Sentences with phrase «tiny stars as»

Not exact matches

Perhaps few entrepreneurs in the world today revel in the impossible as much as Walter De Brouwer, the 55 - year - old Belgian self - described anarchist with a Ph.D. in semiotics who believes he can disrupt the entire health care industry with a tiny device inspired by Star Trek.

The r - process goes something like this: As neutron stars move toward each other, a tiny bit of their material gets shot into space at incredible speeds.

As Taylor wraps up his demo, I notice tiny blue stars in his chat stream.

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.

The most recent Nature World News reported this week that a German weekly magazine announced that researchers have found an «Earth - like» planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — a star that's known as a «tiny, red dwarf.»

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

Before the astonished Jews there was unfolded a world of immensity, of wonder, and of regularity such as to render ludicrous the traditional claim that Yahweh, god of the tiny land of Palestine, had made not alone the sun and moon but the host of the stars also.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

He still retains a tiny slice of the 17 per cent block of shares still owned by minority shareholders who are mainly Melbourne - based, but O'Hoy missed the cut and thrust of the fast - moving consumer goods industry even though he has a busy portfolio of other roles including as a director of the Melbourne Stars Big Bash cricket team.

Star - nosed moles have 22 tiny trunks containing a total of nearly 100,000 nerve fibers — six times as many touch receptors as on a human hand.

While a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star clusters.

The planets were discovered by the transit method, which detects potential planets as their orbits cross in front of their star and cause a very tiny but periodic dimming of the star's brightness.

The tiny flickering was unfortunate at first, since the entire system of measuring the brightness of stars originally used Polaris as its standard.

PSR J1713 +0747, as it is known, has a tiny white dwarf companion star, and the two orbit each other exceptionally predictably.

Tiny black holes, weighing as much as a star, simply didn't have enough time to clump together into the behemoths.

Until now, the prevailing hypothesis has said that as stars evolve, metals (astronomers» term for any chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) in the swirling disk around them form tiny «seeds» that attract other matter and slowly grow into planets.

The institute's star attraction is its pulsed - power generator, the Angara -5-1, which, for a tiny fraction of a second, can produce about 100 times as much power as all the power stations in Britain could manage together.

Using star - shaped block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures — including metallic, ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductor and luminescent nanocrystals.

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in space and time itself, set off by cosmic cataclysms such as the merger of two neutrons stars or black holes.

The tiny spacecraft would first need to approach the star Alpha Centauri A as close as around four million kilometres, corresponding to five stellar radii, at a maximum speed of 13,800 kilometres per second (4.6 per cent of the speed of light).

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from Earth.

In recent years, planet hunters have been able to measure extremely precise velocities as they hunt for the tiny shifts a small planet, like the one orbiting Proxima, induces in its star, tugging it towards and away from us.

This sequence of low - resolution telescope images (the best that are available) shows an asteroid discovered in 2008 as a tiny dot (with an arrow pointing toward it) as it moves across the sky against a background of stars.

Thought to have approximate masses between 13 and 80 Jupiters, they can be defined neither as massive planets nor tiny stars; they're entirely different substellar curiosities that possess qualities of both.

They hope to find tiny stutters in these natural clocks caused by the gravitational wake of a massive event, such as a black hole in orbit around another star.

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from the Earth.

Before Kepler, plenty of Jupiter - sized worlds could be seen, but with its precision eye for spotting the tiniest of fluctuations of star brightness (as a small exoplanet passes between Kepler and the star), the space telescope has found that smaller exoplanets outnumber the larger gas giants.

As a planet passes between its star and the Kepler telescope, it blocks a tiny portion of the star's light.

Kepler gets better at finding smaller planets with longer periods over time, because it has more time to search for the tiny shadows they cast as they pass in front of their home stars.

As expected, the shifts in the star positions as observed on the plane of the sky — called proper motions — are tiny, even over the long time baseline between 2002, when the Hubble observationswere performed, and the first set of publicly released Gaia data, gathered between 2014 and 201As expected, the shifts in the star positions as observed on the plane of the sky — called proper motions — are tiny, even over the long time baseline between 2002, when the Hubble observationswere performed, and the first set of publicly released Gaia data, gathered between 2014 and 201as observed on the plane of the sky — called proper motions — are tiny, even over the long time baseline between 2002, when the Hubble observationswere performed, and the first set of publicly released Gaia data, gathered between 2014 and 2015.

