Sentences with phrase «percent of the sky»

Murdoch's Fox has agreed to buy the 61 percent of Sky it does not already own, but the deal has become bogged down in regulatory investigations.

Kepler covered just 0.28 percent of the sky.

Boyajian notes that Kepler examined less than 1 percent of the sky.

Kepler's field of view covers 100 square degrees, around 0.25 percent of the sky, or as Koch puts it, «about two scoops of the Big Dipper.»

Once in orbit, the spacecraft will trace an unusual, elliptical path between Earth and the moon that will enable it to observe at least 85 percent of the sky — 350 times as much sky as Kepler saw.

TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will look at 85 percent of the sky in the next two years and could find thousands of exoplanets.

The structure closely resembles what computer models predicted, but Van Waerbeke notes that the new map covers less than 0.4 percent of the sky.

GLAST's large - area telescope (LAT) monitors 20 percent of the sky at a given time.

Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

With a 13.7 - day orbits in each segment, TESS will cover 13 segments in the sky's Northern hemisphere and then move to scan 13 in the southern hemisphere, thus covering 85 percent of the sky.

So far, they have covered about 10 percent of the sky.

Building on the legacy of NASA's trail - blazing Kepler mission, which showed that exoplanets are commonplace, the $ 337 million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will study vastly more stars across 85 percent of the sky in a bid to pinpoint thousands of new planets with the emphasis on Earth - size or slightly larger.

«TESS will search 85 percent of our sky for exoplanets orbiting bright stars and our nearest stellar neighbors,» Martin Still, NASA headquarters program scientist for TESS, told Newsweek.

If everything goes according to plan, the observatory will conduct a two - year mission to survey more than 85 percent of the sky, searching for exoplanets around bright stars in the 300 - light - year distance range.

Not exact matches

Long Pond Capital's Khoury suggested that D.R. Horton has more than 60 percent upside, while Ran of Half Sky Capital said GrubHub could hit $ 160 a share, up about 55 percent from its Monday closing price of $ 102.17.

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.

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).

Sky rose 4.1 percent, making it one of the top performers in Europe, boosted by the news that Comcast, parent company of CNBC, and Verizon said they are interested in buying certain parts of 21st Century Fox.

Shares of both Comcast and Disney (which is also seeking ownership of Sky) fell Tuesday, down 7.3 percent and 4.9 percent respectively.

Proving that all work doesn't mean no play, trampoline park creators Sky Zone lands the no. 273 spot on this year's Inc. 5000, with 2014 revenue of $ 24.4 million and a three - year growth rate of 1,674 percent.

On average, a standard amount for businesses to give away falls between 1 and 2 percent of the gross profit, although there are those like Give Something Back that aim for the sky.

The Fox assets also bring significant international exposure, including its 39 percent ownership of U.K. - based Sky.

Along with a sky - high employment rate, Defy graduates have a recidivism rate of around 3.2 percent — a stark contrast to the staggering 76.6 percent of former prisoners who land back in jail within 5 years of their release.

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.

Elsewhere, broadcaster Sky reported an 11 percent drop in adjusted operating profit in the first nine months of its fiscal year, due to additional costs with the English Premier League and a weaker advertising market.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says his company's cash offer values each Sky share at 12.50 pounds, 16 percent higher than the 21st Century Fox offer of 10.75 pounds.

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.

The British government on June 30 already gave its qualified approval allowing News Corp. to purchase the 61 percent of British Sky Broadcasting that it doesn't already own, on the condition it spins off Sky News as a separate company.

Here's the bad news: Analysts are keeping earnings estimates for the rest of the year in sky - high, record territory, with nearly 20 percent growth in every quarter.

The joint filing by Disney and Fox, which outlines the timeline of their negotiations, offers the most detailed insight yet into Fox's thinking, as it goes head - to - head against Comcast, a U.S. cable operator, in its bid to acquire European pay - TV company Sky Plc (SKYB.L), in which Fox holds a 39 percent stake.

The Big Sky State has an overall cost of living that's higher than the national average — but only by 0.4 percent.

BT, whose shares have fallen nearly 40 percent in two years, is at the mercy of regulators and faces increasingly high costs as it battles to keep up with rivals such as Sky.

On Nov. 6, CNBC reported that Walt Disney had held talks with Fox about buying most of its movie and cable TV assets, and its 39 percent stake in European satellite broadcaster Sky.

Borrowers from Western Sky Financial also can apply for refunds on interest payments made above 24 percent per year from a $ 1.7 million account administered by Dahl Administration under the oversight of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.

Over the past decade, nearly 40 percent of all patent cases in the U.S. have been filed in Marshall and Tyler, Texas, two places known for their plaintiff - friendly decisions and sky - high court costs.

Even if you had sky - high loans and interest, the maximum you could save was $ 625 per year (assuming a tax rate of 25 percent).

Comcast's offer tops Twenty - First Century Fox's bid to buy the rest of Sky it doesn't own by about 16 percent.

If your a good Christian, Catholic, Mormon, or whatever, you will donate 10 percent of what you make and guarantee your mansion in the sky.

According to Half the Sky Movement, «putting money in the hands of women can have a positive long - term effect on the whole family... Women comprise 70 percent of the world's poorest people...

According to Half the Sky Movement, «putting money in the hands of women can have a positive long - term effect on the whole family... Women comprise 70 percent of the world's poorest people and own only 1 percent of the titled land.

«It has taken a lot of encouraging but Caroline's about 95 percent agreed to caddie for me in the Par - 3 Contest,» McIlroy told Sky Sports Sunday.

I've had enough of this crap, look I honesty do think giroud is a good striker and he is a fairly consistant goal scorer, and every time he played for arsenal he gave 100 percent and I think we all appreciated the way he was, a true professional, but to say we as fans were too critical of him or that he didn't have enough of a chance at arsenal is just absolute bullshit, first of all he has scored more headed goals than any other player in the prem since he arrived in 2012 so we did play to his strengths and he was our main striker for four long years and every pundit on sky and motd has at one point said Giroud is not enough for arsenal to win the title ect, but, now we have sold him he is apparently the best thing since sliced bread and the best buy of the transfer window blah blah fuc * # * g blah.

Kelly has a sky - high approval rating, with 66 percent of those polled stating they like the job he's doing, though there is a clear divide along race lines, with 78 of white voters saying they approve, versus just 51 percent of black voters.

Fox owns 39 percent of European TV giant Sky, and has long wanted to take over the whole company.

North America loses 6 percent of its dark skies every year — but you'd never know it at Jasper National Park Dark Sky Preserve's annual festival.

«If you take into account the positions of the pulsars in the sky, you basically have a 100 percent chance of detecting something in 10 years,» Mingarelli says.

Under those conditions, sky gazers typically miss about 60 percent of the incoming starlight, enough to wipe away the Milky Way.

At right, the rectangle depicts a cross-section of the night sky containing almost 120,000 galaxies, about 10 percent of the total survey.

«A site with sky brightness just 1 percent above natural zenith probably has much more skyglow near the horizon, because it is probably in a situation where it lies within the light dome of something else hundreds of kilometers away,» Duriscoe says.

During the May 20 eclipse, the moon covered as much as 94 percent of the sun, leaving a narrow «ring of fire» in the sky.