Sentences with phrase «of light year»

Yellin took the stage and, after a typically endearing mystical non-sequitur («I've been thinking about the weight of a light year»), proceeded to thank the many people who help make Pioneer Works a home for art but also science, music, and all manner of creative pursuits.

Kuelbs tells Arte Fuse about the success of LIGHT YEAR, how DUMBO became an artist hub, and upcoming shows in New York and Berlin.

Artist: James Rosenquist Title: Israel Flag at the Speed of Light Year: 2006 Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: 50 Size: 33.5 x 22 in.

Although quasars can be very bright, they are rare and are comparatively small, only a fraction of a light year across, whereas galaxies are quite common and provide a 100 million-fold increase in area to probe DLAs.

The closest average approach of stars in the spiral arms during such a collision will be about a tenth of a light year.

The most recent Hubble observations show that the physical shockwave from the giant blast is just now reaching the innermost of three mysterious gas rings circling the dead star at a distance of two - thirds of a light year.

They found a huge area stretching for thousands of light years from the Milky Way's core that had very few Cepheids.

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

This array will, it is said, be able to detect the faintest energy emanating from distant stars — billions of light years from the earth.

The entire science is based on calculations that use the speed of light and we know that objects are millions of light years away.

As children learn the simple Trigonometry with which to measure the millions of light years distance of stars, they think they have to chose between accepting math or Christianity.

Is earth, like a garden used by intelligent beings, millions of light years away?

Quantum entanglement suggests that distance must be an illusion, even millions or billions of light years of it.

It says that we're only a tiny blip in the Universe — an inconsequential mote in the outer spiral arm of a conventional spiral galaxy trillions of light years wide.

One of the best I ever heard was a Creationist, when challenged that the Earth must be older since we can see light from stars millions of light years away, answered that God created the light already on its way so that we'd see it.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

Why would God create a universe around us with whole galaxies thousands of light years away?

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

I'm fully aware that one of the most perplexing issues surrounding the creation model of the universe is the question of how we could see starlight from millions of light years away if the universe was much younger.

It's been a few hundred years now without an adequate explanation of why dinosaur fossils exist, or how we can see light from galaxies millions of light years away.

Once you understand that you're seeing across thosands if not millions of light years... how magnificently HUGE the universe is, you'll understand how truly insignificant you are... and how pointless it is to get your panties in a wad over each and every tribulation in your life.

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

We cant even see whats on the other side of the Moon, and we are led to believe about a black hole Billions of light years away based on a telescope?

What if we could travel millions of light years in some direction away from earth..

Christmas lights are fleeting nowadays, but it seems like every town has that one neighborhood that's known for their expansive collection of lights each year.

They are measured by the variation in brightness to the time allowed between each change, This measures the distance to objects 10s of millions of light years across.

Within the massive scope of our known universe, hundreds of billions of light years wide, there's no galaxy, no life form, nothing that remotely cares about what I did or didn't do with my life.

The world is full of people who have all the answers to all the problems — when armchair punters / fans convince themselves that they have an obvious solution to an obvious problem it is pretty near damn certain that the problem and solution are a shit load of light years away from being «obvious» or «simple».

This is a map of the cube of spacetime covered in the new survey, showing the distance to the galaxies in billions of light years.

However, because they occur in short bursts and originate in distant galaxies — sometimes even billions of light years from Earth — scientists have not been able to exactly pinpoint what causes them.

It seems the particles that Enrico Fermi dubbed neutrinos, meaning «little neutral ones», might stretch across billions of light years.

«It's therefore quite remarkable that the observation of a single binary neutron star merger that occurred millions of light years away combined with the universal relations discovered through our theoretical work have allowed us to solve a riddle that has seen so much speculation in the past.»

THOUGH telescopes routinely spot galaxies billions of light years away, they may be missing many in our own cosmic backyard.

Separated by hundreds of light years, the individual galaxies sailed right past each other, and the two clusters parted ways.

Windows into other dimensions could explain mysterious objects billions of light years across

It is quite probable that Earth 2.0 will be hundreds or even thousands of light years away; too far from us to detect trace chemical «biosignatures» that would suggest life.

Enormous black holes in galaxies millions of light years away are pelting us with energetic particles.

Enter one of these tunnels through space - time, and a few short steps later you may emerge near Pluto or even in the Andromeda galaxy millions of light years away.

These particles are high - energy neutrinos: subatomic hints of apocalyptic events occurring millions of light years away.

JELLYFISH galaxies are dead ringers for their aquatic namesakes, with blob - like bodies and star - studded tentacles that can be tens of thousands of light years long.

In recent years, Margaret Geller and John Huchra of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have compiled three — dimensional maps of the Universe which show galaxies spread in thin sheets surrounding bubble - like voids hundreds of millions of light years across.

It so happens that there is a galaxy roughly half way between Earth and the blazar, which is billions of light years away.

Some of these stars were hundreds of light years away.

Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.

Forming lines of energy billions of light years long, it is narrower than a proton, and so dense that a piece 1 metre long weighs as much as an entire continent.

By studying the neutrinos that IceCube detects, scientists can learn about the nature of astrophysical phenomena occurring millions, or even billions of light years from Earth, Sullivan said.

Unseen by its minions, it holds sway over the billions of solar systems that stretch for thousands of light years beyond.

Harrison's model can explain features of the Universe that have stumped cos - mologists, such as huge chains of galaxies that stretch for hundreds of millions of light years.

«The detection of light from these planets hundreds to thousands of light years away is on its own remarkable,» said study co-author Dr. Ernst de Mooij, the Michael West Fellow at the Astrophysics Research Centre from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University Belfast.

Vennes says it is probably a remnant from just such a supernova that occurred 5 to 50 million years ago, tens of thousands of light years away (Science, doi.org/cbxz).