Sentences with phrase «thirds of a light year»

The most recent Hubble observations show that the physical shockwave from the giant blast is just now reaching the innermost of three mysterious gas rings circling the dead star at a distance of two - thirds of a light year.

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Globalization in particular generates a strong desire for identification: Imagine 300 million entrepreneurs trying to launch 150 million new businesses every year of which only one third will see the light of day.

Atomico, the 11 - year - old European venture firm, has released the third edition of its State of European Tech report in an effort to shine a light on what's happening in Europe, and it's fu

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

Under California's «Shine the Light» law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information Accolade Wines has shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses and the identities of those third parties, subject to certain exceptions.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

For more than 25 years, LEDsthe most efficient lights yet producedwere like a third of a rainbow.

Given the redshift of the light from this stellar explosion — which occurred about 10 billion years ago, when the universe was one third its current size — the object appeared much brighter than it would have been if [dust filling intergalactic space simply made the supernovae appear dim, as some researchers had proposed].

Gliese 876 is a modest star, just one - third the mass of our sun and only 15 light - years away, but it has a history - making planetary system all its own.

Just over one third of the mass of the Sun, it is part of a triple star system known as Gliese 667 (also referred to as GJ 667), 22 light - years away in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).

That's why Falcke and his colleagues rushed to the Effelsberg radio observatory near Bonn, Germany, last April when two x-ray spacecraft hinted at the presence of a pulsar only a third of a light - year from Sgr A *.

But the chirp from January 4, dubbed «GW170104,» is actually LIGO's third and farthest - reaching detection of gravitational waves, coming from somewhere about 3 billion light - years away.

Just as water from the middle third of the contiguous United States flows toward the Mississippi River, Tully found that galaxies across about 500 million light - years of space flow toward a previously discovered enormous and dense region known as the Great Attractor because of its powerful gravitational pull.

Signs of any dispersion should have been obvious in LIGO's third event, GW170104, because its gravitational waves traveled across three billion light - years, rather than the one billion of LIGO's previous two events.

For example, if it takes 20 years to travel 10 light - years to the next star system with a laser - sail system, and then another 10 years to settle it and build new lasers and seed probes there, the settled region will be a sphere growing in all directions at a third of the speed of light on average.

In fact, when Chris Burrows of the European Space Agency did a detailed inspection of the Hubble images, he located a dim object that could be the source of the beams at the predicted location — about one - third light - year from the center of the supernova explosion.

The two binary stars A and B revolve around their common centre of mass in a relatively close orbit, while the third star, Proxima Centauri, is 0.22 light years away, more than 12,500 times the distance between the Sun and Earth.

In March of 2013, Luhman's analysis of the images from WISE uncovered a pair of much warmer brown dwarfs at a distance of 6.5 light years, making that system the third closest to the Sun.

Because the star is so far away and its light takes nine billion years to reach Earth, the star looks as it did when the universe was less than a third of its current age which is much earlier than ever before.

It spans an angle equal to about one third the diameter of the Full Moon, corresponding to about 15 light - years at the distance of the Omega Nebula.

This year saw the third annual Summer of Arcade promotion with titles such as Limbo, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Castlevania Harmony of Despair, Monday Night Combat and Lara Croft: Guardian of Light.

The film sets up for an intended third movie, which, given the lucrative success of African - American films of late at the box office, will likely be green - lit long before another 14 years pass.

With a performance from Jaeden Lieberher, a Philadelphia - born thirteen - year - old in the role of eight - year - old Alton Meyer, this intellectual addition to the sci - fi genre may be too slow for the «Transformers» crowd but more in line with those who go for pictures like «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» and even «E.T.» Much of Adam Stone's lensing is in the dark because the kid is sensitive to light and David Wingo's happily non-intrusive music, «Midnight Special» will probably get theatergoers to emphasize either its special role or, less happily its midnight downer.

Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor - sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.

Deaths from belted passengers behind the second row — a group that includes third - and, if equipped, fourth - row passengers — comprised just 1.2 percent of belted light - truck occupant deaths in 2009, according to the most recent year of NHTSA data.

