It shows the objects in a thin swath of space extending outward from the Earth's Equator as they appeared on Aug. 12, 2003, among them some 14,000 asteroids and 126,594 galaxies.
In order to see the full effect, you must be on what's known as the path of totality, which is a thin swath of Earth, the umbra, where the moon obliterates the sun entirely.
"Boiled sliced whole fish in hot chili oil" and the "fisherman's spicy boiled beef with tofu" are indistinguishable but for their main ingredient: a big bony tilapia and oversized, thin-cut swaths of chewy beef, respectively.
Spread thin across vast swaths of Nigeria's semi-arid north-east, soldiers have long complained that they are under-resourced and under-equipped to adequately fight the militants.
The heat was a reminder of something she had gleaned years ago, when her father was dying, but had managed to forget: that ordinary days were a veil, a swath of thin cloth that distorted her sight.
If you were to use pop culture --circa the mid-aughts, specifically -- as your barometer, your answer might look like the swath of thin, light-skinned women found on television, in film, or on the pages of magazines.
But his images, while legible, relied on a highly abstract repertory of quick dabs, thick swaths and thin washes of paint.
Matt and Todd Birnbaum bake swaths of thin crust that are 36 inches long and 4 inches wide and lightly painted with tomato sauce.
When the smoke thinned, he saw again the swath of empty sky in the west, much as it once appeared from his bedroom window.
Another swath is mechanically thinned with chainsaws and brush-consuming masticators, while in another, fuel load is reduced with prescribed fire, which burns away woody debris, small trees and leaf litter.
Hikers and university researchers are exploring, discovering and mapping more and more spots of old-growth trees on wind-swept mountainsides, in wide swaths of forest, on thin rocky soil and on slivers of woods near malls and housing developments.
