Observing it through a 40 cm telescope will reveal its central region and halo.
We only indirectly observe it through our sampling, so we need to estimate something.
The reason I could so closely identify with Adichie's Igbo Nigeria is that she observes it through the eyes of insider-outsiders.
There is a dramatic difference between reading or hearing of such an event and observing it through image and sound.
Observing it through the lens of the compagnons, Malloch sums it up: "Travel not only broadens the mind, it expands the skills base, humanity and cultural awareness.
One of the things we really want to do is get machines to acquire the very large number of facts that represent the constraints of the real world just by observing it through video or other channels.
As painter, he had neither ancestors nor issue, but his imaginative compositions sometimes recall those of Balcomb Greene, who also stands apart from reality, seeming to observe it through shattered mirrors.
Aside from the pops and blasts of weaponry (described by Matt as "the Fourth of July on steroids"), the scene is so confoundingly dark that, in a near-parody of Villeneuve's style, we observe it through not one but two forms of night vision: a thermal blur of monochrome, plus a grainy green-and-white.
And yet it heightens the disturbing slipstream effect of Internet time, where we never feel quite in the moment, instead always observing it through various mediating devices, recording it, time-stamping it, commenting on it, as it fades away as surely as one of Taylor Swift's boyfriends.
Now, observing it through the world's most sophisticated radio telescope, astronomers have discovered a massive cloud of dust in the heart of the supernova remnant.
In cases where a deviation from the reference sequence was observed, it was confirmed through re-sequencing from the opposite direction.
