Sentences with phrase «with objects in the sky»

Instead of trying to correlate the directions of the incoming cosmic rays with objects in the sky, they have simply looked for an imbalance in the rays coming from opposite directions.

Not exact matches

... I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Uefa have now opened up proceedings to charge both clubs with Sky Sports reporting that United are in trouble for allegedly blocking stairways, crowd disturbance and for the throwing of objects.

I remember reading an article about backyard digital astrophotography in a science magazine 20 - plus years ago; now I have a device in my pocket that can pull it off, albeit only with the most brilliant objects in the sky.

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

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But this time, instead of the Sun, the larger object is the Moon: Occasionally, the two line up in the sky providing us with this amazing view of objects that are actually separated by tens of millions of kilometers.

«Sky surveys are in some ways fundamental to opening up new classes of objects to investigation with larger telescopes,» he explains.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

A search of 70 per cent of the sky with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) has shown no planet, even though such an object should absorb sunlight and re-emit it in the infrared (New Scientist, Science, 30 November 1991).

Taken together, these findings explain why visual acuity is commonly measured with dark characters on light backgrounds and why visual resolution is lower for lights, as already noted by Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei when judging the size of light objects in paintings and the dark sky.

For the first time in history, humans knew the stars not just as points on a sky chart but as objects with defined locations in three - dimensional space.

During the past decade, however, astronomers have found real hazards associated with actual objects in the sky.

Of course, military pilots aren't the only ones with extensive experience looking at objects in the sky — and the equipment to record what they see.

Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

But many people don't know how the distances to astronomical objects can be measured and think there may be something wrong with the methods of the scientists, that perhaps all objects we see in the sky are no farther away than some thousand light years, and hence the YECs could be right anyway.

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

As a result, «inhabitants of worlds in one of our NGFS ultra-faint dwarfs would find their sky sparsely populated with visible objects and extremely boring.

A new radio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or explode.

The same deep sky survey, conducted with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the Dark Energy Survey Camera in Chile, has also turned up about a dozen other objects around 80 to 90 AU from the sun.

This planetary nebula is certainly the most impressive object of its kind in the sky, as the angular diameter of the luminous body is nearly 6 arc minutes, with a faint halo extensing out to over 15», half the apparent diameter of the Moon (Millikan 1974).

With a half year's worth of images, the astronomers determined that the star and the object moved together through the sky with the high common proper motion exhibited by nearby objects in the Solar neighborhood, confirming that the two are physically associaWith a half year's worth of images, the astronomers determined that the star and the object moved together through the sky with the high common proper motion exhibited by nearby objects in the Solar neighborhood, confirming that the two are physically associawith the high common proper motion exhibited by nearby objects in the Solar neighborhood, confirming that the two are physically associated.

By the second night, however, the object had faded in brightness to 30 million times fainter than the limit of visibility with the naked eye in Earth's night sky (Bhargavi et al, 2000).

Here, in South America we could enjoy the setting sun, with clouds, finally designed in Voxel that will make them appear as physical and real objects in 3D, abandoning those artwork spread on the sky.

8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Big Sur has ideal conditions for viewing with a telescope celestial objects in the night sky.

Where sculptures are placed in relation to one another, whether or not they stand on a plinth or pedestal, and how they interact with the walls, ground, and ceiling or sky complicate and enhance the experience and meaning of her individual objects.

For instance, in a small side room, US artist Dario Robleto's Setlists for a Setting Sun (The Crystal Palace)(2014) and The Sky, Once Choked with Stars, Will Slowly Darken (2011) are comprised of, among other minerals and objects, sea urchin teeth, homemade crystals, glass domes, audio recordings and mica flakes (which can be found in the mountains of New Mexico).

Margaret Neill is inspired by the fluid geometric qualities of curve and line, in particular how the natural qualities of the earth and sky intermingle with urban elements of object and architecture.

The room and the light continue to disintegrate, objects appearing and disappearing across the nine large panels, concluding with an exterior view: two birds flying in a sky that is at once stormy and clear.

Her early object paintings and interest in scientific imagery led to her drawings and prints of seas, night skies and deserts, with their extraordinary surfaces and physical presence.

Allen Gilchrist, a local amateur astronomer, will be on hand with others pointing out objects of interest in the night sky and helping visitors use the telescopes that will be available.

Neill is inspired by the fluid geometric qualities of curve and line, in particular how the natural qualities of the earth and sky intermingle with urban elements of object and architecture.

In addition, this scope has an electronic GPS database that is preloaded with almost 40,000 celestial objects, and after you calibrate this model, it can scan the skies for you.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a technique used in digital photography as a method of dealing with scenes that include both bright and dark areas, such as an object in shadow in front of a bright sky.

Hikers are encouraged to walk at their own paces, and the Museum Guide stops at various points during the hike to explain certain places of interest with the group (i.e. historical places and objects highlighted in the sky).