Sentences with phrase «passing in front of»

This is particularly effective when, for example, you want to detect any encroachment on your front yard without picking up cars or pedestrians passing in front of your house.

In their research on magistrates in Australia, Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack report one judge who characterised his work as «seeing absolute misery passing in front of you day in, day out, month in, month out, year in, year out».

So, if a planet is passing in front of a star, Kepler can detect it from a great distance.

A sequence of ten paintings depict a film test - intended to be used by technicians to calibrate how color is captured and presented on film, not necessarily seen by an audience - of a woman's hand passing in front of various colors of cloth.

All they see are shadows projected on the wall from things passing in front of a fire behind them.

Angel Otero: Mercury passing in front of the sun, 2011 / / Image courtesy of the artist, Lehmann Maupin, NY and Kavi Kupta Gallery, Chicago

I'm interested in this question of being held by an image now, in a society in which they are constantly passing in front of us.

One of my favorite shots is actually a fluke... a jet plane goes from the lower left to upper right by passing in front of the starburst effect of the unfiltered sun.

Or do you conclude the cat has dispensed a run of good luck, by passing in front of you?

A shadow passing in front of the flea will make it hop towards the shadow.

Passing in front of the TV, he'll drag hard on an imaginary cigarette, then toss the phantom cig on the floor, grind it out, and slap his right arm to his left bicep, exhaling with instant relief.

Every moment of this limited series looms, and looms heavily, and in case you still don't get it, an early scene depicts «The Looming Tower's» star — Jeff Daniels as the head of an New York - based FBI counterterrorism squad — passing in front of the still - standing twin towers of the World Trade Center.

If the lens system is aligned so that both objects can magnify the source, there are two periods of brightening / dimming which mark first one then the other object passing in front of the source.

Essentially, the researchers saw another star, located behind the brown dwarf and planet, brighten in a characteristic pattern, one most likely due to the pair passing in front of it.

In March of 2011, the star dimmed by 22 % of its original brightness, suggesting something big was passing in front of it.

During partial eclipses most sunlight is blocked by the Moon passing in front of the Sun, but the uncovered parts of the photosphere have the same surface brightness as during a normal day.

Then 700 days later in 2013, the star dimmed significantly again, but this time did so irregularly — suggesting that not just one but many large objects were passing in front of the star.

This sped - up movie from the Curiosity rover shows Phobos (the larger of Mars» two moons) passing in front of smaller Deimos.

Image shows the planet passing in front of its host star.

Both Kepler and its K2 mission discover new planets by measuring the subtle dip in a star's brightness caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

He made a list of 50 dwarf stars, and because they are small and dim, a planet passing in front of one of them would be more easily seen from Earth.

This video depicts NASA's Curiosity rover observing Mars» two moons, then shows one moon passing in front of the other.

Any object larger than dust particles would dim all wavelengths of light equally when passing in front of Tabby's Star.

This plot captures the nearest known rocky exoplanet, dubbed HD 219134b, in the act of passing in front of its star.

To bring you up to speed, the main method NASA is using to identify potential planets is by detecting «transits,» which are dips in a star's brightness caused by something passing in front of it.

As the exoplanet blocks a tiny amount of light by passing in front of its star, Kepler detects the transit and can gauge the physical size of the world based on how much starlight it blocks.

The tight BC pair is relatively bright in x-rays near their poles (and seems to be transferring mass), with each star passing in front of the other every three hours.

A star dims a certain way (at least from Earth's perspective) when a planet is passing in front of it.

It's one of the tools JWST will use to capture sight of distant planets passing in front of stars, then analyze the data to be able to identify worlds where the signatures of life, like water and methane, are present.

Observers at different locations see different parts of the asteroid, or its moons, passing in front of the star.

An artist's illustration of cometary fragments passing in front of a star.

Gravitational microlensing works by a planetary body — or any body for that matter with significant mass, such as a brown dwarf or even a black hole — passing in front of a star.

Earlier this year, U.S. and Japanese astronomers published a paper on their discovery of one star in a nearby galaxy that brightened and dimmed precisely as if a primordial black hole was passing in front of it.

Trailing Earth in an orbit around the sun, Kepler monitors the brightness of about 150,000 stars, looking for periodic dimming that might be caused by a planet passing in front of its star.

They were able to measure the slight decrease in brightness as the planet and its atmosphere absorbed some of the starlight while transiting (passing in front of) the host star.

This extra dip could have come from an even more minuscule moon passing in front of the star, giving New Horizons another place to point its cameras when it passes by in early 2019.

A research subject wearing a head - mounted display stands opposite the investigator, but instead of seeing what's in front of him, the subject sees video of the images passing in front of the investigator's eyes.

In this case, the sudden drop would be caused by the central part of the cloud passing in front of the star; the brightening before and afterwards could be explained by starlight being scattered in our direction by dust in the planetesimal cloud.

The French astronomers say that the sudden drop in brightness could be caused by a large planet passing in front of β Pictoris.

GJ 1214 b transits every 38 hours or so, passing in front of its host star and revealing itself by shading the star's light for about an hour.

And that historic light curve shows for the first time three temperate Earth - sized planets, two of them in the habitable zone, passing in front of their star at the same time!

They wrote the «most promising theory» was a barrage of crumbling comets passing in front of the star.

Of the thousands of planetary systems Kepler has discovered, about 80 per cent appear as single planets passing in front of their stars.

In 1783 the 19 - year - old amateur astronomer John Goodricke suggested in a communication to the Royal Society of London that the cause might be a darker body passing in front of the star.

The two bodies are aligned to form an eclipsing binary, with the red star periodically passing in front of the blue, blocking it from our view.

This graphic depicts HD 189733b, the first exoplanet caught passing in front of its parent star in X-rays.

Up to 80 per cent of the planetary systems Kepler has discovered appear as single planets passing in front of their stars.

For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.

The satellite looked for stars that exhibited subtle and regular dimming, which indicates that an orbiting planet is passing in front of, or transiting, that star.

A number of planet candidates are three to four times larger than Jupiter, which means that Kepler most likely detected double - star systems in which one star was passing in front of the other.