Sentences with phrase «small area of sky»

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Dr Sergey Koposov of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, the study's lead author.

The small area of sky imaged, seemingly devoid of light, provides a «keyhole» view of the universe's past; reaching across space and time to reveal infant galaxies.

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» Sergey Koposov from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy and the study's lead author, said, in a statement.

v «[The] data are notoriously noisy, and the purported effect looks remarkably like an instrumental glitch: it appears only in one small area of the sky and on an angular scale close to the limit of the satellite's resolution.»

data are notoriously noisy, and the purported effect looks remarkably like an instrumental glitch: it appears only in one small area of the sky and on an angular scale close to the limit of the satellite's resolution.»

Instead of conducting a narrow and deep study of a small area of the sky, the team broadened their scope to produce the widest survey of very distant galaxies ever attempted.

The astronomers used the VLA and ALMA to study galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a small area of sky observed since 2003 with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Rather than looking at distant stars in a small area of sky, like Kepler did, TESS will look at closer stars over 85 per cent of the sky.

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy's Sergey Koposov, the Cambridge study's lead author.

Deep - field surveys are intended to look at faint galaxies; they point at small areas of the sky for a longer period of time, meaning the total volume of space being sampled is relatively small.

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Its ornate artwork of a beautiful night sky and a «tot area» with smaller toilets for little ones earned the Field Museum in Chicago the top spot in 2011.

The Andromeda Galaxy is easily visible to the naked eye in a moderately dark sky, though such a sky is available only in smaller towns and isolated areas reasonably far from population centers and sources of light pollution.

The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.

That's a big chunk of sky — the full moon covers only 0.2 square degrees — but it's an area 10 times smaller than what could have been determined with the LIGO detectors alone.

IN 1908, a small asteroid exploded in the sky above Siberia, flattening a vast area of remote forest.

At first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - years.

A mysterious cold spot lurked in the southern sky; fluctuations between large areas of the sky were even smaller than expected; and fluctuations at some scales seemed to align along a preferred direction, forming what has been dubbed an «axis of evil».

In 2009, NASA launched its Kepler probe to keep a close watch on a small section of the sky — the idea was to learn more about a smaller area than less about a larger one.

14 The Hubble Space Telescope, searching for evolving galaxies in December 1995, focused for 10 continuous days on a tiny patch of sky, so small when viewed from Earth that a grain of sand held at arm's length would cover that area.

The actual sizes of these orbits on the sky are very small (about one billionth the area covered by an «x»), but the orbit sizes shown in the animation are accurate relative to each other.

Though the field is a very small sample of sky area it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space because the universe, statistically, looks the same in all directions.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

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Only a small portion of the water was open to the sky above, before you had to enter a partially eroded cave - like area with a low overhanging limestone rock ceiling.

Despite being the fourth - largest state in the country in terms of area, Montana, which is also known as Big Sky Country, has a very small population.

A small skylight above the seating area in this indoor porch welcomes views of the sky.