Sentence examples for background of space from inspiring English sources

"And you don't worry a great deal about retaining all fission products," he added, since they fade safely into the already-radioactive background of space.

The context and historic background of space safety standards in Europe and the present institutionalized push for harmonization have been discussed here step by step.

The Vice President imagines viewers looking at storm systems and cloud formations above the full-color sunlit planet hanging in the stark black background of space, all the while contemplating the earth's majesty and fragility.

Holger Sierks who has been criticized for being stingy in releasing images from his OSIRIS camera just unveiled a jaw-dropper: the spidery, three-legged lander floating down against the black background of space.

Arranged across a room-filling pedestal, Gonzalez's quirky, somewhat skewed cardboard polyhedrons are titled "Space's Background (Forms)." Reminiscent in some cases of Gabriel Orozco's altered soccer balls, they feel more like models from a wayward physics experiment: What does, indeed, form the background of space?

Large ground-based telescopes can image some of the same wavelengths as Hubble, sometimes challenge HST in terms of resolution (via adaptive optics), have much larger light-gathering power, and can be upgraded more easily, but cannot yet match the Hubble's excellent resolution over a wide field of view with the very dark background of space.

They will never collide or interact, and will instead expand away from one another as they're embedded in a background of inflating space.

You can't see them because your visual system has adapted to the light levels from the sun, making the tiny variation in light that a star makes against the background of deep space invisible.

Boone notes that, while the 34-acre Navy Pier complex contains a multitude of large event spaces, both the EXPO and Snarkitecture teams "liked the contrast between the contemporary look of the installation and the historical background of the space," which was originally designed by architect Charles Sumner Frost and constructed in 1916 as part of Navy Pier's original structure.

One of them, Abdul Matin Hassankhel, organized a news briefing, amiably agreeing to sit outside so the television cameras could capture him against a background of open spaces and rusted metal.

The more benign microgravity environment and lower vibrational background of a space-based experiment should allow at least as good performance and we consider residual effects that may affect pointing performance.