As the exoplanet blocks a tiny amount of light by passing in front of its star, Kepler detects the transit and can gauge the physical size of the world based on how much starlight it blocks.

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.

While the tiny galaxy is only 6 percent the size of the Milky Way, it contains about twice as many stars.

A new analysis of data from the Planck space telescope has concluded that the tiny silicate and carbonate particles spewed into interstellar space by dying stars could account for as much as 100 percent of the signal detected by the BICEP2 telescope and announced to great fanfare this spring.

A breakthrough has been made as scientists discover a tiny star in a binary system located around 14,800 light years away.

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

Whether it's a sheer chiffon maxi skirt constructed of soft accordion pleats, tightly pinched rows of ruffles or knife - sharp pleats so tiny they just appear as a wash of texture, pleating is a technique that stars - in - the - know are selecting both for its high - minded design and feminine effect.

And on Thursday, the Modern Family star started her undergraduate career on a high fashionable note, as she made her debut at the University of California, Los Angeles, in sky - high white platform tennis shoes and the tiniest Daisy Dukes imaginable (shop a similar style here).

The dress is tiny, not red carpet - worthy and looks like it was made for someone like Kendall Jenner to wear... This look is completely lackluster and she doesn't look like a star of the movie, even Jenna as a plus one outshined her

Chloé Zhao's The Rider plays like an inverted update on Ray's undervalued classic, as it follows real life riding star Brady Jandreau after he's already achieved a level of fame in his tiny South Dakota town that few others have ever seen.

Set in 1950s Ireland, Saoirse Ronan stars as young Irish woman Eilis, who is given the chance to move away from her tiny countryside village to the bustling streets of Brooklyn, New York.

As proof that the «Star Wars» saga inspired a generation of filmmakers, check out this list of tiny nods and references in other films.

Released: December 22 Cast: Matt Damon, Hong Chau, Christoph Waltz, Kristen Wiig Director: Alexander Payne (Sideways) Why it's great: An unexpectedly sweet satire about the interminable pursuit of happiness, Downsizing stars Damon as Paul, an occupational therapist from Omaha who, thanks to a new, resource - saving medical procedure, shrinks down to five - inches tall and relocates to a paradise for America's tiny population, where his modest wages amount to millions.

«Starred Up» This tiny, fierce little British prison - set gem was overlooked by most at Telluride and TIFF this year, and it's easy to understand why: a cast of mostly unknowns, a director (David Mackenzie, of «Young Adam» and «Hallam Foe «-RRB- who'd never quite lived up to his potential, and a genre, the prison flick, that's inspired almost as many terrible Britflicks as «Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.»

The tiny green fellow stayed more tight lipped about his rumoured role in Star Wars: Episode VIII, though, as did British actor Ade Edmondson.

Pup Star: World Tour: Family film takes audiences around the world, as the action - packed spin on popular TV singing competitions goes global when «Tiny,» the adorable singing Yorkie pup, packs her bags for far - away places from Africa to India and beyond.

In the lead role, Hawkins stars as famous Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis who grew in notoriety while maintaining a humble lifestyle in the tiny home she shared with her husband.

Now, Seidelman is back this week with the ensemble comedy «The Hot Flashes,» starring Brooke Shields, Virginia Madsen, Wanda Sykes, Daryl Hannah and Camryn Manheim as former basketball stars — now menopause - age women — who suit up one more time to challenge the local high school girls team to a breast - cancer charity fundraiser in a tiny Texas town.

But «Appropriate Behavior,» in which she also stars as a bisexual Brooklyn girl reeling from a break - up, should at the very least be a «Tiny Furniture» - style boost, aided by a brief acting role on the fourth season of «Girls.»

As you can see, the trailer prominently features a totally naked version of The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus — who was also set to star in Kojima's Silent Hills before Konami canned it — as he holds a tiny baby on a beach covered in dead sea creatureAs you can see, the trailer prominently features a totally naked version of The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus — who was also set to star in Kojima's Silent Hills before Konami canned it — as he holds a tiny baby on a beach covered in dead sea creatureas he holds a tiny baby on a beach covered in dead sea creatures.