How To Use fixed star In A Sentence
- What they are probably thinking is that the imaginary line mentioned above from the earth to the sun sweeps out a full circle in one year; this is called a sidereal year: the time it takes for the sun to appear in the same place against the backdrop of the fixed stars. A Great Leap…Forward?
- Fixed stars continued to be used as reference points throughout the Middle Ages, and even Copernicus measured positions in a sidereal zodiac beginning from the fixed star Mesartim.
- The next of the fixed stars and the brightest in all the heavens is that which we call _Sirius_ or the Dog Star. Marvels of Modern Science
- Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic. Witch-Doctors
- Third, the planet brightness stabilizes very much, the sort can not glimmer like fixed star indeterminate.
- Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star. Letter XVII-On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton’s Chronology
- And it's equally true now, even though satellites have taken over from sextants, the Sun and fixed stars as the navigation aids of choice.
- In the study of the fixed stars Secchi distinguished himself not only by the invention of new instruments (heliospectroscope, star spectroscope, telespectroscope), but especially by the discovery of what are known as the five Secchi types of stars deduced from about 4000 spectra of stars, on which he had been at work since 1863. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- It is an established convention to speak of the fixed stars as a standard reference frame.
- The scientific controversy is beyond me, but I can recognize the fixed stare, the strained voice-throb and the rigid jaw of a madman at a hundred paces.
