Sentences with phrase «vast distances from»

In the background are the blue and red elongated shapes of many other galaxies, which lie at vast distances from us — but which can all be seen by the sharp eye of Hubble.

This is often a vast distance from their homes (for example, in Central Australia).

Not exact matches

This infrared photo, taken from 2.2 million miles away, reveals the vast distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000 miles, or about 30 diameters of Earth stacked together.

The vast distance, aside from making the planet distant and difficult to study, leads to blisteringly cold temperatures that freezes hydrogen sulfide.

«Late in October 1914 three brothers rode from Choteau, Montana to Calgary, Alberta to enlist in the Great War,» reads Harrison's celebrated opening sentence, which author Vance Bourjaily would praise for establishing «both the voice and manner of the epic storyteller, who deals in great vistas and vast distances.»

Parents separated from their children know the joy and meaning of a voice that seems to leap the vast expanse of distance via the telephone.

Referring to the above correspondence between the Patriarch and the Metropolitan, Mingana observes that we can infer from the correspondence that «there was a considerable number of bishops and priests in India, whose sees and parishes were apparently scattered in the vast country to the distance of one thousand and two hundred parasangas.»

being a twin myself I can no more «sense» my twin from across the nation than you can «sense» another human being across any vast distance.

It was always a minority community living under the various disabilities and often isolated from one another by vast distances.

Robbie Savage has insisted John Terry is entitled to his opinion but feels he has «distanced himself from the vast majority of people involved in football» with his comments, the Metro reports.

So many good things have come from social media: It enables family and friends to connect despite vast distances, while the rest of ~ The Web ~ opens the door to a wealth of information, job opportunities, and even the potential to help save lives.

Incidentally, it has not gone unnoticed around Westminster that apart from a few infamous Labour examples, such as Labour's Ann Keen in Brentford and Isleworth, the vast majority of MPs in Outer London and the constituencies in the South East - who will lose out as a result of making those with seats «within travelling distance» of Westminster ineligible for the daily allowance - are Conservatives.

It is so vast that the average distance between objects is about as great as the span from Earth to the sun.

The occasional genetic interchange between populations also seemed to correlate with feeding grounds with high densities of krill, places where whales from different populations are likely to move vast distances and come into contact with other populations.

Electromagnetic waves travel over vast distances, so perhaps there is some way the electrical impulses that generate thoughts could be transmitted from one person to another.

Indeed, the U.S. already has one that is highly successful in moving resources vast distances, notably from the Gulf of Mexico to New York and New England.

Smoke from those fires has traveled vast distances, bringing hazy skies and poorer air quality to the Plains and parts of the eastern U.S.

Because of the vast distance (30 - 50 AU) of this region from the Sun and the Earth, even with the largest telescopes currently available, only the largest KBOs (> several hundred km) are observable.

The product of decades of trial and error by Willett and his collaborators, it was made from a flake of gallium arsenide so pure, he said, that electrons inside could sense one another's presence across vast micrometers of distance.

We can only find life if it produces a signature that is detectable from vast — literally astronomical — distances.

Away from the Galactic plane, vast majority of the dots are galaxies, color coded to indicate distance, with blue dots representing the nearest galaxies in the 2Mass survey, and red dots indicating the most distant survey galaxies that lie at a redshift near 0.1.

Light that is emitted or reflected by objects takes time to travel, and the vast distances it must cross to reach us from the farthest parts of the universe means that we see the most distant galaxies as they were billions of years ago.

This has been the best explanation for why the relic energy from the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background radiation, appears to be relatively uniform over vast cosmic distances.

This vast ball of ancient stars is located at a distance of about 17 000 light - years from Earth.

But to the real point of Seeking Arrangement's press release: The company is attempting to not - so - subtly distance itself from the vast spectrum of sex - for - money services that we sometimes call prostitution.

Logline: When a teenager who has always felt distanced from his parents discovers that he was, in fact, kidnapped as a child, he is thrust into a vast conspiracy and must go on the run in order to survive.

The 1963 Corvette was designed from a clean sheet of paper to fit Chevrolet's and General Motors concept of the two - seat sports car desired by American drivers and Stticed to their driving styles and the vast distances they covered.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

Explore Java and discover an island of contrasts from vibrant cities bursting with local life and colourful markets to vast volcanic landscapes stretching into the distance.

Set between a vast red desert and azure blue sea, this inn is at walking distance from the heart of Broome.

The Ulin Villas & Spa is a five - star villa resort located on Jalan Merta Sari, a quiet side street off the main Seminyak roads, and within walking distance to the upscale Seminyak areas vast array of restaurants, trendy designer boutiques and entertainment venues.The resort is within a 25 - minute transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban, South Bali, while the islands two other popular beach resort areas, namely Kuta and Legian, are just round the corner, within an approximate 15 - minute taxi ride south from Seminyak.While notable dining and entertainment venues such as Ku De Ta, Potato Head Beach Club, Huu and La Lucciola are within close reach via Jalan Kayu Aya and Petitenget, the livelier nightlife bar scenes are mostly found along Jalan Raya Legian.

A group of three islands part of the vast Indonesian archipelago, a short distance from Bali.

From this hill top resort beautiful scenes of Bali can be enjoyed, the vast tropical rainforests supplying the natural soundtrack to the view, the intricate rice paddies that extend far into the distance creating detailed textured patterns across the hillside and the imposing grandeur of Mount Agung standing proud in the distance releasing the long rivers that carve delicious valleys into the hillside.

Palutena The goddess of light from Kid Icarus joins the fight, with her vast variety of moves for up close and distance based gameplay.

You'd have to be blind not to notice that, from a distance, Tacita Dean's commission for Tate Modern's sepulchral Turbine Hall looks like nothing so much as a vast stained - glass window — and for this reason I fervently hoped it was going to have the same effect on me as Olafur Eliasson's numinous The Weather Project (Eliasson's commission, the fourth in the Unilever series, filled this space in 2003 - 4 — and oh, how I worshipped it).

What from a distance appear to be vast empty skies, prove to be blank walls, scrawled with graffiti or stained with nameless effluvia, which crowd the painting into a narrow plane and seal each unhealthy ecosystem.

Partially due to vast, low rental price premises and partially due to their geographical location — being a certain distance from residential neighbourhoods — those half - abandoned, half - experimental spaces produced their own treasures: great night clubs.

In this context, Weiner's statement offers a framework for this display, connecting artworks from across vast distances to provide a snapshot of current artistic thinking.

Almost invisible from a distance, the piece is nonetheless enormous, its elements spanning four acres and comprised of vast amounts of steel, wood, and soil.

Embodying the «grounding» of Los Angeles's water and power infrastructure, which span vast distances, Δ is of the landscape — a bit of sediment washed down from the San Joaquin River Delta and a transplant from the source.

The similarity between Venus and Earth whereby they are each at much the same temperature at the same pressure subject only to an adjustment for distance from the sun despite vast differences in atmospheric composition is empirical proof.

The atmosphere is analogous to a flexible lens that is shaped by the density distribution of the gas molecules, of the atmosphere in the space between the sphere holding them, and space; Incoming heat gets collected in many ways and places,, primarily by intermittent solar radiation gets stored, in vast quantities, and slowly but also a barrage of mass and energy fluxes from all directions; that are slowly transported great distances and to higher altitudes mostly by oceanic and atmospheric mass flows.

Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days

In the early years of Canada's settlement by Europeans, the voyageurs spent months, sometimes years, traversing vast distances of wilderness to buy animal pelts from distant Native trading posts.

Despite promising to work at various angles and from comfortable distances, this method refused to work the vast majority of the time.