Sentences with phrase «picture of the sky»

Models also can produce extremely realistic pictures of the sky, which is essential when planning large observational campaigns, such as those by DESI and LSST.

After all that, you'd have one picture of the sky on a piece of glass.

Keck took its first picture of the sky on 24 November 1990, but the instrument was far from complete, with just 9 of its 36 mirror segments installed.

And they're integrating it into a unified picture of the sky and our universe.

Not exact matches

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

We thus find the typical ancient picture of a domed canopy over the sky, supported by pillars, with a flat earth below floating on a watery abyss, with sun, moon and stars moving in the heavens relative to the earth, and with the world axis intersecting the sacred center of one's nation.

Large amounts of phosphorus could be from the moon impacting (moon surface = KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, phosphorus)-RRB- Even in their picture showing meteorites landing on molten surface (lol) shows a glowing molten moon — they ignore the big blob in the sky and say «meteorites» instead of «ejecta» — they should be put up against a wall and shot with silly string and cast out into the outer darkness of unemployment to wail and gnash their rotting teeth.

In discussing this, he describes the technique using a mental picture that induces calm, silence, and peace — a tranquil lake mirroring the blue sky, or the starry sky in the silence of the night.

A recent survey showed that the majority of people questioned pictured God as «an old man with a long white beard up in the sky.»

All of us have some mental picture into which we fit the particular bit of the earth's surface on which we live, and the starry sky we see at night.

There you will find in the end the same general picture of the universe which the Hebrews held, but their fellow Semites in Babylonia got at it by having the god, Marduk, slit his enemy, Tiamat, in two, like a flat fish, and then use the upper half to make the sky and the lower half to make the earth.

In that kind of cosmos a poem about the sun's standing still can come to be taken as literal fact; Elijah can be carried up from earth to heaven in a chariot of fire; Jesus can be pictured as ascending from the earth to the sky by physical levitation, and his second coming can be pictured as a physical return from the firmament to earth.

Lately, I've been picturing green hills and blue skies filled with that kind of dusty sunshine I rarely get the opportunity to see — that kind of California weather that seems so elusive and spectacular.

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So... I'll just look at these pictures for now, and pray that something falls out of the sky.

The 19 - year - old was awarded the man of the match award by Sky Sports after the game and they shared a picture confirming that he won the prize on the official club twitter account alongside information about his match stats.

She uploaded the below picture of herself wearing sky blue pyjamas to Instagram on Friday night.

Fresh from the training ground comes a picture of David Beckham wearing the famous old lillywhite shirt sky blue tracksuit.

On a day which sharply switched from sunny skies to swirling gusts around the Bedford International Athletics Stadium, Turner (pictured above, 1009) capitalised on the best of the morning conditions to pull out a 57.50 and chop 0.53 off the European champion's time from 2008.

I never again had to leave him in that crib covered in chipped, sky - blue paint, with a picture of Scott and me taped to its rails.

Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing in to the night sky, paints a much clearer picture than anything you can read from an exercise book.

This name means dawning, painting a glorious picture in one's mind's eye of the sun peaking up over the rolling Italian landscape, a pink lemonade sky dotted with fluffy cotton clouds as it's backdrop.

K is for kite, flying high in the sky... Babies love to see pictures of kites flying and dancing in the sky.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), launched in 2000, heralded the modern age of big - picture astronomy.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

But in March, the European Space Agency announced that its orbiting Planck telescope had taken the temperature of 50 million tiny patches of sky, creating the highest - resolution baby picture of the whole universe ever taken, and allowing astronomers to better understand the first moments after the Big Bang.

The region of sky pictured is listed in the Sharpless catalogue of H II regions: interstellar clouds of ionised gas, rife with star formation.

Editor's Note: If you snap an amazing picture of the lunar eclipse Saturday or any other night sky view that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, send photos, comments, and your name and location to managing editor Tariq Malik at [email protected].

But even folks who can't tell a picture - postcard blue sky from its milky, geoengineered cousin might be able to detect other side effects of using sulfate to cool the planet.

«As the LAT builds up an increasingly detailed picture of the gamma - ray sky, it simultaneously reveals how dynamic the universe is at these energies,» said Peter Michelson, the instrument's principal investigator and a professor of physics at Stanford University in California.

For example, you could train a neural network to identify sky in a photograph by showing it hundreds of pictures with the sky labeled.

The same technology that's in your digital camera has led to people like me being able to take pictures of wide swaths of the sky at a time.

With the new recognition, he notes, Sark will likely see a boost in tourism, especially among amateur astronomers who might visit to take advantage of the island's crisp, clear skies during winter months, perhaps to catch a spectacular view of the Milky Way (main picture).

By studying the statistical distribution of larger and smaller swirls on the sky, they may be able to piece together a detailed picture of the energy and density distribution in the primordial universe.

The map (pictured) is built up from 95 hours of observations and was made with an instrument called the Large Area Telescope, which can scan the entire sky once every 3 hours.

The co-leader of the study, Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh in the UK adds: «Unravelling what has happened since the Big Bang is a complex challenge, but by continuing to study the distant skies, we can build a picture of how our modern Universe has evolved.»

Gray had worked for 10 years with Hopkins scientists to implement the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a massive, computer - driven effort to piece together a picture of space one snapshot at a time.

Ground - based cameras called all - sky cameras, run by the University of Calgary and University of California, Berkeley, took pictures of large areas of the sky and captured Steve and the auroral display far to the north.

Instead of rendering a static picture like other such maps, LSST will capture the sky in motion, a kind of time - lapse cinematography of the cosmos.

LSST would solve the problem by taking several thousand pictures of the same area of sky.

The computers merge the data to produce a high - resolution picture of a 10 - degree patch of sky centered near the North Star.

The picture obtained by joining the horizons of the two all - sky images was the Astronomy Picture of the Day on July 30, 2011 (A Tale of Two Hemisppicture obtained by joining the horizons of the two all - sky images was the Astronomy Picture of the Day on July 30, 2011 (A Tale of Two HemispPicture of the Day on July 30, 2011 (A Tale of Two Hemispheres).

To get a better picture of the newfound world, astronomers would need a complementary observation, such as watching a partial eclipse (known as a transit) as the planet passes in front of its star, or making a precision measurement of the star's side - to - side motion in the sky.

In addition, stars with surface temperatures of 3,300 kelvins or lower (red dwarfs of spectral type M2.5 such as Gliese 581, or redder) would emit so fewer photons towards the bluish wavelengths compared to Sol that the sky would appear whitish down to reddish to Human eyes (more from Earth Science Picture of the Day).

Almost everything about Jansson's current surroundings is big and bold: the 600 acres of sycamore - studded PNNL campus rolling across eastern Washington, the endless blue sky she can see through her picture window, the fridge - size gene sequencing machine where her team deposits soil samples.

(See Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Alpha Centauri AB from WikiSky.org, and and at Astronomy Picture of the Day.)

To find moving objects against a background of stars, astronomers take two or more pictures of the same patch of sky at different times.

When you see a picture of a comet in the sky, you're generally seeing a glowing ball followed by an ethereal - looking trail of gas.

I nearly froze taking those pictures yesterday and wouldn't ya know, the sky is clear blue and full of sunshine today!