Sentences with phrase «of light years»

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.

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

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

Over time, this cluster's stars have spread out and are now tens of thousands of light years apart.

Our galaxy is a huge disc of stars millions of light years across and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disc.

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

Some of these stars were hundreds of light years away.

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

In total, these solar lamps bring more than 7.3 million hours of light each year.

At the moment, countries are a couple of light years away from where they need to be.

It is cozy in the winter and refreshing in the summer, reflects lots of light year round and is so neutral it goes with just about everything.

Obviously if the speed of light was far greater in the past, light from objects which are billions of light years away could have reached earth in just a few thousand years!

A typical galaxy shines with the energy from billions of stars and is tens of thousands of light years (or more) across.

Their mutual gravity can draw galaxies together into a cluster that is several millions of light years across.

I traveled hundreds of light years to sit here tonight in front of you.

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.

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.

Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, typically containing several million to some trillion stars, of masses between several million and several trillion times that of our Sun, of an extension of a few thousands to several 100,000 s light years, typically separated by millions of light years distance.

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.

We have been to Paris four times already and we are planning on visiting the city of lights this year again, but before booking our flights to Paris we started playing on Nustay's website to see if we could find a good hotel deal.

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.

Galaxies which emit radio waves also have jets of gas, but these are more tenuous and much longer, extending millions of light years into space.

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

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.

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.

Messier object number 24 is not a «true» deep sky object, but a huge star cloud in Milky Way, a pseudo-cluster of stars spread thousands of light years along the line of sight, perceived through a chance tunnel in the interstellar dust.

The filaments are huge, stretching for tens of light years through space and Herschel has shown that newly - born stars are often found in the densest parts of them.

The prelit trees are so convenient, but seems I have to add a strand of lights every year.

It has honestly been really difficult for me to put into words my overall reading experience of Light Years by Emily Ziff Griffin.

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.

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

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.

These explosions are so bright they can be seen at distances of millions or even billions of light years from Earth.

Researchers used computers to study this weak lensing of the CMB and produce a map of filaments, which typically span hundreds of light years in length.

It may seem odd that we are able to detect thousands of exoplanets on systems hundreds of light years away, and yet we can not confirm the existence of planets in our nearest star, just four light years from us.

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.

The radio waves in question come from quasars, which are supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies billions of light years away from Earth.

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.

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.

These tiny waves gradually stretched to hundreds of thousands of light years across as the expanding, lightless universe cooled down following the super-hot instant of inflation.

Paris is one of the top destinations in the world, with millions flocking to see the City of Lights each year.

The linear size of galaxies also scatters, ranging from small dwarfs of few thousands of light years diameter (like M32) to respectable several 100,000 light years.

Keck Observatory's MOSFIRE collects visible - light photons from objects billions of light years away whose wavelengths have been stretched or «redshifted» to the infrared by the expansion of the Universe.

This is made up largely of dark matter and is so massive that it bends light around itself and acts as a gravitational lens millions of light years in diameter.

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

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