Galactic Sentence Examples

On these the belt of greatest density can be easily traced, and it follows very closely the course of the Milky Way; but, whereas the latter is a belt having rather sharply defined boundaries, the star-density decreases gradually and continuously from the galactic equator to the galactic poles.

According to their results the star-density increases continuously from 109 per square degree at the poles to 2019 along the galactic equator.

Imagine this stratum to be uniformly filled with stars (of course in the actual universe instead of sharply defined boundaries AB and CD, we shall have a gradual thinning out of the stars) it follows that in the two directions SP and SP' the fewest stars will be seen; these then are the directions of the galactic poles.

That the sun is nearly midway between the two boundary planes can be tested by comparing the star-densities of the northern and southern galactic hemispheres.

If, instead of considering the whole mass of stars, attention is directed to those of large proper motion, which are therefore in the mean relatively near us, the crowding to the galactic plane is much less noticeable, if not indeed entirely absent.

The Pencil Nebula is almost exactly on the galactic equator.

Yes, a comet slamming into the planet or some galactic cataclysm could wipe us all out.

She'd planned on spending her Thursday evening in a raid for World of Warcraft or building her galactic empire in Homeworld, which Romas never approved of.

The horizontal axis is the Galactic Plane or Milky Way.

The inner part of our galaxy is the so-called galactic bulge.

But Gladys was delighted and after a night, ostensibly in adjoining rooms, the pair were off, with giggles and tears and a proud pronouncement that Arlen had agreed to present all seven volumes of Belfair and her galactic cohorts to the waiting world of letters—in paperback form.

The rotation curve is a plot of the orbital velocity of the clouds around the galactic center vs. their distance from the Galaxy center.

And there may be even a larger and longer cycle of our galactic core aligning with or being influenced by another center.

The general negative correlation between the two data sets, dominated by the Galactic plane to high Galactic latitude variation, is readily apparent.

Armed only with science and sex appeal, Flash is out to thwart the evil Emperor Ming's plans of galactic domination.

For extragalactic sources with either negligible or highly inhomogeneous internal absorption, please provide the value for the Galactic foreground absorption.

Due to their narrow spectral lines, they also act as a high-resolution probe of gas kinematics in outflow regions and active galactic nuclei.

The Astronomical Almanac reports the galactic latitude of the object in decimal degrees.

The Astronomical Almanac reports the galactic longitude of the object in decimal degrees.

The may also contain an active galactic nucleus at their center.

Some of what he learned was amusing, such as the tale of Xenu, the evil Galactic overlord.

However, dust absorption can reduce the Halpha intensity, particularly near or on the galactic plane.

She was just a common prole, he was the Grand Master of a vast galactic empire.

Meanwhile, wise aliens offer Vine the chance to become an immortal galactic supreme being.

What is the nature of the massive dusty torus believed to surround Active Galactic Nuclei?

I have also done some notable research on active galaxies and searches for high redshift galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

The US has a new Spaceport from which Britain 's Virgin Galactic plans to transport tourists into suborbital space by 2008.

The kinetic energy released by supernova explosions is more than enough to account for the Galactic cosmic rays up to 10 15 eV.

Then the player decides whether his or her character is going to be part of the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance.

In single and multiplayer mode, you have a choice between Training, Space Overview, Rise of the Empire, Galactic Conquest and Instant Action.

It is a good way to practice for the larger battles you will be involved with in the Rise of the Empire, Galactic Conquest and Instant Action.

Play Galactic Conquest, Rise of the Empire, train or select a specific battle to play in Instant Action mode.

In single player and multiplayer mode, you have a choice between the Historical campaign, Galactic Conquest and Instant Action.

In Galactic Civil War you play key battles from the original Star Wars Trilogy (IV-V), while the Clone wars focuses on specific scenarios from the Star Wars prequel movies.

Each planet you take control over you receive a planetary bonus to help your troops or sabotage your enemies in upcoming galactic battles.

