Sentences with phrase «smaller objects known»

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In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

Atomism (which goes all the way back to Democritus, who coined the term atom) assumes that physical reality consists of tiny indestructible parts or atoms, and that by analyzing an object into smaller and smaller parts one can learn all there is to know about it.

We all know that money is no object to Chelsea, especially when Roman Abramovich continues to financially support the club with his small change.

And I've been desensitized to poo, pee, vomit, watching my favorite / most expensive personal items destroyed, and know to keep random small objects out of reach.

A small, cozy «buddy», often known as a transitional object, is a great way to provide your baby with extra security around the time that they are ready to transition from being swaddled to sleeping with arms free.

That means lots of easy - to - handle snacks (like dry cereal, fig bars, or crackers), milk, water, plenty of diapers and wipes, a sweater in cool weather, two changes of clothes (in case of diaper blowouts, carsickness, or other spills), extra clothes for you (you never know when you'll become part of the mess), comfort objects (bear, blankie), and multiple diversions (such as board books, small toys, and finger puppets).

Whether the child has to put pieces together to form a greater object or fit smaller pieces into a puzzle of some sort, they are thinking and problem solving without even knowing it.

A tool exploited for its own sake is no better than a saw given to a small boy for cutting wood, who must presently look around the house for suitable objects of furniture inviting amputation...».

The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.

When dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered in March, it joined a handful of small, rocky objects known to reside past the orbit of Pluto.

Signs indicate that they, like the objects found by the same team earlier this year, are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies.

Currently known as 2014 MU69, the object might, in fact, be two rocks orbiting each other — and those rocks may themselves host a small moon.

In January 2019, it is scheduled to visit another, much smaller Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69.

Positive gravity has enough tantalising properties to keep us going for the moment — for instance, an object, no matter how small, generates gravity; it can't be shielded against; and it isn't lost when two masses collide under its force.

Astronomers kept finding more objects between Jupiter and Mars, though, all of them much smaller than Vesta and Ceres, and by the 1850s «planet» no longer seemed a reasonable term for all of them.

«We already know that premature newborns are capable of memorizing the shapes of small objects (prisms and cylinders), and of distinguishing them from each other starting from week 28 of amenorrhea.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — The solar system has gained a new extreme object: L91, a small, icy world with one of the longest known orbits, taking more than 20,000 years to go around the sun.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon, and may also provide clues to the formation of the planet's known moons.

«It has been known for decades that there is a mechanism in the retina in the eye that helps us see small objects and detect edges on bright days, and that this mechanism gradually turns off when it is dark.

Because sound waves have pressure, they can push very small objects, so a cell or nanoparticle will move with the sound wave until it reaches the location where there is no longer movement.

We know that such objects need to have a low - density environment without other large galaxies nearby that would disturb it, but they also need a supply of small but gas - rich «dwarf» galaxies to accrete and build the really large diffuse extended disk.

This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the spectacular region around an object known as Herbig - Haro 502, a very small part of the vast stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula.

Other solar system bodies that are possibly dwarf planets include Sedna and Quaoar, small worlds far beyond Pluto's orbit, and 2012 VP113, an object that is thought to have one of the most distant orbits found beyond the known edge of our solar system.

Those with a mass between 10 and 29 times that of our Sun tend to turn into a small, dense objects known as neutron stars.

«While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will... all of those were estimated to be smaller,» Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near - Earth Object Studies, said in a statement.

Using the known decay rates of various radioactive isotopes, he investigates the chronology of early processes on small planetary objects and studies the chemical and physical aspects of old and young crust - forming processes on Earth.

The nuclei of these galaxies change brightness every few weeks, so we know that the objects in the center must be relatively small (about the size of a solar system).

Those capabilities allow SST to see more, and smaller, objects than existing systems, like the network of optical telescopes known as the Ground - based Electro - Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS).

In the early seventeenth century, Galileo pioneered telescopic observations of the Sun, making some of the first known observations of sunspots and positing that they were on the surface of the Sun rather than small objects passing between the Earth and the Sun.

