Sentences with phrase «sky object on»

If you've never found a deep - sky object on your own before, M4 is a grand place to start.

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Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

Puzzled pilots of different airlines think they saw an unusual object in the skies on Feb. 24.

What I object to is when Christians try to tell non-believers what they must (as opposed to «should») do on these or any other issue, based on their primitive sky supersti.tion.

This survey, called the «Hubble Ultra Deep Field,» (in 1995 and 1998) was targeted on a region of the sky that was nearly devoid of known objects, so as to be (hopefully) representative of conditions in the distant Universe.

On another occasion, a good friend told me about regularly seeing unusual objects in the sky of the remote area where he lived.

Acts 11:4 - 18: «But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying, «I WAS IN THE CITY OF JOPPA PRAYING; AND IN A TRANCE I SAW A VISION, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me, and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four - footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air.

Thus: «Hence the idea of the sun will be the sun itself existing in the mind, not indeed formally, as it exists in the sky, but objectively, i.e., in the way in which objects are wont to exist in the mind; and this mode of being is truly much less perfect than that in which things exist outside the mind, but it is not on that account mere nothing, as I have already said.»

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

Designed primarily for celestial viewing, this product is equally comfortable scanning the night sky as it is looking at objects here on Earth.

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Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

Roy Tucker, David Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi spotted the object while trolling the skies at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory on Kitt Peak.

We train our telescopes on small patches of sky for long spells, trying to drink in as much faint light from distant objects as possible.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

We tend to think that objects in the sky have always been the way we view them, but in this case the face that is so familiar to us — the Man on the Moon — changed,» said Siegler, who also is a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz..

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

Galileo's work wasn't all staring at the sky, either: His studies of falling bodies showed that objects dropped at the same time will hit the ground at the same time, barring air resistance — gravity doesn't depend on their size.

According to a report in the newsletter of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, a 3 - kilogram metallic object fell from the sky on the village of Ede, the Netherlands, on 4 March, piercing the ceiling of a post office.

Taken together, these findings explain why visual acuity is commonly measured with dark characters on light backgrounds and why visual resolution is lower for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the dark sky.

This general approach of blending the input from dispersed telescopes, called interferometry, offers the potential for vastly enhanced angular resolution — the ability to identify distinct features of an object that are spaced close together on the sky.

Second, it does not just capture sky images; it also gauges the distance to many of the objects — a million galaxies and 100,000 quasars so far — that pass through its field of view, providing a unique three - dimensional perspective on deep space.

For the first time in history, humans knew the stars not just as points on a sky chart but as objects with defined locations in three - dimensional space.

Brown and Batygin were especially struck by the orbits of six of the most extreme objects in the Kuiper Belt (the population of outer objects that includes both Pluto and Eris), all of which cluster on one side of the sky.

Marla Geha of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, and Joshua Simon of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena focused on eight candidate objects that had already been located by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of the sSky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of the skysky.

Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky on a scale of apparent magnitude — the brighter the object, the greater the negative number; the dimmer, the greater the positive number.

The Zwicky Transient Facility, a robotic camera designed to rapidly scan the sky nightly for objects that move, flash or explode, took its first image on November 1.

The oldest object known to humans fell from the sky on Feb. 8, 1969, with the furor of a divine omen.

The crumbling asteroid, designated P / 2013 R3, was first noticed as an unusual, fuzzy - looking object on 15 September 2013 by the Catalina and Pan-STARRS sky surveys.

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.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

Laser - zapping of a globular, golf - ball - size object on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron - nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky.

A recent analysis based on a sky mapping project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, which discovered more than 800 new «trans - Neptunian objects,» suggests that the evidence also could be consistent with a random distribution of such objects.

Scientists often rely on backyard astronomers to patrol the skies for newly appearing pinpoints that are brighter and clearer than the objects around them.

«NIRES is expected to be one of the most efficient single - object, near - infrared spectrographs on an eight to ten - meter telescope, designed to study explosive, deep sky phenomena such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts, a capability that is in high demand.»

Now that Kepler is exploring other patches of sky in its current mission, called K2, it can no longer follow up on Tabby's Star, but future telescopes may help unveil more secrets of this mysterious object.

From anyplace on Earth, the clearest thing in the night sky is usually the moon, Earth's only natural satellite and the nearest celestial object (240,250 miles or 384,400 km away).

On August 18, 2008, a team of astronomers (Andrew Becker, Nathan A. Kaib, David Weinberg, and Jordan Raddick) working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced their discovery of another inner Oort Cloud object designated as 2006 SQ372.

In his DESI - related research, Meisner helps to ensure that the WISE images are useful for selecting sky objects that DESI can fix on when it begins operating in 2019.

M11 should be on everyone's list of favourite deep sky objects.

New information provided by a worldwide network of sensors has allowed scientists to refine their estimates for the size of the object that entered the atmosphere and disintegrated in the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, at 7:20:26 p.m. PST, or 10:20:26 p.m. EST on Feb. 14 (3:20:26 UTC on Feb. 15).

William Herschel, who first observed the object on August 6, 1780, believed the Great Andromeda Nebula to be the nearest of all the «great nebulae» in the night sky.

Here, in South America we could enjoy the setting sun, with clouds, finally designed in Voxel that will make them appear as physical and real objects in 3D, abandoning those artwork spread on the sky.

Through hands - on activities, students will understand how these objects in the sky affect life on earth.

Terrible objects were falling from the sky, objects that looked like they should bounce on impact, but instead exploded.

The 3D on the other hand is rather unassuming, although it's still very noticeable — objects, areas and the sky stretch off into the distance, and leaves, confetti and debris from your motor come flying towards the screen.

The multiplayer mode takes the familiar concept of staying on top of a pile of increasingly absurd objects that are falling from the sky without letting too many of them bonk you on the head and end your game, but since you're playing with multiple people at the same time, you're also trying to sabotage those other players while keeping yourself safe.

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The works on display are: Non Object (Spire)(stainless steel, 302 x 300 x 300 cm); Sky Mirror (270 cm diameter, 2009); Sky Mirror (10m diameter, 2006); C - Curve (220 x 770 x 300 cm, 2007).

Where sculptures are placed in relation to one another, whether or not they stand on a plinth or pedestal, and how they interact with the walls, ground, and ceiling or sky complicate and enhance the experience and meaning of her individual objects.