Lights glinted on the water, dark shapes punctuated with hundreds of points of light, the towers of the city, the far-off lights of the South Bank Centre, far more real for him then than their counterparts in the air above.
Mr. Marin joined up with the Crowtations, a four-puppet troupe of rhythm-and-blues singing crows that performed regularly in Central Park, and he saw the far-off lights of fame glimmer once again when the Johnny Carson "Tonight" show invited them to perform.
They started by estimating the distance to the far-off light source galaxies by comparing their colors to those of galaxies at known distances.
"That was unexpected". Capturing an image from a far-off light source is a way of looking back in time.
In a sure sign that Christmas is not far off, the lights on the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were switched on last Tuesday, 79 years after the first tree was put up at what was then a construction site.
So the Neo Geo connection is not so far off base, while Light and Space, and modernist abstraction in general, emerge more as a target.
High over the trees that surround us, I can see the faint glow of urban lights far off in the hazy nighttime sky.
Yet, all I see is mainly black, and on occasion a little bit of tiny orange-black swirling, and very, very rarely some very tiny lights far off in the background.
A vaccine still remains far off, but the research lighted up one complex path that may someday be followed to that distant goal.
Graphene was found to be incredibly strong, and electric current zipped across it with virtually no loss, up to 200-times faster than in silicon not far off the speed of light.
Far off, towards the middle of Bodmin Moor, patches of sun light the flanks of Brown Willy.
