Sentences with phrase «of the sky took»

Even so, the Hubble's ability to see so many of these lenses in a small fraction of the sky takes them from being a scientific curiosity to serving as a potentially powerful tool for probing the universe's evolution and expansion.

One complete scan of the sky took four days, or 400 feet of paper.

Kashlinsky and his team at Goddard examined a deep - exposure image of a patch of sky taken by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and then subtracted the light from all the evident stars and galaxies.

Leavitt's work focused on the detailed analysis of photographs of the sky taken with Harvard's 24 - inch Bruce Telescope in Arequipa, Peru.

Van Maanen measured motion in seconds of arc per year, an angular rate of motion, by comparing photographs of the same region of the sky taken years apart.

Altered photographs of the sky taken at his residency frame the single two - hour composition, and offer a personal, nostalgic encounter with a more leisurely moment — one that sets up a tension within the LACA workspace.

Photographs of the sky taken outside deKooning's studio on eastern Long Island (24 ″ x 18 ″ C - print mounted on panel, 80 ″ x 60 ″ C - print) and an in - progress piece made from carpentry remnants.

Not exact matches

But Indigo's deal shows the strength of budget airlines are gaining worldwide as record numbers of travelers take to the skies.

Airbus said its order intake for its helicopter unit fell 5 percent last year from 2016, while demand for passenger jets is surging as record numbers of travelers take to the sky.

As a record number of people took to the skies in the U.S. last year, the airline industry found customer satisfaction edged lower.

These so - called «liveries» have a host of unique designs, and CNBC recently took a look at some of the new versions flying the friendly skies.

Some investors sold airline shares amid worries over executives» ability to both forecast and navigate higher costs, even though record numbers of travelers are taking to the skies.

The Murdoch family have never wavered in their ambition to take full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt five years ago when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone - hacking scandal.

He told Sky News: «George Osborne did a fantastic job of taking this economy from the disastrous position we were in 2010.

If the funder is selling directly to merchants, given today's sky - high marketing costs, acquisition can take a bigger chunk out of the 40 percent — more like 12 to 15 points (the industry average cost of acquisition for a $ 30,000 advance is $ 2,600).

The JB - 9, which can climb 10,000 feet in the sky at speeds of up to 63 miles per hour, is far from the first jetpack to take to the skies and it won't be the last.

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

This summer will mark the first full flying season for commercial UAS in the Arctic and the first time commercial UAS will take to the skies for any length of time in U.S. airspace.

Virgin America, which took to the skies in 2007 just before the financial crisis, earned $ 10.2 million on revenue of $ 1.42 billion in 2013, its first ever profitable year.

Fox, which already owns 39 percent of the European pay - TV group, had already put forward steps it would take to guarantee the independence of Sky News, such as funding it for 10 years and creating an independent board of directors.

Armed flying drones have been taking to the skies in Afghanistan and Iraq for the better part of a decade, while Israel is currently using armed ground robots such as the Guardium, likely in its current conflict in Gaza.

In contrast to Ong's product - based approach, Roosegaarde's work has mainly taken the form of large - scale installations, among them a fluorescent bike path that glows like Van Gogh's night skies, giant kites that can supply up to 200 households with green energy, and «the world's largest vacuum cleaner» to suck up air pollution in public spaces.

When Roberts was weighing an offer for Sky, a trip to see Sky's products in store, and the knowledge of the London taxi driver that took him there, helped to make up his mind.

Porter's chosen place of business continues to be as much a hindrance to its business plan as it is a boon — for now, its passengers will still have to take a boat before they can fly Toronto's semi-friendly skies.

Hedge fund Elliott has taken a stake of almost 3 percent in Sky, according to its latest filing, and other shareholders have also argued that Disney's agreement to buy Fox implies a higher value for Sky.

I even found myself with 30 minutes to spare, and because of that, he took me directly to the Sky Club to wait for my flight and handed me a thank you card for being a loyal Delta customer.

In quick succession, Murdoch closed the 168 - year - old News of the World and abandoned his multibillion - pound attempt to take full control of the lucrative British Sky Broadcasting, while Prime Minister David Cameron appointed a judge to conduct a sweeping inquiry into criminal activity at the paper and in the British media.

Competitive bidding could very well be an effective way of fighting sky - high drug prices that are taking a toll on patients and their families.

Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

Industry trade group Airlines for America is out with projections of flier volumes for the travel - heavy Thanksgiving holiday, and it expects the Sunday after Turkey Day — November 26 — to be the busiest of all with an estimated 2.88 million people taking to the skies.

From December 15 to January 4, U.S. airlines have added an average of 91,000 more seats for about 80,000 more passengers expected each day compared to last year (when 49.3 million passengers took to the sky).

In 2018, we expect the peak viewing hours to take place in the dark hours before dawn April 22, at which time the moon will be out of the sky.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

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Activist investor Elliott Management Corp. has taken a 3.1 % stake in Sky PLC (SKY.LN) after the European pay - TV operator became the subject of competing bids from U.S. media giants.

The world won't end, the sky is still blue (well — usually), and gold and silver probably shouldn't take up more than 5 % of your portfolio.

To believe in childish sky fairies takes an I.Q. of lower than 80... which you seem to have!

When the totality of facts are taken into account, «miracles» turn out to be nothing more than believers who are desperate for some sign of my existence ignoring the downside of a set of facts, focusing solely on the upside and calling the quarantined «good» a miracle from me or one of the other sky - fairies.

Or maybe he's just too humble that thousands of people can't help taking his picture... only the Sky Gods know for sure!

It takes a lack of intelligence to believe that a magical sky fairy impregnated a virgin with himself so he could die and then go to heaven and hang out with himself.

Let them talk to their invisible Sky Daddy while we sane people take care of the actual problems here in the real world.

Bret: Becoming born again is only a life - changing event to a weak - minded fool who has never found any other way to take control of himself, and hands over responsibility for his own life to an invisible sky daddy.

Do they believe in a magic man who is going to fall out of the sky and magically take away all the pain in the world?

Or take a certain group of Tibetin Buddhists who practice «sky burial.»

When a President (Bush) utilizes his military to invade another country (Iraq) and cause the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians all because he believed his god told him it was the right thing to do... yeah, I think we have a right to bash people who take direction from invisible sky fairies.

Because I almost always consider pulling over on the side of the road just to take photos of our Sunday drive: the crisp blue sky and the sharp green rolling hills, the turning - red blueberry bushes squatted across the fields, the rise of the mountains in the haze of morning, but how can you Instagram the rush of cold air in your lungs and how it makes you feel so beautifully, so fully, alive?

A Being was taking form in the totality of space; a Being with the attractive power of a soul, palpable like a body, vast as the sky; a Being which mingled with things yet remained distinct from them; a Being of a higher order than the substance of things with which it was adorned, yet taking shape within them.

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

Those who take to the skies know that mother nature is indifferent and will kill you dead just as soon as smile on you — it's your knowledge of yourself, your aircraft, and your operating environment and acting accordingly that determines whether you fly and arrive safely.

If you take the time to look up into the sky at night, or amaze at life itself, or think deeply about black holes, or try to understand how complicated something as simple as a tree leaf is, and NOT think there is the possibility of there being angels, demons, God, and Satan... well, then I say you are missing something big.