"distance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After all, fifty kilometres was not even a hair's breadth, as cosmic distances went.
- The asteroid Apollo came within two million miles, very close as cosmic distances go, back in 1932.
- It might still be half a million miles away - but its movement proved that, as cosmic distances went, it was almost near enough to touch.
- Some say the bursts are at cosmic distances.
- Thus, if their light is carefully analyzed, these explosions should make ideal "standard candles" for measuring cosmic distances.
- The astronomers were using a new yardstick for measuring cosmic distances.
- Two similar planets are circling about the same glaring white sun at a scant cosmic distance where entirely different conditions prevail.
- Thus this category of supernovae has become highly useful as a standard candle for measuring cosmic distances.
- It may be "short" as cosmic distances go, but there comes a time when the circuit breakers in your skull trip out from overload.
- Much of the variance is due to the great difficulty of measuring cosmic distances.
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