Sentences with phrase «of sky area»

Though the field is a very small sample of sky area it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space because the universe, statistically, looks the same in all directions.

Not exact matches

Kepler finished collecting its first mission's data in May 2013, when two hardware failures limited the telescope's ability to aim at one area of the night sky and stare at sunlike stars.

A critical lack of affordable housing and sky - high rent prices have made the San Francisco Bay Area unlivable for many artists, artisans, longtime residents, and even tech entrepreneurs.

Broadband providers are traditionally more competitive on pricing than any other area of the home services market, and despite Sky's recent promotional activity its share in this market dropped two percentage points to 25 %.

On another occasion, a good friend told me about regularly seeing unusual objects in the sky of the remote area where he lived.

One result of the process — which certainly Mark would not have encouraged, though his work started the development in that direction — is the sentimental, saccharine, sickly - sweet Jesuolatry that has mistaken strong emotion for an evidence of religion, has softened the ethical fiber and beclouded the whole theological sky of certain areas of Christianity.

Who knows, perhaps competing gods are all sitting up in the sky, watching the Earth and selectively intervening to punish human beings in the geographical areas of the planet where their believers enjoy a majority and ignoring all other parts of the world.

People are not the same there are many Ranks, Degrees, Levels of Human Waves from down scratch status to highest above the sky financial status and surely that has direct effect on mentality and humor among each level... beside that there are the peasants and tribals in remote areas and cities out skirts who work in the cities but there are people of the cities which are highly educated and good status.

Ensconced in the heart of the city, this enduring property is only four miles from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and within walking distance to the many area attractions, including Talking Stick Resort Arena, Chase Field and the Heard Museum.

A two - hour bus ride to the mysterious, exotic East End of Montreal (the all - Francophone area, into which they never ventured otherwise); where everything was interesting and new, from the dark plumes of smoke that snaked across the sky from factory chimneys to the stray newspapers and empty plastic bags that swished across the neglected streets to the staccato joual that echoed down the alleys as they drove by.

Its ornate artwork of a beautiful night sky and a «tot area» with smaller toilets for little ones earned the Field Museum in Chicago the top spot in 2011.

United could do with a new signing in that area of the pitch with the news today that Michael Carrick is set to retire at the end of this season, according to Sky Sports.

«I think it was obvious to Arsenal fans and to Arsene Wenger that one of those areas to strengthen is the centre forward position», Winterburn told Sky Sports News HQ.

«If they can turn up, start on the front foot, put pressure on that back four with the pace they've got as well on the wide areas - Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez will be in the wide areas - then they could cause a few problems for Chelsea's defence,» Parlour, who was speaking on behalf of England team sponsor Vauxhall, told Sky Sports News HQ.

The angled pass into Sterling, followed by the delayed run into the penalty area bought him time when the ball fell out of the sky.

Within a matter of days Sky News found 14 farmers in one area of Somerset alone, who were willing to admit they were illegally gassing badgers.

A leakage of gas from one of two gas fuel stations in the enclave around the Atomic Junction reportedly triggered fire, which extended to an adjoining Total Filling Station causing two explosions that sent fireballs into the skies.Hundreds of passengers, traders and residents in and around the Atomic Junction area fled their homes and workplaces for safety as the explosions lit the skies and caused severe heat waves.Electricity supply to most part of the area was cut off as some transformers were affected.

Widely scattered rain showers and thunderstorms can linger into the overnight hours with mostly cloudy skies, low temperatures will only fall into the upper 60s with areas of patch, dense fog by early Sunday morning.

The Andromeda Galaxy is easily visible to the naked eye in a moderately dark sky, though such a sky is available only in smaller towns and isolated areas reasonably far from population centers and sources of light pollution.

The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.

Now, despite the depth of the Hubble observations, MUSE has — among many other results — revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky.

To make the effort even tougher, the search area happened to overlap with the star - rich Milky Way, a region of the night sky bursting with tiny pinpoints of light.

That's a big chunk of sky — the full moon covers only 0.2 square degrees — but it's an area 10 times smaller than what could have been determined with the LIGO detectors alone.

«It's a beautiful Saturday, sunny and with clear skies; a lot of families were coming to the area,» says Kim.

The trio of detectors allowed scientists to trace the source of the waves to a spot in the sky with an area of just 60 square degrees.

Weather patterns and a telescope's location, for instance, determine what areas of the sky it can look at and when.

Nemaungani sold the SKA committee on South Africa's clear skies (necessary for precision radio astronomy), the promised political support of its president and cabinet — who have passed legislation to strictly limit the amount of radio noise in the remote site area — and its expertise in engineering and infrastructure.

NASA supports the Spaceguard survey to the tune of $ 4.1 million per year, but that sum of money is not enough to cover the cost of continually monitoring all areas of the sky for near - Earth objects.

In this full - sky image, created with data from the new Planck space telescope, red and orange areas represent primordial lumps that gave rise to giant clusters of galaxies.

To find out how numerous dark galaxies really are, he will soon scan large areas of the sky using the giant 1,000 - foot radio telescope at Arecibo.

Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

This one was much less energetic, but it was coming from the same general area of the sky as the X-ray outbursts.

Over 150 days this summer, COROT will capture data from an area of sky roughly equal to the size of the constellation Orion.

It's an accusation that has often been lobbed at Keith's main area of study: geoengineering Earth's climate to counteract warming by, for instance, injecting particles into the sky to reflect sunlight.

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy's Sergey Koposov, the Cambridge study's lead author.

For example, the laser pulse is expected to stand steep in its temporal evolution just as Tokyo Sky Tree stands high to flat, instead of the Tokyo Tower, which spreads the scaffolding to the hilly area.

Luckily enough, the two flagship X-ray observatories, the ESA - led XMM - Newton and the NASA - led Chandra took snapshots of the same area of the sky close in time to the peak of the flare, and again about ten years later.

The Dark Energy Survey is looking at a new portion of the southern hemisphere, covering a different area of sky than the Sloan Digital Sky Survsky than the Sloan Digital Sky SurvSky Survey.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.

The flare looks identical to the flare from the first flash, which appeared in the area of sky to the top - left of the moon.

It enables an efficient search for very faint dwarf satellites over large areas of the sky.

Imagine a world where the average daytime temperature is -179 °C, and torrential rains of liquid methane fall from the skies, forming vast but shallow pools that cover an area larger than the Great Lakes.

The new instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea allows astronomers to map areas of the sky in wavelengths some 1,000 times longer than visible light.

IN 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote forest.

In 2013, another study compared how the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory compared to the CIB in the same area of the sky.

With its huge corrected field of view and specially designed 256 - megapixel camera, OmegaCAM, the VST can produce deep images of large areas of sky quickly, leaving the much larger telescopes — like ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT)-- to explore the details of individual objects.

The Taurid meteors are named after the constellation Taurus, because their paths can be traced back to that area of sky.

The map can't directly help with the dust controversy — the area of the sky mapped by BICEP2 is masked in the early map because the emission is very weak and researchers are still analyzing it.

Rather than looking at distant stars in a small area of sky, like Kepler did, TESS will look at closer stars over 85 per cent of the sky.