Star Wars Battlefront also offers a Tutorial section where it gives you useful information on command posts, soldiers, vehicles, pilots, snipers, heavy weapons and the Galactic Conquest scenarios.

Play Galactic Conquest, Historical Campaigns, or select a specific battle to play in Instant Action mode.

You play the role of the illustrious Master Chief, the head of an army of bad-ass galactic marines.

There's something especially amusing about seeing your innocent, pudgy baby dressed up as the commander of the Galactic Empire.

Known as the galactic alignment, the Earth is part of a body of stars and planets known as the Milky Way.

On the 21st of December 2012, the Earth will be at the Galactic Equator.

This theory proposes that when the galactic alignment occurs in the constellation of Sagittarius, a black hole will be created.

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In Foundation, first volume of the trilogy, we are introduced to Hari Seldon and the Galactic Empire, which has existed for some 12,000 years.

Using his new science, Seldon predicts that if the Galactic Empire falls, which will be a lengthy and protracted affair, there will be 30,000 years of chaos, a new Dark Ages, before another empire emerges to carry civilization forward.

Owned at that time by Corellian smuggler, rogue and ultimate galactic hero Han Solo, she had previously belonged to fellow ne'er-do-well Lando Calrissian.

It follows the journey of Genly Ai, a diplomat from what can be presumed to be the 'earth' part of the galaxy as he attempts to persuade Gethen, a much colder planet than ours, to join the galactic federation.

Real-time ship to ship combat where you battle for galactic supremacy.

She was key to developing the galactic translator with her abilities to parse and translate languages.

The bewildered climbers looked longingly at their friends and especially Penny, but were trapped into listening to the galactic adventures of some creatures called "womps."

But Gladys was delighted and after a night, ostensibly in adjoining rooms, the pair were off, with giggles and tears and a proud pronouncement that Arlen had agreed to present all seven volumes of Belfair and her galactic cohorts to the waiting world of letters—in paperback form.

Seeliger, who investigated this ratio for the stars of the Bonn Durchmusterung and Southern Durchmusterung, came to the conclusion (as summarized by Simon Newcomb) that for these stars the ratio ranges from 3.85 to 3.28, the former value being found for regions near the Milky Way and the latter for regions near the galactic poles.

This is the galactic plane, well known from the fact that it is marked in the sky by the broad irregular belt of milky light called the Galaxy or Milky Way.

But it is necessary to make a careful distinction between the galactic plane and the Galaxy itself; the latter, though it is necessarily one of the most remarkable features of the universe, is not the only peculiarity associated with the galactic plane.

Actually we know that the intrinsic brightness varies very greatly, so that each increase of telescopic power not The table, which is based on over 130,000 stars, shows that along the galactic circle the stars are scattered nearly three times more thickly than at the north and south poles of the Galaxy.

In general, the fainter the stars included in the discussion the more marked is their crowding towards the galactic plane.

As we consider a direction such as SQ farther and farther from the pole the boundary of the universe in that direction becomes more and more remote so that more stars are seen, and finally in the directions SR and SR' in the galactic plane, the boundary is perhaps beyond the limits of our telescopes.

Dyson and Thackeray's tables show the same result for the Groombridge stars down to magnitude 6.5; but the fainter stars (with centennial proper motions greater than 5") show a marked tendency to draw towards the galactic circle.

It is only when some of the stars considered are more remote and lie outside this sphere (but of course between the two planes) that there is a galactic crowding.

There can be little doubt that these stars belong to the Milky Way cluster, so that their presence is a property of the cluster rather than of the galactic plane in general.

Spiral nebulae have the remarkable characteristic of avoiding the galactic plane, and it has been suggested that the space outside the limits of the stellar universe is filled with them.

As might be expected, the relative motion of the two great star-drifts is parallel to the galactic plane.

Dean's morning had been filled with enough ghosts, dreams and galactic sex to last a lifetime and he excused himself.