Word: flickering
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...team of astronomers has been using that technology in a project called OGLE, for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (hence the planet?s name) to search for just such magnifications. They?ve seen hundreds, but one that happened last July was followed a short while later by a smaller flicker- evidence that the magnifying star had a planet trailing behind (the planet?s flicker was actually detected by another group of astronomers, in the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, or PLANET collaboration, who had been alerted by the OGLE folks...
...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...
...Generally, all my classes here have been like eight people, and when you’re there that much together, you develop friendships. And VES is really like an extracurricular, because you spend so much time at the studio together.”The lights flicker off and a square of light pops up on a screen at the end of the table. Images appear and start moving across the screen. The 10-minute film follows a pregnant woman—the sister of one of the student filmmakers, Roberto C. Patino ’06—through...
...Right, okay,? Rice nodded, allowing just a flicker of triumph to light her face. ?Thank...
...tabloids sending their reporters on his plane (at $11,000 apiece) are on high gaffe alert. Will Charles, who asked 12 years ago, "How can any realistic person not take the threat of global warming seriously?" and intends to raise the issue privately with Bush, signal the slightest flicker of frustration with the President in public? Will someone, somewhere hold up a sign that implies that Yanks prefer Diana to Camilla? Like all caricatures, the view of Charles as not quite connected with the world holds some truth. Yet it is also fair to say that within the cocoon...