Seen from the Long Island Expressway, the Manhattan skyline glows on the evening horizon.
On her first trip to Atlanta, she gazed out at 14 lanes of densely packed car lights -- one river of red, one white -- that flowed to and from the night horizon on Interstate 85. "They look like ants moving up a mountain," she said.
At night, the horizon springs a rim of lights — more, it seems, every year.
At night, the horizon springs a rim of lights more, it seems, every year.
Announced with great fanfare on Monday and on BBC2's Horizon last night, the prize offers the public the chance to decide which of six major problems faced by the world today — paralysis, flight without carbon emissions, antibiotic resistance, dementia and the supply of water and food — should be the focus of a £10m competition to find a solution.
By the time the sun breaks over the desert horizon this morning, Mark Covert will have already pulled on his blue Nike Air Max 2Lights and pushed himself out the door into the early morning chill for his daily run.
Venus, blazing at mag –4.0 to –4.1 in our W sky at nightfall, stands higher and sets later each evening, dropping below our NW horizon after midnight BST from the 14th onwards.
Viewers should look toward the eastern horizon between midnight and 2 a.m., said Scott Kardel, public affairs director of Palomar Observatory in San Diego County.
AS the late afternoon sun bathes the horizon in purple and crimson, I wander slowly down the long, curving beach.
We sat in silence looking out at the tarmac shimmer as the late afternoon heatwaves engulfed the horizon.
