Sentences with phrase «tiny patch»

But in March, the European Space Agency announced that its orbiting Planck telescope had taken the temperature of 50 million tiny patches of sky, creating the highest - resolution baby picture of the whole universe ever taken, and allowing astronomers to better understand the first moments after the Big Bang.

Outside, the slow but constant leakage of water from the units provides enough moisture to create unplanned habitats for tiny patches of green.

Entire gardens to tiny patches with flowers.

«The results are highly encouraging,» says Pete Coffey of University College London, who heads a project to treat people with age - related macular degeneration using tiny patches of retinal pigment epithelial cells made from human embryonic stem cells.

Three orbiters have mapped the planet, and three rovers have inched over tiny patches of terrain.

The discovery was possible because, unlike conventional radio telescopes that observe tiny patches of the sky at a time, the MWA sweeps large areas of the sky and is capable of observing across a broader range of wavelengths.

Affectionately referred to as «torties,» these colorful kitties» coats are made up of large patches of two colors, sometimes including tiny patches of white.

You know, before doing a discount on it, the leaderboards are glitched and you can get a trophy, making the platinum almost impossible due to a simple glitch that could be solved with a little tiny patch.

A breakdown of facial traits into tiny patches of paint, Close's artworks are a way of understanding the human face, a form of optical training, both for the artist, but also for the viewer.

Sachi's home is the one tiny patch of fertile land which remains, surrounded by icy wasteland.

Even Amazon has only rolled out drone deliveries for a tiny patch of the British countryside.

It was made of red brick and had a tiny patch of grass to the left of the doorway.

Save one beautiful snowstorm, our days in that hotel were bleak — walking the dog in Midtown and needing to go blocks to find even a tiny patch of earth, making the long trek to the foreign world of the Madison Square Park playground, cooking for three in the tiny kitchenette, and other catastrophes major and minor.

Enjoy a short trail that winds through «the Thicket»: a tiny patch of red maple swamp, brushy tangles, and a traversing stream.

A short trail winds through «the Thicket»: a tiny patch of red maple swamp, brushy tangles, and a traversing stream.

Politicians, journalists and pundits flop around with increasing intensity yet it is only their tiny patch that shakes.

The whole design of SPHERE is therefore focused on reaching the highest contrast possible in a tiny patch of sky around the dazzling star.

The Hubble Space Telescope's «Ultra Deep Field» reveals about 10,000 objects in a tiny patch of sky, including some of the most distant galaxies ever seen.

The number uncovered agrees well with predicted figures for the tiny patch of sky probed, «meaning there should be loads and loads of these things throughout the universe,» West says.

Then, in a crevice 225 feet above the sea, they came upon another tiny patch of comparatively lush vegetation, dominated by a single melaleuca bush.

Khodadoust may have gotten infected by a tiny patch of bacteria that grew on the mesh used to fix his aorta.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a snapshot of about 10,000 galaxies in a tiny patch of sky, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Wheeler conjectures we are part of a universe that is a work in progress; we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself — and building itself.

This picture of that tiny patch of sky is called Hubble Deep Field North.

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.

In just 2014 alone, and while staring at just a tiny patch of night sky, Kepler confirmed the existence of more than 700 new planets.

It also seems unlikely that stretching an entire limb would make a tiny patch of muscle feel better.

It sits on this tiny patch of land and crams a lot of different styles into one area.

To put this in some kind of perspective, if you hold a single grain of sand at arm's length against the night sky, the tiny patch of sky it hides contains more than 100,000 galaxies — not 100,000 stars, 100,000 galaxies.

The discovery of microbes — those single - celled organisms that exist by the millions in a drop of water, blood, or tiny patch of any living tissue — was a game - changer, scientifically speaking.

My granddaughters dwarf hamster has a small patch on his bum, and a tiny patch on his nose.he lives with his brother.there isn't an sign of blood, and everything appears normal

The markings on the chest should form two distinct upside - down triangles; a tiny patch of white in between is not acceptable for show dogs.

La Lajilla is a tiny patch of sand next to a shallow natural swimming pool set in the rocks.

This tiny patch of land is the best place in the world to see migrating whale sharks when they arrive in Belizean waters between March and June.

Like a leaf floating in a pool, Centara Grand Island Resort and Spa is a tiny patch of verdant green in the sapphire sea of South Ari Atoll.

Seabreeze Warung #, overlooking a tiny patch of white sand, was by far the most popular when we passed by and was already filled with folk sipping on cocktails and Bintangs who looked settled into a day of chilling by the sea (and it was barely 10:30 in the morning!)

This second instance of non finito, unlike the tiny patches of white between the colored marks, is less disorienting than disarming.

When Caivano introduces a tiny patch of sunshine yellow, so near the edge of the canvas that at first glance it could almost be a painty fingerprint from moving the work in the studio — you soon realise the positioning is so finely judged, the way the colour activates the muted greys so subtle, that this is the work of the most accomplished of painters.

If The Netherlands can find that area in their tiny patch of ocean, surely Great Britain can find it along their extensive coastline?

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

But it's just a tiny patch of the globe.

On a damp and dreary afternoon, about 15 people are gathered on a windswept hill overlooking the Bosphorus, standing in a tiny patch of green surrounded by Istanbul's endless urban sprawl.

In Android 4.4, the built - in browser can be quickly updated by device manufacturers with a tiny patch.

He has the tiniest patch of white at the base of his neck.