Sentences with phrase «precise observation»

However, as it drew closer, more precise observations showed that it would only come within a cosmic hair's breadth.

His relentless travel provides opportunities for precise observation and reflection on human culture — what can be seen and described, and what can be felt.

More precise observations should become possible as their 80 - year orbit carries them farther apart.

The Louisiana LIGO facility relied on precise observations of lengthy laser beams to detect gravitational waves.

This is the universe Salman Habib is trying to reconstruct, structure by structure, using precise observations from telescope surveys combined with next - generation data analysis and simulation techniques currently being primed for exascale computing.

The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a continent - wide radio - telescope system, along with the 100 - meter radio telescope in Effelsberg, Germany, to make an extremely precise observation when the planet Jupiter passed nearly in front of a bright quasar on September 8, 2002.

New and very precise observations using the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6 - metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have now not only detected the motion of the spots due to the rotation of Ceres about its axis, but also found unexpected additional variations suggesting that the material of the spots is volatile and evaporates in sunlight.

I do think AGW would have been right up his alley had he lived another 10 - 20 years, but his revival on the Kuwait fires indicates that eventually he'd be capable of recognizing that «the most precise observations» demolish his «dearest illusions».

According to the popular stereotype, the scientist makes precise observations and then employs logical reasoning; if such a procedure is to be adopted in all fields of enquiry, should not religion be dismissed as prescientific superstition?

They taught us our method of knowing: careful, mathematically precise observation, step - by - step inference and generalization, and systematic, evidence - based theory building.

Suspicions that Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harbors an internal ocean — one that could host life — have hardened into near certainty with exquisitely precise observations from the Cassini spacecraft.

This project will take advantage of Webb's high - resolution spectrographs to get the most sensitive and precise observations at wavelengths that specifically measure ices.

Precise observations showed the stars to be moving apart, making the triangle bigger but maintaining its form.

The latest precise observations can detect no difference in size, mass and brightness between HIP 56948 and the sun, and it is only about 17 °C warmer (while 18 Scorpii is 54 °C warmer).

Mark acclaims the unaffected naturalism and precise observation of Pablo Giorgelli's pitch - perfect road movie, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Caméra d'Or prize.

Specialized modifications to the plane allow the smooth ride needed for precise observations.

Advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology offer the potential for extremely precise observation, collection and even alteration of human brain activity.

From Carl Sagan's magnificent Cosmos episode, «Harmony of the Worlds», about Johannes Kepler, he says of Kepler: «When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts.

This occupies space; it has a very complex physical structure which usually serves us well but sometimes gets out of order and eventually dies; it is subject both in health and disease to precise observation and measurement and a good deal of control.

Over the centuries, more precise observations and improved theories of gravity led to Copernicus» heliocentric model and the Newtonian model of the Solar System, respectively.

Using Brahe's precise observations of the planet Mars, Kepler spent the next five years developing his own method for characterizing planetary motion.

Cole's relentless travel provides opportunities for precise observation and reflection on human culture; what can be seen and described, and what can be felt.

It's all delightful but not strictly necessary, because the best of the illustrations have it all: the adventurous synthesis of scientific and aesthetic wonder, the precise observation and detail, and the slightly bitter aftertaste of cheerfully obtuse latter - day colonialism.

While delving into one of the most primordial and complex systems of communication, that of clothing, Huanca conveys distinctive and precise observations on the function of the garment, as an ever evolving manner of language production and a traditional form of cultural transmission.

The studied and precise observations, which provide the foundation to the artist's work, are countered with impulsive or wilful gesture, the haze of memory and nostalgia is overlaid with bursts of harsh clarity.