He his having trouble sleeping and waking in the middle of the night, he's very very irritated, getting his 5 year molars so some days is in pain, knows lots of words but can't communicate so is considered non verbal, is not potty trained, has regressed in many areas, refuses to listen to us and his teachers, very limited diet, adhd, stimming with his fingers on small objects to the point where he gets so hyper from it he breaks out into a sweat and within minutes will be soaked and getting him to focus on anything else is impossible.

Her parents are shocked to find out how little they know their daughter and fear becoming the object of gossip in their small community.

In the opening scene, the object in question, a small yet infinitely powerful bluish - white cube, single - handedly destroys a vast top - secret government laboratory known as the Dark Energy Division (which, before it imploded, must have been a cool place to say you worked.

We know these objects are a lot of things to store in a vehicle, especially a small sedan, but you'd be surprised at how much your car can hold.

The cognitive load with these objects is lower; I intuitively know where I am in the full book and can put a bookmark at the end of the chapter if I want to know how I am doing in smaller sections of the book.

Most dogs don't know how to balance on small objects right away — they barely know where their back feet are most of the time.

The object which is hidden while the dog is told to SIT, STAY should be a toy or glove or some other small article that bears a scent the dog knows well.

This, I believe, is where my cartoons work the best - «Cube Grenades» - small objects that you «throw» in there in order to cause some damage - to start a conversation, to spread an idea etc. [The Blue Monster] The Microsoft Blue Monster is probably my best - known Cube Grenade, which is why I made it into a limited edition print eventually.

Rachel MacFralane is known for her idiosyncratic process of creating small maquetes out of found objects arranged and lit as small - scale dioramas.

I don't know if it's more my studio school bias as I've seen so many of these full size figures being made here, but when I initially saw this smaller piece it felt like something uniquely personal, I felt something from that image, that object, the handling, the shapes.

Supplementing the established canon of German artists (Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix and George Grosz) and the rather smaller one of Allied artists (of whom the best known is the British painter and printmaker C.R.W. Nevinson), Farrell included an unusual selection of prints along with illustrated books and periodicals, posters, trade cards, photographs and textiles; even more unexpected in the context of the museum's prints and drawings galleries are the medals, trench lighters, helmets and gas masks — objects that provide a glimpse of the artifacts of war, which can not be divorced from its arts.

Vincent Fecteau is a San Francisco — based artist known for his small — scale, meticulously hand — assembled two — and three — dimensional objects.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

-LRB-...) Poignant narratives are hinted at by small objects scattered about the backside of the walls — ceramic replications of cigarette butts, bottle caps, toilet paper rolls and beer bottles seem remnants of lives that once inhabited the spaces that these walls no longer define» (Excerpt from Eleanor Heartney's essay, «Something there is that doesn't love a wall»).

Rauschenberg's exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery opened on May 14, 1951, and, as was standard for the time, remained on view for just three short weeks.36 The presentation consisted of thirteen easel - size oils in the smaller gallery while the larger main room featured works by Walter Tandy Murch, an artist known for his realistic depictions of mechanical objects and illustrations for such magazines as Forbes and Scientific American.

Best known for their public sculptures of mundane objects magnified to monumental scales, the artists also produced a variety of smaller objects, drawings, and the like over the course of their decades - long marriage and collaboration.

Best known for her large - scale, site - specific installations, Hamilton also creates small - scale objects and prints that continue her exploration into perception of the spaces of the body.

I feel that the time is ripe to mount an installation or cubby hole featuring small intimate portraits in my iconic make - up style of famous female courtesans and concubines from the Belle Epoch to Hollywood's Golden Era plus tiny sculptural art objects similar to my votive bread effigies of well endowed male hustlers, rent boys which of course will include some well known names of mainstream he - man box office stars and of the legendary art rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, «We all monkey down the street.»

I'm consistently drawn to situations where you sense that objects are detached from scale, where you can see a monumental piece, but you know it was made from a smaller piece.

He has been best known for sculptures and collages using everyday products in series such as «White Discharge,» 2002 — , quasi-architectural constructions assembling action figures, plastic food models, and other inexpensive small objects, covered with white - painted resin, or «Sea

A recent exhibition of her text - based work at Participant in Chelsea, scheduled to coincide with the publication of her novel «Double Standard,» revealed a no less challenging aspect of her art, and one that is further explored at Schroeder Romero in a small display of the artists's notebooks and sculptural objects.