When Foster speaks of "the spiritual dimension" of architecture, and its power to "lift the spirit, " he's talking about the action of light in space.
Fra Angelico's figures, by contrast, have a sculptural dignity, moving in light-filled space.
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And, in light of the momentum in the smartphone and tablet space, the growth is likely to continue for some time.
It does not experience, for example, the big swings in temperature and light endured by space telescopes positioned much closer to Earth.
The light from the planet was detected in infrared form by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which also detected the first light from another exoplanet, the gas giant HD 209458 b.
This exploits one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity: that the path of a beam of light (which is a straight line in empty space) is bent inwards by the gravity of a massive object.
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According to the company, when you capture all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space, you can do some pretty cool things like focusing a picture after you take it and creating interactive, living pictures.
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After several blocks I came across a Wells Fargo bank branch lit in the full blaze of noon, its wide space and swaths of red and yellow bathed in useless light, as it is all through every night when there is power.
No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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Jack Ng and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have written a paper arguing that Dr Lieu overestimated by a factor of several million the effect that fluctuations in space and time would have on light.
During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.
If SpaceX avoids major problems during its first four days in space, NASA will give the green light to berth.
Using this technology, Dr. Palanker expects to be able to fit enough light-powered panels to stimulate 5, 000 pixels in a space similar to what the other retinal prostheses use.
Metal-rubber mirrors would be light and rugged, and would be ideal for use in cameras, space probes or satellites.
They are the fingers and eyes and noses of the computer, bringing the world (be it a car crash, pressure in a fuel line, or light in a fiber-optic network) into the boxed, insular space that sits quietly on desktops.
Most of her songwriting happens in the living room, which has the most space and light.
Lawrence wakes early every morning to heat the bricks and light a kerosene space heater while his 75-year-old mother sits in bed in a hat and gloves.
Watch this space every week for an offbeat and memorable selection that might be light in tone, but never light-headed or lacking in heart.
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More than just a static show of lights, this collection throws our perception of light and space, encouraging the audience to touch, feel, stand and bathe in it.
He criticised conditions in the prison saying there was evidence of "no space, no light, no exercise, no diet, no food, no consideration of the needs of a woman carrying a baby".
He passes me on the right at the next light, and I am all too happy to let him go on in anger, giving space with a couple cars between us as Swiss buffers.
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She thought she had a chance to make the light at the intersection of NASA Road One and Space Center Boulevard, but the driver in front of her maddeningly decelerated as he answered his cell phone, and now he had come to a full stop while the turn arrow was still yellow.
Black holes are mysterious space objects with gravitational pulls so powerful they suck in everything around them including light.
The first images from space of the distribution of light sources on the planet's surface were published in 1989.
Patrizia Caraveo and her colleagues, at the Istituto di Fisica Cosmica in Milan have recently reported that in two pictures taken 12 days apart by the Hubble space telescope the point of light had shifted perceptibly.
Further out into space, beyond 10 billion light-years, Subaru will be able to see the universe in its infancy not long after the primordial fireball cooled enough to become transparent.
The white of his expansive tabletops in paintings like "The Table" and "The White Table Cloth" resembles an emission of light rather than a pigment, so the haphazardly strewn plates and baskets appear to be floating or suspended in space.
Just a fortnight ago, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope identified water vapour in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, albeit a gaseous exoplanet some 150 light years away.
Now that Dr van Paradijs's team, and another led by Kailash Sahu at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, have had time to look properly at the fading point of light, they have noticed a faint fuzz around it that looks as if it could be a galaxy playing host to a dramatic explosion.
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