Sentences with phrase «on objects in space»

The current works bring together abstract figures, suggested landscapes, and visceral reflections on objects in space.

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Also, there is no substantial law on who can claim what objects or resources in space, beyond the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that declared space open for most kinds of exploitation, so long as «states» clean up their mess, leaving no contamination or dangerous objects that could harm otspace, beyond the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that declared space open for most kinds of exploitation, so long as «states» clean up their mess, leaving no contamination or dangerous objects that could harm otSpace Treaty that declared space open for most kinds of exploitation, so long as «states» clean up their mess, leaving no contamination or dangerous objects that could harm otspace open for most kinds of exploitation, so long as «states» clean up their mess, leaving no contamination or dangerous objects that could harm others.
I feel like meeting someone in meatspace that I've developed a relationship with online would be a lot like having a dream where your mind has placed a really familiar object in a place that it's not supposed to be... like your car on a boat, or your mom in a space suite.
Whitehead's cosmology is based on a double foundation: time - space, on the one hand, and what he (in Process and Reality) calls «eternal objectson the other.
If I were to conceive of both myself and the object as world - lines in space - time that intersect on the occasions when the object reacts against me, I would view myself as an object in the world of existents and there would be nothing external to me in the epistemological sense of an external world.
Planet Hollywood at Disney Springs features 3 - D interiors that come to life through trompe l'oeil 3 - D technology, an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create an optical illusion that objects exist in the space rather than on the screen.
In the section on tape - measure shots, for example, we have this observation by former Yankees pitching great Lefty Gomez: «When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object.
Visual motor skills (or what non-child development nerds call hand - eye coordination) for this age include stacking and putting objects in a very defined space, like a ring on a dowel.
In outer space, US aversion to casualties can also be noted, for example, when the US participated in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, in 196In outer space, US aversion to casualties can also be noted, for example, when the US participated in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, in space, US aversion to casualties can also be noted, for example, when the US participated in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, in 196in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, in Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, in Space, in 196in 1967.
Even in Einstein's theory of relativity, where distances and timescales can change depending on an observer's reference frame, an object's location in space - time is precisely defined.
Just as a bedsheet hanging on a clothesline appears to be a two - dimensional object hanging in a three - dimensional world, all of space - time would be suspended in a higher - order space.
«Because ultraviolet light from objects in space can be detected only by telescopes located outside Earth's atmosphere, Swift's UVOT telescope provided unique data on this event.
Gas and dust in space can have an impact on the brightness of standard candles — objects with known brightness such as type 1a supernovas and some variable stars
«This is important because each saccade shifts the position of visible objects on the retina, and hence the brain needs to know the stable positions of objects in external space,» says Dr. Pack.
Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the meteorite «parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.
The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.
«From 423 miles in space, we'll be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond,» says Brender.
According to a report in the newsletter of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, a 3 - kilogram metallic object fell from the sky on the village of Ede, the Netherlands, on 4 March, piercing the ceiling of a post office.
The optical flashes that carry our messages are generated by such lasers, whose core workings Einstein envisioned in those distant World War I years; the bar codes on every object we purchase also depend on Einstein's lasers being able to accurately read those coded spacings.
After working on the organic composition of interstellar dust, Coulson has now turned his attention to meteoroids (solid objects in space, renamed meteors when they enter the earth's atmosphere).
The volume is the amount of space an object fills in three - dimensional space (which tells approximately how much a container, like a juice box, can hold), and the surface area is the total amount of area on the outer surface of the object (which tells approximately how much material was used to create the shape).
«It is amazing,» says Chris Draper, who works on the heat shield for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter — which will go closer to the sun than any other human - made object — at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres.
In his letter, Wilken Sporys reflects on the idea that for an object «travelling» at the speed of light, space...
In mice, depending on the strain, the sexes may exhibit different levels of anxiety, detected by how willing the animals are to explore new objects or spaces.
Other behavioral tests examine sociability, giving the mice the choice to spend time either with other mice or with inanimate objects; risk - taking, in which the mice either venture out on to a high open ledge or hide in a dark enclosed space; and repetitive behavior, where the focus is on excessive grooming or jumping.
Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.
For the first time in history, humans knew the stars not just as points on a sky chart but as objects with defined locations in three - dimensional space.
The star names were officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union, which oversees the naming of objects in space, and announced on December 11.
New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced today.
But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.
