Sentences with phrase «of objects in the sky»

By recording the position of the objects in the sky, we learned than when the patterns in the sky repeat, the patterns on earth also repeat.

This led us to look at data from the Catalina Sky Survey, which monitors the brightness of objects in the sky over time.

«What is special about the microshutter device is it can select many objects in one viewing for simultaneous observation and it is programmable for any field of objects in the sky,» said Paul Geithner, deputy project manager — technical for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an amazing project: map out the positions and colors of objects in the sky to high precision.

Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky on a scale of apparent magnitude — the brighter the object, the greater the negative number; the dimmer, the greater the positive number.

In principle, measuring astronomical parallax is easy: measure the position of an object in the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (eg.

The Hubble results have revolutionized the state of knowledge in virtually any branch of astronomy — not that every good result comes from the HST, but as these data are available publicly, they are used if ever possible; from planets, comets, and asteroids to stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, every sort of objects in the sky were investigated, often obtaining most revolutionary results.