Active galaxies emit jets of light - up to trillions of times more energetic than the light we see - and a blazar is one with a jet pointing toward the Earth.
Mary Ann and I weren't just five years apart, we were light-years apart.
And now, we can see a light -- the light of a new day on the horizon.
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At the time, it produced shots with the most detail and best low-light performance we'd ever experienced on any cameraphone, ever -- make no mistake, it took several years before CMOS-based shooters caught up.
It's what we call a light echo, an effect that we've seen around supernovas - stars that explode - and because of the vast scales involved, the speed of light is actually very slow.
This crisp, stunningly beautiful sight is not something we get to enjoy in light-flooded Sydney.
While the royal party have lunch at Castle College in Stornoway, we pile into a nine-seater light aircraft and set off with a carrier bag of ham and chicken sandwiches.
After I explained what we were doing, it was like a light bulb went on and we had an ah-ha moment on our hands.
As a friend once said to me, because we are dual-natured, the best we can do is to lean toward the light.
We can work on overcoming the darkness we see around us with little light-giving things.
"The sale of W New Orleans-French Quarter helps advance Starwood's asset-light strategy, as we continue to pursue opportunities to sell owned real estate at the right time to the right owners, " said Simon Turner, Starwood's president of global development.
That bit of trickery works because the light can be manipulated when the material is shaped with features about as big as the light's wavelength - less than a millionth of a metre for light that we can see.
Not the usual light-hearted fare that we aim for, but sometimes topical, newsy stuff yields good quotes.
Properties of photons - particles of light - have already been teleported across the River Danube and he predicts that we will be teleporting molecules within the decade, and eventually to the moon.
But consider what happens when the power goes out -- when, without warning, we lose artificial light.
We played a house-rules version that was extremely light on rules and very heavy on storytelling and DM adjudication.
There was also no light-blocking on the devices we demoed, so there's a lot of interference coming from the sides.
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We pumped it up -- it almost hit that light. (Laughter.) I thought it was a lot of fun. (Laughter.) And while the canon was impressive, Joey left a bigger impression because he had already printed out his own business cards -- he was 14-years-old.
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Leading scientists, artists, academics and public policy makers will share their experiences and ideas on how light can change the world from revolutionising medicine using cutting-edge technologies and bringing light to communities without electricity, to transforming the places we live with amazing art installations and ground-breaking building design.
The universe is pretty transparent to optical light--that's how we can see far away galaxies.
Those afternoons the light died quickly and we talked nearly non-stop, race-walking into the wind.
Over a light reggae sound, we get a self-pitying tale about not fitting in: of not being about to "tell foe or friend".
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Cerny next unveiled the DualShock 4, which looks an awful lot like the leaks we saw recently -- it features a touchpad, a light bar, and what looks like rubberized grips.
What we're talking about here -- the speed of light --is a million times faster, and is opening the door to a complete rethinking of what we mean by, and can do with, photography.
Simply repeating the claims of a few in the industry, who fear that we are moving away from the disastrous era of light-touch regulation, falls short of the independent analysis that your readers have a right to expect.
It is right that we re-look at any investment in this area in the light of the current debate between clinical groups.
"Two or three days before the incident with which we are concerned, he was worried about burglars and light-fingered pykies, " she said.
So we are excited to bring our blog to Forbes, where we can continue teaching valuable information in an entertaining and light-hearted way.
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We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions.
While Mr. Kelly said the races wouldn't be canceled, he said "we are certainly evaluating, or re-evaluating them, in light of the event that took place" in Boston.
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