Sentences with phrase «vast clouds of»

The problem in the 1980s was that American power plants were sending up vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, which was falling back to earth in the form of acid rain, damaging lakes, forests and buildings across eastern Canada and the United States.

If that finding stood the test of time, it would indeed be momentous; the vast clouds of tiny photosynthesizing organisms in the seas are an important part of the carbon cycle and underpin the marine food chain.

When they turned X-ray telescopes, such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, toward these clusters, they did indeed find vast clouds of superheated gas.

Aerosols are already known to reduce global warming: The vast clouds of sulfates thrown up in the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, for example, reduced average global temperatures by about half a degree Celsius.

Current theory states that baby stars hatch by the bushel in stellar nurseries, vast clouds of dust and gas that congeal into stars.

Unlike the Solar System where most of the gravitational pull comes from the Sun and is simple to model, it is much harder to describe the gravitational field near the centre of the Galaxy, where millions of stars, vast clouds of dust, and even dark matter swirl about.

When stars or vast clouds of gas fall into such massive objects, the resulting X-ray blaze can be seen across the universe.

The different pillars analysed by an international team seem to be pillars of destruction — in contrast to the name of the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, which are of similar nature.The spires and pillars in the new images of the Carina Nebula are vast clouds of dust and gas within a hub of star formation about 7500 light - years away.

Perhaps they were born «obese», forming when vast clouds of atomic hydrogen collapsed.

It explains how the earth formed four billion years ago out of a vast cloud of gas and dust.

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high - energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time.

Orbiting within the Kuiper Belt, a vast cloud of icy debris left over from the solar system's formation, the oddball is estimated to be 600 kilometers long but just 360 kilometers wide, making it one of the largest elongated bodies ever detected.

Every night The Orion nebula, a vast cloud of gas and newborn stars, is prominent in the south a couple of hours after sunset.

It took more than five years for Purcell to get enough observing time to complete the map, but when he finally pieced it together, he found a vast cloud of antimatter that seems to hover over the galactic north pole.

In a brief 10,000 years or so the core, now left in the middle of a vast cloud of dust and gas, finally begins to cool and fade.

Four and a half billion years ago, the place we now call the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust enshrouding a newborn star.

Astronomers have long suspected that our solar system coalesced from a vast cloud of gas and dust.

In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.

On the outskirts of the solar system swarms a vast cloud of comets, influenced almost as much by other stars as by our sun.

We now know that comets begin in the Oort Cloud, which is a vast cloud of ice and dust objects at the outer edge of our solar system.

A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.6 billion years ago.

John Martin's apocalyptic view of Vesuvius smothering Pompeii in a vast cloud of volcanic...

The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say.

Not exact matches

In the image above, the light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet's wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of its vast rings.

The company specifically listed as a «risk» the fact that it relies on Google Cloud for the vast majority of its computing and storage.

The vast majority of businesses leverage apps or cloud - based productivity tools to keep their global employees plugged in.

And we have a lot of relationships there: partly friendships, like with [Alibaba founder] Jack Ma, but also with Edward Tian, who's starting a vast cloud operation in Beijing.

He has directed resources away from many of Microsoft's declining legacy businesses and toward cloud computing, a fast - growing category ruled by rival Amazon but nascent enough (and vast enough) to potentially turn Microsoft's fortunes.

Anything that isn't stored locally, on a personal computer or external hard drive, is held in the vast network of remote servers known as the cloud.

A torrent of streaming music services has erupted, with Spotify, Rdio, MOG and many more offering users access to a vast collective record library, stored in the cloud and downloaded on demand — and 2013 will be the year they hit the mainstream.

Vusirikala said that cloud computing providers and other tech companies with vast data center infrastructure have increased the pace of laying undersea fiber - optic cables over the last three years.

Some justices worried during arguments in April that a ruling for the broadcasters could also harm the burgeoning world of cloud computing, which gives users access to a vast online computer network that stores and processes information.

We invest globally in companies at the intersection of The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Cloud, where billions of smart sensors, vehicles, cameras, industrial and consumer devices of all types are connected to the Internet, streaming vast amounts of data to the Cloud.

Recently, Amazon has started reporting consistent profits, largely due to the success of Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing business.192 Its North America retail business runs on much thinner margins, and its international retail business still runs at a loss.193 But for the vast majority of its twenty years in business, losses — not profits — were the norm.

Continuing to move backward in time, the mass of earth disappears into a gaseous cloud and merges with other vaporized bodies and so on until billions of years back we come, presumably, to the vast, compacted, superheated «atom» which, to reverse directions again, explodes to send the evolving, expanding galaxies on their way.

That is the sting of it, that in the vast driftings of the cosmic weather, though many a jewelled shore appears, and many an enchanted cloud - bank floats away, long lingering ere it be dissolved — even as our world now lingers for our joy — yet when these transient products are gone, nothing, absolutely nothing remains, to represent those particular qualities, those elements of preciousness which they may have enshrined.

That is the sting of it, that in the vast driftings of the cosmic weather, though many a jeweled shore appears, and many an enchanted cloud - bank floats away, long lingering ere it be dissolved — even as our world now lingers for our joy — yet when these transient products are gone, nothing, absolutely nothing remains, to represent those particular qualities, those elements of preciousness which they may have enshrined.

Sixty - five miles northwest of Mauna Kea, on the island of Maui, the vast, moonlike crater of Haleakala rises 10,025 feet to catch a blanket of clouds from the trade winds.

Indelible memories include entering the engine room of the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz - a Pyranesian vision of a vast chamber lined with weedcovered ladders and companion ways receding into stygian gloom and a close encounter with an octopus concluding with its disappearance into a cloud of black ink.

But he defends the governor's economic development programs and said the «vast majority» of the programs will be completed, though he admits there's a cloud hanging over it all.

The eternal teenagers of politics, led by a man resembling an earnest sixthformer, they are like a vast hot - air balloon, floating dangerously close to cloud - cuckoo land.

Its journey started in the Oort Cloud, a vast swarm of inert comets that stretches from the edge of our solar system nearly halfway to the next star.

A VAST stellar nursery 14,000 light years away has been hiding behind a thick cloud of dust.

That triggered vast polar stratospheric clouds, some of them as big as the continental United States.

Forget dark matter — a vast amount of normal matter visible in ancient gas clouds has gone AWOL.

19 Sure enough, astronomers found vast quantities of ethanol — as much as that in 400 trillion trillion beers — in G34.3, an interstellar cloud some 10,000 light - years from Earth.

Detecting astrophysical neutrinos would offer an unprecedented way of studying comic objects across vast distances, similar to the way infrared light allows us to peer into opaque cosmic dust clouds to see stars forming.

The standard model of cosmology now assumes that a galaxy forms within a vast cloud or halo of dark matter.

Like other comets of its type, PANSTARRS is thought to have originated in the Oort Cloud, a vast region containing millions of comets located more than two light years from the Sun.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.