Sentence examples for extinction of a star from inspiring English sources
Maybe the universe really was meant to be a home to humanity, and not just a blindly cruel cosmos in which a 6-year-old's fate is significant to his parents but no more meaningful in absolute terms than the cracking of a seashell or an extinction of a star.
Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave Extinction half a star out of a possible four, saying that the film was "no more interesting than watching someone else play with his Playstation".
While the existence of dark clouds in the Milky Way has been suspected of due to intervening obscuring masses in space (Barnard, 1919), the confirmation of the presence of interstellar dust only came after the observation of selective extinction of star light (Ö pik, 1931).
Provided that the angular size of a star can be measured (see below Stellar radii) and that the total energy flux received at Earth (corrected for atmospheric extinction) is known, the so-called brightness temperature can be found.
It will be the extinction of a race.
Extinction of a dominant design (Fig. 7).
Near extinction of a large, widely distributed fish.
Extinction of a West African red colobus monkey.
I care about the extinction of an entire people: lesbians.
In fact extinction measurements of stars in the region show that there is enough material at a distance less than ~90 pc with an optical depth of 0.09 (Jones et al., 2011).