Emily Conover reports on a study that re-creates in space Galileo's most famous experiment, confirming once again that objects in a vacuum fall at the same rate no matter their composition.
Researchers found that people who engaged in more regular sexual activity scored higher on tests that measured their verbal fluency and their ability to visually perceive objects and the spaces between them.
If and when nuclear explosives are less threatening to us on the ground, there might be reasons to establish an Orion - based Deep Space Force — a small fleet of unmanned vehicles, stationed in high orbit under international control, on standby to deflect meteors or other objects that threaten Earth.
In this virtual space, the researchers hope to track patterns of movement of the astronauts and objects over time, which might allow them to understand patterns of life on the station in the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on EartIn this virtual space, the researchers hope to track patterns of movement of the astronauts and objects over time, which might allow them to understand patterns of life on the station in the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on Eartin the same way that they might when looking at an archaeological site on Earth.
The massive space rock — the first object to score above zero on the Torino hazard scale, which ranks the danger of an extraterrestrial impact — has about 1 chance in 500 of colliding with Earth in 2030, astronomers estimate.
DURING HIS TIME IN GUANGZHOU, Leonhardt planned to work on the theory of Casimir forces, a strange pull or push between two closely spaced objects that arises because of quantum mechanical fluctuations in the vacuum of empty spacIN GUANGZHOU, Leonhardt planned to work on the theory of Casimir forces, a strange pull or push between two closely spaced objects that arises because of quantum mechanical fluctuations in the vacuum of empty spacin the vacuum of empty space.
The measurement technique relies on radio telescopes picking up radio waves emitted by objects in space; the more accurately scientists can determine the positions of the radio telescopes, the more precisely they can measure various characteristics of the Earth.
Kalas and two of his co-authors, astronomy professor James Graham of U.C. Berkeley and astrophysicist Mark Clampin of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., had ventured in 2005 that Fomalhaut should harbor planet - size objects in its orbit, based on the disk of dust ringing the star.
«The fact that the models predict the neural responses and the distances of objects in neural population space shows that these models encapsulate our current best understanding as to what is going on in this previously mysterious portion of the brain,» says DiCarlo, who is also a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
«Outside, shadows create lines, which appear on the tongue as objects in space,» Erik says.
Stephen Thorsett of Princeton University in New Jersey has been thinking about the implications for life on Earth should a nearby object in space suddenly emit a powerful burst of gamma rays.
In this interview, Joanne touches on some of the complexity of proving objects from outer space landed in a particular time zonIn this interview, Joanne touches on some of the complexity of proving objects from outer space landed in a particular time zonin a particular time zone.
On January 10, 2005, astronomers using the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope announced that the dust disk is bigger than previously estimated and was probably created by collisions of protoplanetary objects as big as the planet Pluto, up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,200 miles) in diameter (press release — more below).
Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.
Our sample of 107 YSO candidates was selected based on IRAC colors from the high spatial resolution, high sensitivity Spitzer / IRAC images in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), which spans th... ▽ More We present results from our spectroscopic study, using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to identify massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Galactic Center (GC).
Abstract: Extremely red objects, identified in the early Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the bright - rimmed globule IC 1396A and photometrically classified as Class I protostars Class II T Tauri stars based on their mid-infrared colors, were observed spectroscopically at 5.5 to 38 microns (IRS), at the 22 GHz water maser frequency (GBT), and in the optical (Palomar).
The sources photometrically ide... ▽ More Extremely red objects, identified in the early Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the bright - rimmed globule IC 1396A and photometrically classified as Class I protostars Class II T Tauri stars based on their mid-infrared colors, were observed spectroscopically at 5.5 to 38 microns (IRS), at the 22 GHz water maser frequency (GBT), and in the optical (Palomar).
The Sun is located on the lawn of Keck Observatory, while the outer planets are found around a bend in space (aka the Mamalahoa Highway), with the farthest objects at the headquarters of the CFHT.
The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far - Infrared (HIFI) on the Herschel Space Observatory observed three deeply embedded protostars in the low - mass star - for... ▽ More «Water In Star - forming regions with Herschel» (WISH) is a key programme dedicated to studying the role of water and related species during the star - formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objectin the low - mass star - for... ▽ More «Water In Star - forming regions with Herschel» (WISH) is a key programme dedicated to studying the role of water and related species during the star - formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objectIn Star - forming regions with Herschel» (WISH) is a key programme dedicated to studying the role of water and related species during the star - formation process and constraining the physical and chemical properties of young stellar objects.
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