Sentences with phrase «tiny stars on»

Somehow the effect of the cottonwood fluff thick in the air and the light and the trick of the blinds made it look like glitter flying in the street, like tiny stars on fire, and I stopped reading until I got a good poke in the ribs, «Mama, you stopped!»

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On the surface, the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi appears to be about 85 - year - old legendary sushi master Jiro Ono, his approach to his craft, and his tiny, three - Michelin - starred restaurant in a Tokyo subway station.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

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.

Indeed, on a clear night, one can see many stars more than 6,000 light years away with the naked eye, shining down like tiny silent witnesses against the nonsense of creationism.

Instead of the coo - coo info that Earth sits on pillars and has a dome above it, maybe something like: «The Earth is a tiny round pebble in space and it orbits a giant sun / star, which provides it with energy and light.»

What Christian would willingly surrender the appearance of the angels to the shepherds and the «multitude of the heavenly host» singing a hymn never heard before on land or sea, or the star dropping low from the skies to guide the magi from far away mysterious lands to the Judean village and the stable who God himself lay a tiny baby in the arms of his mother?

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.

Even though North Star Seafood is large enough to have significant buying power, that doesn't mean it can't focus on the tiniest details for its customers.

How about a teeny - tiny card featuring a track star that a magnificently insane owner put on his baseball team to do nothing but run fast and steal bases?

He had wanted to emulate his grandfather George, a hunter and a trapper, but Jonathan had also begun playing hockey on his backyard rink at age 2 1/2 and was a star on Moose Factory's tiny youth travel team.

Having been attracted by big movements and bold colours for months, your baby will probably now be noticing the tiniest details — your earrings, the flowers on your shirt, the nose on his teddy bear — starring at them for seconds at a time and even trying to reach out and grasp them with their fist (more delicate finger movements come a bit later).

On the 4 December 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, founder Sam Phillips brought his stars back to the tiny recording studio that launched their careers.

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

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

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.

Astronomers have found clear evidence of tiny but supermassive objects there, pulling on stars and stirring up hot disks of gas.

Each Sprite, built on a single circuit board, is a prototype of the tiny spacecraft that Starshot scientists intend to send to Alpha Centauri, the trio of stars closest to the...

To find smaller planets, which exert barely perceptible tugs on their parent stars, astronomers are developing instruments to detect ever - tinier motions.

The star had a known Jupiter - size companion, but Santos and his colleagues found an extra tiny wobble on a regular cycle lasting 9.5 days.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

«Studying these fingerprints in detail requires very precise measurements of the wavelength, or colour, of the light emerging from the atmospheres of these stars» says Dr Matthew Bainbridge, who has been working on the detailed analysis techniques needed to detect the tiny changes expected.

For this, TESS is relying on follow - up studies by ground - based telescopes, which can watch for tiny periodic Doppler shifts in the frequency of a star's light caused by an orbiting planet tugging on it.

rom the moment in 2013 when paleoanthropologist Lee Berger posted a plea on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for «tiny and small, specialised cavers and spelunkers with excellent archaeological, palaeontological and excavation skills,» some experts began grumbling that the excavation of a mysterious hominin in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa was more of a media circus than a serious scientific expedition.

Astronomers aren't sure why, but they posit that the tiny galaxy ran out of the gases that fuel star birth early on.

Someday in the coming years, if astronomers finally succeed in locating a virtual Earth twin outside the solar system — a tiny dot of a world at a temperate, life - enabling distance from a sunlike star — the achievement will hardly be cause for resting on observational laurels.

Based on the distance from the central star and the distribution of tiny dust grains, the baby planet is thought to be an icy giant, similar to Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System.

In a protoplanetary cloud around a young star there would be tiny grains of rocky material that would provide a surface on which chemicals could react.

Up to half of early breast cancers contain little clusters of microcalcifications, tiny deposits of calcium that on a mammogram look like a constellation of faint stars.

To understand the huge explosion that results, you have to know what's going on with the star's tiniest particles.

So, now that we know a tiny rocky world orbiting a tiny star 39 light - years away can support its own atmosphere, the future could be bright for finding evidence of alien biology on super-Earths orbiting red dwarf 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 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 regional news site decided to call on Snapchat stars to cover the event on their respective accounts and invited them to live in a tiny home during their stays.

The flared maxi skirt has a sheer structure that boasts of tiny sparkly stars on it.

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).

I also have a few design stamps that will fit on this necklace including; a tiny heart, a tiny star and a tiny arrow.

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.

Its first shot is a soft sky full of WWII bombers, looking like sweet angels, highlights from the sun winking on their stumpy wingtips like tiny stars.

Aside from captivating audiences in HBO's «The Night Of,» Ahmed also had a great year on the big screen — he starred in «Jason Bourne,» «City of Tiny Lights» and «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.»

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.

Rogue (Dimension, February 2) Starring: Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Stephen Curry, John Jarratt, Heather Mitchell, Mia Wasikoska, Sam Worthington Director: Greg McLean Rating: NR The Pitch: An Australian tour guide (Mitchell) unwittingly leads her group into a crocodile's den, stranding everyone on a tiny island.

Based on the novel of the same name by Tom Drury the film stars Zooey Deschanel and Anton Yelchin; take a look below after the official synopsis... Pierre Hunter (Anton Yelchin), a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny -LSB-...]

Well, Noah Baumbach does, and if you consider that his «Frances Ha» lavishes its gorgeous monochromes on contemporary New York and the luminous countenance of Greta Gerwig (his star, current g.f. and co-writer), you might suspect that Baumbach's latest owes more than a tiny debt to Woody Allen's «Manhattan.»

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 creatures.

Akin, who has said that the movie is inspired by recent real - life killings by a neo-Nazi terror cell in Germany, finds some poignant details: a tiny coffin painted with stars and moons; a tribute offering of candles outside Nuri's office, in the cold rain; a little boy's pirate ship on the rim of the bathtub, in the sightline of a mother who can't bear to move it.

Gulliver's Travels (12/22) Overhaul of the Jonathan Swift classic, set in the present, stars Jack Black in the title role as an aspiring travel writer sent on his first assignment to investigate the Bermuda Triangle who ends up on the mysterious island of Lilliput where he towers over its tiny inhabitants.

This feels like the film - version of I Am Legend that filmmakers have struggled with at least three times and all failed in somewhat interesting ways (The best of which, The Last Man On Earth, starred Vincent Prince struggling with a very tiny European budget).