Sentences with phrase «points of light nearby»

Not exact matches

Astronomers working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used a 2.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to map the location of more than 930,000 nearby galaxies, determining the distance to each by how much the expansion of the universe has stretched, or «redshifted,» the wavelength of the galaxy's light.

A simple point of light could be a dim nearby star or a brilliant one thousands of light - years away.

UPDATE, 9/9: In a comment below, Andrew Light of Center for American Progress points out that the Nobel Peace Prize committee could well have tipped the scales toward Mr. Obama going to the talks by giving him the excuse of being nearby for his prize ceremony.]