telescopes, and orbiting observatories have shown us close - up pictures of hundreds of objects in our solar system.

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Programmers have, rather, fed the computer a learning algorithm, exposed it to terabytes of data — hundreds of thousands of images or years» worth of speech samples — to train it, and have then allowed the computer to figure out for itself how to recognize the desired objects, words, or sentences.

The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

The robot's vision can now «read» stop signs (rather than rely on a map to plot them out) and differentiate between hundreds of objects in real time.

A great deal of the pleasure of reading Obsolete Objects derives from simply coming across such passages - hundreds of them.

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

There are only a few fraternities on or off campus, and fewer than a hundred students live in them, but they have been the object of allegations of sexual assault, and students and faculty have demanded that something be done.

Loyalty to the nation - state has been a principal object of the communications and educational systems of the family and of the national community for a few hundred years — a relatively short period in man's history.

For thousands of years it insisted that the sun orbits the earth, and less than a hundred years ago it decreed that objects heavier than air could never fly.

A human object of love may serve for a while, but unfortunately the mortality rate is one hundred per cent.

Before the methane storage project was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in October 2014, hundreds of citizens tried every possible legal means to prevent the expansion of fracked gas storage at Seneca Lake, a source of drinking water for 100,000 people and to object to a form of industrialization that places us in harm's way.

Classification is not a big deal when you are working with hundreds of extrasolar planets or thousands of supernovas, but it becomes hugely complicated when you are trying to make sense of billions of objects.

Levan concludes: «Now, astronomers won't just look at the light from an object, as we've done for hundreds of years, but also listen to it.

In fact it's a tight collection of several hundred thousand stars, most of which are packed into a ball just a few light - years across (though the whole object is over 100 light - years in diameter).

It is home to countless objects — estimates range from hundreds of thousands to more than a billion — that collectively outweigh the asteroid belt many times over.

«These are really grinding, catastrophic events,» he says, noting that the doomed objects must be hundreds of kilometers across to produce as much dust as Spitzer sees.

For now, such technology can cloak only objects with a surface area of a few square micrometres and a few hundred nanometres deep.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but the hundreds of amulets in his collection — many of them phallic objects from Egypt, Rome, and Japan — reflect Freud's interest in magic and religion.

«We now know there is an extraordinary diversity of strange, transient objects,» he says, referring to the hundreds of fleeting celestial flare - ups that appear beyond the solar system each year.

«The first near - Earth object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been object was discovered in 1898,» said Don Yeomans, long - time manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Over the next hundred years, only about 500 had been found.

In the course of the mission, Wright predicts, «we'll see hundreds of millions of sources, and we'll find millions of brand - new objects that nobody knew existed.»

According to the IAU, dozens more plutoids may yet be identified, but hundreds of smaller bodies seem likely to remain burdened with the designation «transneptunian object.»

Since that discovery hundreds of large objects, most more than 100 kilometers in diameter, have been spotted in the Kuiper Belt, including some of the roughly Pluto - size bodies that spurred a redefinition of the word «planet» and relegated Pluto to dwarf status.

The team also used a technique called photogrammetry, where hundreds of photographs taken from all angles of an object are sewn together into a 3D representation.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched in August, can see an object the size of Pluto located a few hundred astronomical units away [one astronomical unit is 96 million miles — the distance from the Earth to the s Sun], and Spitzer can detect a planet the size of Earth out to about 1,000 astronomical units.

The objects are made up of hundreds of millions of stars densely packed together on an average of 100 light years across.

Manually analysing time - resolved microscopy images with hundreds or thousands of moving objects is not feasible.

At such speeds, a collision with even an apple - size object could shatter a spacecraft into hundreds of pieces.

Even larger objects, known as moonlets, were suspected to be disrupting the ring in such a way as to cause periodic jets of dust to shoot hundreds of kilometers into space.

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, bound together by gravity.

Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

But experts broadly agree that it can be done — so a handful of telescopic surveys around the world now monitor hundreds of millions of suns night after night to seek these objects, gradually taking a bulk census of the Milky Way's loneliest worlds from the telltale twinkles of chance cosmic alignments.

These nearby objects include the Local Supercluster, a vast assemblage of galaxies to which our Galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs and the coma cluster, a galaxy cluster that lies a few hundred million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

For objects bigger than 1 centimetre, the estimates are frightening: there are anything from hundreds of thousands to millions of them, mostly in unknown orbits and each capable of smashing a satellite to smithereens.

An object hundreds or thousands of times the mass of the sun would represent an elusive class of black hole

For 18 months everything went well, then he relapsed and started to bang his head on objects and to punch or slap his face hundreds of times a day.

Now it is the object of a mammoth international modeling effort that is expected to occupy hundreds of scientists for 10 years at a cost of at least $ 100 million.

The first stars born in the universe are believed to have been massive objects, up to hundreds of times bigger than the sun.

In the past decade, astronomers have spotted hundreds of objects in the Kuiper belt, one of them (Eris) even bigger than Pluto.

But like a drop of red dye thrown into the ocean, those stars emerged into an enormous object — a galaxy boasting hundreds of billions of other stars.

With much shorter wavelengths than photons of visible light, electron beams can be used to observe objects hundreds of times smaller than those that can be resolved with an optical microscope.

It is entirely feasible that within those few days the earth could receive hundreds of blows like that of the Tunguska object.»

Before this, astronomers were forced to use much less reliable techniques to estimate the distances of objects more than a few hundred parsecs from our solar system.

Two of the objects, several hundred light years away, were identified by researchers as being the most Earth - like planets of any discovered to date.

The burning of fossil fuels is altering the ratio of carbon in the atmosphere, which may cause objects tested in the coming decades to seem hundreds or thousands of years older than they actually are, according a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As an object moves through the doughnut hole, the scanner takes hundreds of X-rays from a range of different angles.

Similarly to dwarf planets, there are potentially hundreds of plutoid objects in the solar system that have yet to be given official status.

The primary shows weaker alkali lines than field dwarfs of similar spectral type, but still consistent with either a high - gravity dwarf or a younger object of hundreds of millions of years.