Total Honda Division sales are up 4.5 percent through the end of November to 1,333,253 Honda cars and light trucks, as the brand prepares to post a third straight year of record sales.

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The 2017 model year begins the third generation of the LaCrosse, featuring a lighter platform and more European - ish styling.

It was in that same third or fourth year of my life that I first dreamt about that underground town full of multicolored lights.

For the third year in a row, Matthias Matting (founder of selfpublishingbibel.de, Germany's go - to source of information about self - publishing) and Hilke - Gesa Bußmann have conducted a poll among German indie authors to shed a light on the current state of self - publishing in Germany.

The current US recovery, which is now tied for the third - longest on record, has also been the weakest economic expansion since World War II, with an average annual growth rate of just 2 % over an 8 - year period.5 It may not take much to derail such tepid growth, particularly in light of continued high expectations.

Most plans allow you to contribute up to 15 percent of your salary and I was nowhere near that until my third year when a light went off and I realized what a great deal it was.

This year we are celebrating the season of giving with our third annual «Holiday Lights for the Animals» celebration.

Some featured third - party games on the way for the rest of the year include Super Scribblenauts from Warner Bros. in October, FINAL FANTASY ® THE 4 HEROES OF LIGHT from Square Enix, Inc. on Oct. 5 and Rock Band ™ 3 from Electronic Arts / MTV on Oct. 2of the year include Super Scribblenauts from Warner Bros. in October, FINAL FANTASY ® THE 4 HEROES OF LIGHT from Square Enix, Inc. on Oct. 5 and Rock Band ™ 3 from Electronic Arts / MTV on Oct. 2OF LIGHT from Square Enix, Inc. on Oct. 5 and Rock Band ™ 3 from Electronic Arts / MTV on Oct. 29.

Gears Of War wasn't always the machismo, testosterone - fuelled third - person shooter that came to define the early life of the Xbox 360; it actually rose from the ashes of an unfinished Unreal game that had been in the works five years before Gears would see the light of daOf War wasn't always the machismo, testosterone - fuelled third - person shooter that came to define the early life of the Xbox 360; it actually rose from the ashes of an unfinished Unreal game that had been in the works five years before Gears would see the light of daof the Xbox 360; it actually rose from the ashes of an unfinished Unreal game that had been in the works five years before Gears would see the light of daof an unfinished Unreal game that had been in the works five years before Gears would see the light of daof day.

Lighter and breezier than traditional emo Square Enix fare, it's also an excellent lesson in business: it reused assets from FFX and took one year to develop with just a third of the original team — and yet still sold four million copies with a Metacritic rating of 85.

«Once we deliver everything we want [for Dying Light], probably by the — I don't know — end of the third quarter this year, we will then maybe start to send some new [Hellraid] materials or informations or thinking about what's the release date, something like that.

If the story of DICE's Battlefront is a one of a young upstart torn between the forces of dark and light then this, coming after the series found itself corrupted and besieged late last year, should be the third act that offers some kind of redemption.

It's been a big year for publisher Warner Bros, with titles like Mortal Kombat X, Dying Light, and Batman: Arkham Knight helping them become the # 1 third - party publisher in the US for the first half of 2015, with MKX # 1 overall in the US during that time.

One thing I'll be focused on this year is the lack of any lighting, or electricity for that matter, for about a third of the world's population.

The last time I felt this light and excited about my schooling was during my third year of undergrad when I went on exchange to Spain to complete my major in Hispanic Literature.

Again, the shipments for this new display are expected to begin later this year, which would line up with initial rumors suggesting the Apple Watch Series 3 could see the light of day sometime in the third quarter of this year.

On the cutting edge of dedicated gaming PC hardware for 20 years, Alienware is marking the start of its third decade in the business by shining a light on some great offers on its super-spec'd gaming PCs and laptops.

There are also a score of Sony third - party partner games arriving on the console this year, such as The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Mortal Kombat X, Battlefield Hardline, Dying Light, Evolve and Batman: Arkham Knight.

It's not surprising given that nearly two - thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. last year were light trucks.