Sentences with phrase «of nearby bright»

She told Disney she'd spotted standalone galaxy - like objects right where the Parkes survey had found gas clouds identified as merely extended parts of nearby bright galaxies.

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My patience almost as depleted as my phone battery, we approached the grotto proper to kneel before a large bright painting of the Virgin depicted in red robes and untying knots handed to her by nearby angels.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

The day before, on April 2, I had gone to a Goodwill store in the city of Orange and purchased a disguise, clothes that would have suited any bum wandering around nearby MacArthur Park or the broken - bottle district of downtown L.A.: a $ 5 pair of baggy brown pants, marked down to $ 2.50, whose cuffs scraped the floor; a large gold shirt for $ 3; a white tie, with a bright yellow stain, for 15 cents; a pair of brown shoes, which I wore without socks or laces, for $ 5; and the ugliest sports coat in the store, a black number with red and white flecks, for $ 2.50.

At first, he won't be able to see anything more than a foot away from him in great detail, but he'll nevertheless enjoy the delicate play of shadows your window blinds project onto a nearby wall, a bright curtain gently fluttering in the breeze, and the varied shapes and colors of a big houseplant or an outdoor tree or bush.

One nearby example, the bright star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion, is at least as wide as the orbit of Mars.

Unlike most supernovae surveys, which look for bright bursts of light, Kochanek would monitor about 30 nearby galaxies for curious patches of darkness where a star had suddenly disappeared.

At least one source of these bright, brief blasts of radio energy may be a young neutron star assisted by a nearby massive black hole, new research suggests.

On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.

The craft will measure the sizes of known planets — from those a little bigger than Earth to ones that are roughly Neptune - sized — orbiting nearby bright stars.

The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.

Plugging in the numbers, the punch line is: If there is a rocky planet transiting a nearby bright M - star with signs of life in its atmosphere, we will be able to find it.

Team member Asantha Cooray of the University of California, Irvine, notes that there are fairly few bright sources of submillimetre light nearby, so «the brightest submillimetre sources are all gravitationally lensed».

The brightest object in a nearby star cluster, thought for decades to be a single star, is actually two massive stars in the process of merging.

That won't be a problem for PLATO, which will use 34 separate small telescopes to observe a wide field of view in order to monitor large numbers of bright, relatively nearby stars.

They are the locations of bright stars and other nearby objects that get in the way of the observations of more distant galaxies and are hence masked out in these maps as no weak - lensing signal can be measured in these areas.

First, the cluster is nearby, so its galaxies are bright and many of them have measured velocities.

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

But the remarkably still air on Mount Wilson — the same climatic condition that keeps LA choked in smog — promises some of the world's sharpest images of the Sun, nearby bright stars, and any planets found orbiting them.

Astronomers have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a bright, nearby Sun - like star using a ground - based telescope for the first time.

But light from nearby bright stars can drown out dimmer galaxies like the 72 new ones, none of which contain stars Hubble can see.

TESS — a spacecraft roughly the size of a washing machine — will search nearby bright stars for signs of planets.

The spectrograph produces 18 images at different wavelengths of light, which enables GPI to reject light from nearby stars, which can be up to 10 million times brighter than the planets being studied.

Quasars, discovered in 1963, are extremely distant massive black holes (MBHs) whose gravity pulls in immense amounts of nearby matter.24 The potential energy of all that infalling matter is converted to bright radiation, making quasars the most luminous stable objects in the universe.

«We saw a bright blue source of light in a nearby galaxy — the first time the glowing debris from a neutron star merger had ever been observed,» recalled Josh Simon, another of the Carnegie team's leaders on this discovery.

TESS is expected to launch in 2017 with its primary mission to monitor the 500,000 brightest and nearby stars for the signs of planets on orbits less than 30 days.

With clouds shrouding much of the sky, professor Steve Fossey decided to point the University's 14 - inch telescope at nearby galaxy Messier 82 (M82) and saw a very bright object that wasn't supposed to be there.

