Sentences with phrase «sky object after»

Today, Sirius can be seen almost worldwide as the brightest star in the sky — excluding the sun — and the fourth brightest night - sky object after the moon, Venus and Jupiter.

Not exact matches

Folks in New Zealand were in a panic after an object fell from the sky and into the Pacific Ocean.

Brown subsequently named this enigmatic object Sagittarius A * (pronounced «A star»), after the constellation where it appears in the sky.

Jupiter is usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus); however at times Mars appears brighter than Jupiter.

Soon after the initial observations of the merger site, the Earth's annual trip around the Sun placed the object too close to the Sun in the sky for X-ray and visible - light telescopes to observe.

But only six decades after Sputnik's launch into pristine skies, the orbit around Earth is now filled with nearly 18,000 objects tracked by the United States Strategic Command.

TESS will sweep the southern sky first and then, after a year, turn its attention to northern stars; all told, it will observe at least 30 million celestial objects.

The night's three brightest objects form a triangle low in the sky just after sunset.

And if you enjoy quests for objects in the night sky, after that you might jet to «My Life as a Comet Hunter,» where David H. Levy describes a «cosmic passion» that's lasted for the past 50 years.

It will remain, after Venus, the second - brightest object in the sky through early summer.

Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona discovered the object with the Spacewatch telescope a few hours after its close encounter, when it was 700 000 kilometres away and moving rapidly across the sky.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

Lowell started a program using a dedicated camera that would take images of the sky night after night; someone would then painstakingly compare the images to look for moving objects.

On his way home after work one day an object falls from the sky and lands on his head knocking him unconscious.

In addition, this scope has an electronic GPS database that is preloaded with almost 40,000 celestial objects, and after you calibrate this model, it can scan the skies for you.

Set in 1957, the film follows Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal), a young boy who ventures into the woods near his house after seeing an object fall from the sky.