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The near object's gravity bends the light rays from the more distant object and magnifies them like a lens.
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Make work legal, while making citizenship a distant object for those who want it.
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Obama's targeted tax cuts will make the worthy goal of tax simplification an even more distant object.
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Its gravitational field thus bends and focuses the light from the distant object, making it appear closer than it really is.
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Look away from the screen about every 20 minutes and stare at a distant object for several seconds to relax your eye's focusing muscles.
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In that case, if exporters are struggling to sell their products, the more apparent near-term problem is that their own high prices are making inventory clearing a distant object.
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On its own, the distant object of wealth should be incentive enough, but with our Treasury seeking a debased dollar, and Congress looking to increase the tax penalty on investment returns, it would certainly help if Washington were to remove these two savings impediments.
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The greater the redshift, the more distant the object and the earlier it is being seen in cosmic history.
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To observe such a distant, faint object, scientists had to collect light through the telescopes over 37 hours, letting more and more light accumulate to see as deep as possible.
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But that allows for a distant relative to object.
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On November 17, 1998, Voyager 1 became the most distant man-made object from the Sun when it reached a point further away than NASA probe Pioneer 10, which launched in 1972.
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If an object floating through space passes near the line of sight between the earth and a distant star, its gravity should, according to the theory of relativity, bend and focus the light from that star.
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