Sentence examples for Distance marker from inspiring English sources

The work, using the brightness and rotation speeds of spiral galaxies as a cosmic distance marker, propelled the young astronomers into the middle of a bitter, longstanding debate among older astronomers who could not agree within a factor of 2 about the size and age of the universe.

AS he steers his snub-nosed truck through Midtown traffic, up to 1,000 gallons of used restaurant grease sloshing in a tank in the back, Axel Arce keeps an eye out for sights that can prompt a bit of New York trivia, like the fact that the statue at Columbus Circle is the traditional distance marker for New York, the point from which mileage between this city and all others are measured.

A symbolic distance marker showing 0.0km sits just north of the lighthouse, behind which lies a wide craggy area that descends almost like a natural amphitheatre before plunging off the edge.

The detector to use in other situations should be chosen on basis of the expected line thickness and noise, for example, marker distance, marker viewing angle, and illumination (indoor/outdoor) circumstances.

An unnamed pilot lost control and struck a runway distance marker while landing in Amarillo, Texas.

A portion of that wall, including the distance marker, had been sliced off and moved to the Allegheny Club at Three Rivers Stadium.

Equally important, these explosions have served as cosmic distance markers for astronomers.

So, these supernova explosions act like glow-in-the-dark distance markers in space!

It was discovered 10 years ago by astronomers who were using exploding stars called supernovas as distance markers to chart the expansion of the universe.

Most of the previous studies, including those that led to the discovery of dark energy, used exploding stars known as Type 1a supernovas as cosmic distance markers.

For the last four years, they have plumbed the deep history of the universe, using violent, faraway cataclysms called quasars as distance markers.