Sentences with phrase «tenth of a light year»

The closest average approach of stars in the spiral arms during such a collision will be about a tenth of a light year.

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Although enormous on a human scale, the LMC contains less than one tenth of the mass of the Milky Way, and spans just 14 000 light - years — by contrast, the Milky Way covers some 100 000 light - years.

The team located the FRB about 100,000 times more precisely than previous attempts with individual telescopes, letting them unambiguously associate it with a dwarf galaxy about a tenth of the diameter of the Milky Way, more than 2.5 billion light years away (Nature, doi.org/bwss).

It's believed to be making its first trip to the inner solar system from the Oort Cloud — a vast, roughly spherical storehouse of trillions of frozen cometary nuclei — that lies more than a tenth of a light - year from the Sun.

They estimate its current size to be about one - tenth of a light - year, or 170 times the distance between the sun and Pluto.

Here are some of the most charming and unique 1st year anniversary gifts for a presents is dedicating a day first anniversary Whether it's your first or your tenth year together, nothing gets a romantic evening started quite like the flicker of a freshly lit candle.

It's like daydreaming, like that second just before you fall asleep, but for hours, they said, for the whole of eighth grade, their eyes glazed with the shine of the newly converted, and by tenth grade they gave up and now, start of junior year, it was habit to make fun of him every time there was occasion, every time they circled up to light and puff and smoke, these friends.

Figure 1: Spatial distribution of multi-year ice (in tenths) within the Western Parry Channel region of the Northwest Passage on May 1st for a heavy ice year (2004), a light year ice (1999) and the last three years.