Sentences with phrase «slice of sky»

More interestingly still, whereas once the art was imported to decorate the dwelling, now the architecture is often built around the art — think of the Rothko Chapel in Houston designed by Philip Johnson or the various structures James Turrell builds to frame a slice of sky.

Since the Kepler mission began in 2009, a total of 4,034 candidates and 2,335 confirmed planets have been spotted in the small slice of the sky the telescope observes, which is centered on the Cygnus constellation.

Since the clouds he's using for reference are moving pretty quickly in the wind, he hurriedly trains his telescope on the slice of sky between the building and a white pine tree.

The telescope will also hunt these planets over a wider slice of sky than before.

Inside a dim laboratory at Oregon State University, a glass tank full of living corals glows like a slice of sky during the grand finale of a fireworks display.

Thanks to about a thousand hours of observation by the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have compiled a dark matter map of a tiny slice of the sky, about two square degrees of the entire sky's 40,000 - square - degree span.

There the radio signals will excite electrons and turn them into waves of relatively hot ionized gas, or plasma, in a narrow slice of sky.

They and their students took thousands of spectra of galaxies along thin pie - shaped slices of the sky over 15 years to produce the map with 2 slices extending out about 400 million light years shown below.

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In what could be the most delicious marketing stunt of all time — dubbed «Pie in the Sky» — the airline is traveling cross-country to deliver Los Angeles - dwellers authentic New York - style slices courtesy of the...

I'm savoring a slice of this cake / bread hybrid as I go between typing and glaring out at the menacing gray sky.

I've had enough of this crap, look I honesty do think giroud is a good striker and he is a fairly consistant goal scorer, and every time he played for arsenal he gave 100 percent and I think we all appreciated the way he was, a true professional, but to say we as fans were too critical of him or that he didn't have enough of a chance at arsenal is just absolute bullshit, first of all he has scored more headed goals than any other player in the prem since he arrived in 2012 so we did play to his strengths and he was our main striker for four long years and every pundit on sky and motd has at one point said Giroud is not enough for arsenal to win the title ect, but, now we have sold him he is apparently the best thing since sliced bread and the best buy of the transfer window blah blah fuc * # * g blah.

For most of its mission, Kepler stared at a deep but narrow slice of the Universe — peering out some 920 parsecs (3,000 light years) from Earth but covering only 0.25 % of the sky.

Each number — the morning hours of 8 through 12 and the afternoon hours of 1 through 5 (typical daylight hours)-- is cut into dozens of tiny vertical slices and interwoven in such a way that at any one time only a single number's stripes are illuminated by the sun as it crosses the sky.

In 2003, the Anglo - Australian Observatory released a much larger survey («2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey») of over 221,000 galaxies in two slices that extend over 1.5 billion light years in a two - degree field of the sky.

This is one slice through the map of the large - scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.

We don't want dating to confuse you; the process of finding someone should be as a clear as an arrow slicing through the sky.

Apart from the odd whiff of a BBQ the air is fresh and the sky dotted with clusters of colourful parachutes from paragliders enjoying their own slice of this natural paradise.

It's a private slice of heaven immersed in fragrant juniper and topped by a clear blue sky.

As Link, you must travel across the lands of Hyrule and soar through the sky, slicing each enemy with precision.

The consecutive run of truly impeccable dungeons in the game's second half containing the Snowpeak Ruins, the Temple of Time and then the Castle in the Sky should have been a slice of gaming nirvana, but instead feels needlessly padded out.

Similarly, in Inspired Bright (2017 - 18), there's a very strange way the composition vacillates between representation and abstraction — something like a waking dream — as that distinct slice of blue sky and clouds in the top right quickly makes way to transitions in space that are rapid and unpredictable.

For example, New York Seen from the Terrace (1937), gives us an inspiringly panoramic view of the city, but instead of the usual gray, the skyline is imbued with patches of vivid red against a pea - green sky, and two luscious - looking watermelon slices lie on a table in the foreground.

There is no single time to view this work, as each variation provides something new: at night the distant lights refract to create a universe of stars; on a tranquil afternoon the sky is transformed into banks of blue fragmented by slices of clouds.

Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.

That's the very thin slice of the public, who believe that the sky is falling.

I had reached the view that the realists» story was in fact a fantasy, and it seemed to me that by signing I would be downplaying the science (and the Authority's own earlier work) in exchange for a big slice of pie in the sky.

Super-rich buyers from home and abroad have sent demand and prices sky - rocketing as they vie for a slice of London's (limited) luxury property market.