These massive, hot stars burned bright for a short time, emitting so much energy in the form of starlight that they pushed nearby gas clouds far away.

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption — one of the brightest ever seen on Io — on Aug. 29 at the start of a year - long series of Io observations led by de Kleer, using both the Near - Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near - infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

I saw one huge, bright dot, with three other tiny pinpoints of light nearby, all lined up in a row (just like the image at the top of this story).

This plot shows over one and a half million of the brightest stars and galaxies in the nearby universe detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in infrared light.

The team also mapped out all the positions of the brightest nearby cluster stars and was able to detect very small motions as the stars slowly revolved around each other.

A spectral line is a dark or bright line in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum, resulting from emission or absorption of light in a narrow frequency range, compared with the nearby frequencies.

TESS will observe these brighter nearby stars for exoplanets in order to identify a list of the best targets for follow - up observations by ground - based observatories and future space telescopes.

NGC 5128 is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky and one of the strangest looking galaxies in the nearby universe.

Our overall detection rate is 18 %, including four new detections, among which are... ▽ More The HOSTS (Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems) survey searches for dust near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main sequence stars.

Abstract: The HOSTS (Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems) survey searches for dust near the habitable zones (HZs) around nearby, bright main sequence stars.

These files include the 1991 («preliminary») versions of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue and the Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars (CNS3), which are compiliations of older and smaller star catalogues.

Instead, go find someone perky: A Harvard and University of California, San Diego study concluded that if a nearby friend is happy, you have a 25 % higher chance of feeling brighter.

These brutal savages track the sole surviving thief to the nearby town of Bright Hope.

In this scene from Carle's bright, colorful world, a tree stands in the snow with presents underneath and Santa nearby - and a field of windows hiding trinkets to be added to the tree.

With white panelled walls, stylish furniture and heavy plain curtains, they're only let down by the bright Vietnamese paintings on some of the walls — not in evidence in any of the shots on their website — which in our view should be reinstated in the souvenir shops along nearby Hang Gai and replaced with something more in keeping with the understated style of the rooms.

Aside from a warm, yellowish hew caused by the curtains and how much light reflects off the gold exterior of the nearby towers, the room was bright, modern and airy, with a separate rooms for living and sleeping.

At this 4 - star hotel your comfort comes first as modern and bright rooms offer magnificent views of the nearby area.

The following day saw us up, bright and early for our excursion to the nearby town of Quedlinberg.

Nicknamed the «Hotel of the Stars,» guests of the hotel are treated to an oasis of comforts including red carpet service; complimentary tram rides to nearby Universal Studios ® Hollywood and Universal CityWalk; a 24 - hour fitness center; an outdoor heated pool and Jacuzzi; signature restaurants and bars including a breathtaking rooftop space where a lobby bar and semi-private cabanas provide the perfect setting for relaxation and stylish guestrooms where Sheraton Sweet Sleeper (SM) beds, Starbucks 1 - cup service, Shine by Bliss bath products, a 32» LCD television, iHome iPod docking station / clock radio and wireless Internet create a comfortable home away from home amidst the bright lights and dynamic glamour of L.A..

Stay at one of several five - star hotels such as Cable Beach Club or Pinctada Cable Beach Resort & Spa, sample a locally brewed mango beer at the wildly popular Matso's Brewery, ride a camel along Cable Beach at sunset, see ancient fossilised stegosaurus prints in the bright red rock at Gantheaume Point, browse the open - air weekend markets in front of the pretty Courthouse building and shop for precious Pinctada maxima pearls, grown locally in the shimmering aqua waters nearby.

Many currently feature colors reminiscent of the tropical gardens and the ocean found nearby, with sea foam greens and bright and muted blues contrasted with clean whites, while others have leopard accents and «jungle - like» touches in pillow and drapery fabrics.

The bright lights of nearby Seminyak attract largely upscale clientele to partake in the lively nightlife and dine in its gourmet restaurants.

And if that and the amazing views aren't enough, you can easily head to the nearby bright lights of Crete's large resorts.