Sentence examples for patch of stars from inspiring English sources

Kepler fixes its gaze on a patch of stars in Cygnus that are hundreds if not thousands of light-years away — too far for any wobble detections that would assess the abundance of Earthlike planets in the galaxy or any other close scrutiny.

One of the three components, known as reaction wheels, that help keep it pointing in the right direction (specifically, at a patch of stars between the constellations Lyra and Cygnus) had jammed.In this section Checkpoint Charlie A heroic find Peer to peer Lost and found ReprintsWith its sole spare reaction wheel already damaged, things did not look good.

Corot, which Dr. Borucki called "a complementary mission," also looks at a given patch of stars for only a few months and so would miss the successive transits of an Earth-like planet, which, to be habitable, would have to take about a year to orbit a Sun-like star.

Last year observers found a distant galaxy that seemed to have patches of stars made up of hydrogen and helium but nothing else.

The histrionic 1965 melodrama "A Patch of Blue" stars Sidney Poitier as a young man who befriends a young blind woman (Elizabeth Hartman) over the racist opposition of her prostitute mother (Shelley Winters, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her ridiculously shrill and violent performance).

Identifying an aircraft through a patch of eclipsed stars he could then position himself to attack.

Here are three more "Holy sh*t" island experiences: After a pre-dawn hour drive in pitch blackness -- save for patches of foreign stars -- with windows rolled down listening for waves to ensure we were heading in the right direction, we pulled into a field.

It scrutinizes a patch of some 155,000 stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra looking for dips in starlight when planets cross in front of their home stars.

In far less than the blink of an eye, 10-37 second, a speck much smaller than a proton would have swollen to the size of a grapefruit and then resumed its more stately expansion, with all of normal cosmic history before it, resulting in today's observable universe -- a patch of sky and stars 14 billion light-years across.

Before it was hobbled last year by a broken gyroscope that robbed it of its precision-pointing ability, the Kepler telescope stared at a patch of roughly 150,000 stars and watched for dips in the starlight as planets passed in front.

Before it was hobbled last year by a broken gyroscope that robbed it of its ability to focus on a point in space, the Kepler telescope stared at a patch of roughly 150,000 stars and waited for dips in the starlight as planets passed in front.