A worldwide network of telescopes sprang into action to look for light in the region
of the sky where LIGO and Virgo predicted the waves came from.
South Africa's new MeerKAT radio telescope has discovered more than 1300 galaxies in a tiny patch
of sky where we'd only spotted 70 before.
Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part
of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.
They also picked a part
of the sky where dust should be relatively sparse.
After gravitational waves narrowed down the region
of sky where two neutron stars collided, telescopes pinpointed a spot of light (right, indicated with red lines) where none had been before (left).
Within minutes, they could determine the general area
of the sky where the explosion would occur, point their infrared telescopes in that direction, and wait for the fireworks.
X-ray image of the Chandra Deep Field - South, the region
of the sky where the flaring X-ray source was discovered.
On 28 March, NASA's Swift telescope detected several bright bursts of X-rays coming from a patch
of the sky where no X-rays had been detected before.
TESS will target areas
of the sky where new planets will likely be easier to spot than those studied by the venerable Kepler Space Telescope, giving observatories on the ground a better chance of confirming the discovery of new exoplanets.
LIGO scientists were able to identify the wide patch
of sky where the black hole merger took place but were unable to pinpoint its exact location.
He was performing astrophysical «due diligence,» sifting with the help of a supercomputer through all the telescope data that had been collected from the part
of the sky where the Spitler burst originated, to see whether the source might send a second signal.
To detect an FRB in the first place, a telescope must happen to be pointed directly at the area
of the sky where it originates.
«For a number of years now, I've been routinely looking toward the region
of sky where we thought this thing might be,» said Frail, «hoping the magnetar would show itself.»
In this particular, even the scientists established that the region
of sky where the source was located was around 60 square degrees big and was searched by 25 different groups of astronomers.
Not exact matches
This wasn't the kind
of surprise bankruptcy
of the type that Toys «R» Us had engineered,
where affected bonds plunged 78 % in two weeks, from no - clouds - on - the -
sky 97 cents on the dollar on September 4, 2017, to the end - is - nigh 21 cents on the dollar by September 18.
Here is
where the
sky ends, the horizon curving away to reveal the star - freckled shadow
of space.
«Ready Player One» is set in 2045, in a world
where people live in
sky - high stacks
of trailer homes.
Most tragedies happen somewhere: the spot
where the towers fell on 9/11, the beaches
where the waves came ashore during the Asian tsunami, the sunflower fields
where the pieces
of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell after it was blasted out
of the Ukrainian
sky last summer.
Of course, matching the landscape to your degree of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging i
Of course, matching the landscape to your degree
of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging i
of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing
where to live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering for living tucked away in a mountain valley or next to the wide open
sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging it.
Yes the banks and local governments can be a problem such as in LA
where the California Environmental Quality Act is preventing new home building leading to
sky high prices
of homes.
FinCEN seems to dream
of a Vanilla
Sky future
where they can predict and prevent financial crimes.
where he learned business fundamentals under the blue
skies on his father's farm, to closing deals that helped generate some
of the greatest value creation in the energy industry.
It is designed to force out -
of - province owners to contribute more to B.C. government coffers or rent out their homes in cities
where rents are
sky - high and vacancy rates less than one per cent.
A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights
of the city, I saw the entire
sky «powdered with stars» (in Milton's words); such a
sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that
of Atacama in Chile (
where some
of the world's most powerful telescopes are).
Outrage flared over the Internet earlier on Monday when Uber users reported
sky - high prices for Uber rides out
of Martin Place,
where the crisis is currently enfolding.
The spacecraft reached an altitude
of 100 kilometers at its apex — the height
where our
sky officially «turns into» outer space, known as the Kármán line.
The dieing sun uses the same red, painting the
sky with the wonder
of the infinite,
where time and space and your very soul are brought within a breathe
of each other, and your humanity begins to come alive.
There was this thing about 10 years ago
where a bunch
of people flew jets into buildings because they hated the people in those buildings who didn't believe in an invisible
sky daddy like they do.
The Lady herself is beautiful, as is the place
where she appears, «in Lourdes / by the grotto,
where you hear the rustle
of the river and, / in the pure blue
sky above the mountains, a narrow scrap
of moon.»
Speaking to Premier Christian Radio, Peter said: «There was a big shaft
where they bring down all
of the equipment and we looked 40 metres up to blue
skys and London buildings that almost looked like they were going to topple down the shaft.
Bible cosmology imagines that the «
sky» is actually surrounded by a hard «firmament»
where the stars are stuck and
where holes let out the rain from a water layer outside
of it.
``... Borders soft with refugees Streets a» swimming with amputees It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue
sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the wolves are howling at our door Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy
of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They're guilty when killed and they're killed
where they're found If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It's a Hell
of a Heaven we must go to when we die...»
To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night
sky and see more than the infinite reach
of empty space and the eternal stretch
of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above,
where Christ is, seated at the right hand
of God» (3:1).
From Famadihana (
where the body is disinterred and paraded around in a dance) in Madagascar to
Sky Burials (the bodies are incised and left for the birds to eat) in Tibet, the world is full
of unique funeral customs!
There are no designs in the night
sky, no realm
of human knowledge
where there is any proof
of the supernatural actually happening.
One last idea... Most kids get the basic idea that heaven is in the
sky, and hell is in the core
of the Earth
where it is already hot... But what if you were born in space on a station or vessel?
Recently, for example, planeloads
of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo,
where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle
of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return
of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words
of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the
sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death
of the old world.
The idea then current was that astronomy is a branch
of mathematics devoted to calculating
where and when things appear in the
sky, whereas it was the job
of «philosophy» (as science was then called) to explain the nature and causes
of things.
@islamistheanswer, Sure, while the poster seems to think that «parting» means the Big Bang, to me it seems silly to think that the Big Bang would come after heaven and already exist and likely was just and rationalization
of where land came from, i.e. splitting the oceans from the
sky.
I find that much more believable than the presence
of some preexisting
sky fairy (which came from
where?)
So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom
where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the
sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit
of despair for all eternity.
I wonder if we will ever get to the point as a nation
where the vast majority
of us DO NOT believe in Iron Age myths from the Middle East about
sky - gods and evil ground spirits.
On another occasion, a good friend told me about regularly seeing unusual objects in the
sky of the remote area
where he lived.
The radical contingencies are what inspire a sense
of awe and wonder: the fact that I exist at all, and the further fact that I am who I am; a «miraculous» recovery by someone who was given no chance to live; a sudden break in a stormy
sky where the sun bursts through.
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.
It is a rugged and strong land, a land whose charm is austere: rocky hills climbing their juniper studded slopes steeply to the
sky - line, narrow glens, hasty watercourses, but ever the sudden view from a hilltop over peopled valleys and far regions
where mellowing distance clothes the hills in a veil
of allurement and entices one on to things that the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard.
Make me immortal in that realm, Wherein is movement glad and free, In the third
sky, third heaven
of heavens,
Where are the lucid worlds
of light.
Beyond is the harbor, deep with the blue
of the Mediterranean, and to the right the white sweep
of a semicircle far round to Accho,
where the coast falls away in the distance, and sea and
sky and shore blend in one mysterious whole.
I spent the summer
of my sophomore year at an evangelical youth camp in Northern California, a place
of timbered fields and boundless blue
skies,
where, given enough time and stillness and soft - spoken encouragement, one could not help but hear the voice
of God.
Was it straight up to the third story at the top
of the
sky, or
where was it?»).