Sentences with phrase «tiny dips in»

Both telescopes are designed to spot the tiny dips in a star's brightness as a planet passes between the telescope and the star.

The spacecraft did so by staring at roughly 150,000 stars in a celestial patch representing 1 / 400th of the sky, waiting for tiny dips in starlight that would signal a planet was passing by, blocking a little bit of light.

Astronomers have identified over 2,300 new planets in Kepler data by searching for tiny dips in a star's brightness when a planet passes in front of it.

Their goal was to demonstrate that amateurs could measure the tiny dip in brightness that happens when an exoplanet passes in front of its home star.

The tiny dip in brightness when a planet passes in front of one of these stars is called a transit.

I was fortunate to see only a tiny dip in September which looks to have lost me between $ 50 - $ 75 dollars for that month but I feel so sorry for other authors who are watching their income tank, especially if they've put everything into this and have a mortgage to pay.

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But they're often thwarted when, with the slightest dip in temperature, the plants sprout tiny, unsalable stems.

i make a tiny bowl of ice water and dip my scooper in it before i scoop each ball of dough... try it, you won't even be mad.

Light on the cheese, fresh sliced tomatoes, and tiny eggplant slices dipped in egg and spiced cornmeal and lightly fried before baking.

5) Before adding the top of the crust, dip your fingers in a tiny bit of water, and run them along the edge of the bottom crust.

By the time we started sipping our Old - Fashioned and dipping French fries in ketchup cradled in tiny sterling buckets, we considered ourselves wooed, and started strategizing how to make all of our kitchen and dining endeavors perfect experiences that look — and feel — as good as The Polo Bar does.

I kept this toddler birthday party fairly simple; cupcakes, a tiny birthday cake that my daughter helped me decorate during nap time, and pretzels dipped in candy melts.

Simple mix the tiniest bit of sugar in with some warm water and slowly dip the bottle nipple into the mixture.

This all - in - one container allows you to pack your child healthy veggies and dip or crackers and hummus, without the need for multiple tiny containers.

Sure, it's messy but just think of all the great pictures you'll have of blueberry covered faces and tiny fingers dipped in squash puree.

When a planet orbits in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.

They argue that some of the smaller dips of light attributed to Boyajian's star are actually deep dips in brightness from fainter adjacent stars in Kepler's field of view, possibly caused by swarms of tiny, dense clouds or comets in interstellar space.

After analyzing the videos, they found that, as the animal dipped its tongue in and out of the flower, tiny blood vessels on the hairs of its tongue became engorged with blood, prompting the hairs to stand straight up and drag even more nectar up from the flower.

Some of these dips in light showed that MU69 (illustrated) might be shaped like a peanut, and one light blocking detected July 10 suggested the Kuiper Belt object has a tiny companion.

A transit - watching telescope like Kepler waits for dips in brightness as a planet travels in front of its star and blocks a tiny fraction of its light.

I did make peanut butter patties and this is a very similar concept, only you roll the peanut butter dough up all teeny tiny and dip it in chocolate!

Once it is dry, use a nail striper dipped in white nail polish to create tiny horizontal lines from the left and right.

I had a little too much fun at the beach last week but it felt great to have my toes in the sand and I even braved dipping my feet in the water (I have a tiny fear of the ocean, but that is another story).

using a cotton ball dipped in a tiny amount of mineral oil just to help avoid the excessive buildup of earwax.

Despite this leap, the game still maintains a solid 60 fps aside from a few tiny dips when tutorial videos pop up in the corner of the screen.

The analog sticks also dip in at the top, while there are tiny holes in between that might house a speaker.

Tiny, intricate markings in pen and ink give way to rhythmic, voluminous forms that dip in and out of figuration and abstraction.

In this illogical «machine» the wings of a tiny origami crane are set in motion by a string passing through a hole in the gallery's wall connected to a series of devices - ultimately propelled by a seven foot waterwheel comprised of giant spinning dentures dipping in and out of a plastic pool of wateIn this illogical «machine» the wings of a tiny origami crane are set in motion by a string passing through a hole in the gallery's wall connected to a series of devices - ultimately propelled by a seven foot waterwheel comprised of giant spinning dentures dipping in and out of a plastic pool of watein motion by a string passing through a hole in the gallery's wall connected to a series of devices - ultimately propelled by a seven foot waterwheel comprised of giant spinning dentures dipping in and out of a plastic pool of watein the gallery's wall connected to a series of devices - ultimately propelled by a seven foot waterwheel comprised of giant spinning dentures dipping in and out of a plastic pool of watein and out of a plastic pool of water.

Next, he applied size (weak glue used in the middle ages to stiffen the pages of illuminated manuscripts) and painted the final layer with tiny brushes dipped in gold leaf.

Each painting was created by dipping a video camera's lens into black oil paint and dragging it across the surface of a mirror in successive bands, leaving only tiny bits of the reflective surface exposed.

Next, he went over the drawing with size (weak glue used in the Middle Ages to stiffen the pages of illuminated manuscripts) and painted the final layer with tiny brushes dipped in gold leaf.

Whether you're interested in meeting like - minded people or making changes to the zoning regulations, joining a local Meetup is a great place to dip your feet in the Tiny House community pool!

So, now that flight restrictions have been lifted and air travel has resumed, any dip in emissions caused by Eyjafjallajökull is but a tiny blip on the global warming radar.

decided this took too long with my pitifully tiny spray bottle, so I moved more toward the «dippy» method, i.e. dipping brush in water, then paint + water mix and applying.