However, they eventually pupate and turn into Purple Sproingers, floating jellyfish-like creatures which the Gorgs admire as beautiful creatures of the skies ( much in the same way that humans look upon caterpillars and butterflies ).

The Virginia valley in turn took its name from the Indian word meaning " daughter of the skies.

In Pope's poem, women who are full of spleen and vanity turn into sylphs when they die because their spirits are too full of dark vapors to ascend to the skies.

Fort portrays them as quack prophets, sententiously pointing towards the skies — inaccurately, as events turn out.

When the skies grew dark and thunder rolled across the valley, he was unafraid.

The Coalsack Nebula is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, easily visible to the naked eye as a prominent dark patch in the southern Milky Way.

It can even be seen with the naked eye under particularly dark skies.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that he was " a legend and a symbol in his own time ", and that he " challenged the dark skies of intolerance and frustration.

Another strong appearance of the Leonids in 1868 reached an intensity of 1000 per hour in dark skies.

The Double Cluster of h + Chi Persei can also be prominent under dark skies.

His pavilion is dark waters and thick clouds of the skies!

The ideal locations for modern observatories are sites that have dark skies, a large percentage of clear nights per year, dry air, and are at high elevations.

Whereas in the comics, Krypton was colorful and bright, in Superman, the planet was envisioned as having stark white terrain of jagged frozen plateaus, stretching broadly under heavy, dark skies ( becoming redder as their sun grew toward becoming supernova ), prompting Jor-El to attempt to persuade the immediate evacuation of the entire planet to the council of elders, to avoid perishing in the cataclysm, to no avail.

The Hyades are unrelated to two other nearby stellar groups, the Pleiades and the Ursa Major Stream, which are easily visible to the naked eye under clear dark skies.

Yucca Valley is proud of their clean air, dark night skies, spectacular vistas and casual lifestyle.

Travelocity has called Captiva's dark star filled skies and sunsets " the most romantic in all America.

He had been searching for comets for years and had moved to Kagoshima Prefecture partly for the dark skies in nearby rural areas.

At the start of it, the skies got dark as a great swarm of locusts shaded the sun as they invaded the land.

He discovered that bees can recognize the desired compass direction in three different ways: by the sun, by the polarization pattern of the blue sky, and by the earth ’ s magnetic field, whereby the sun is used as the main compass, with the alternatives reserved for the conditions arising under cloudy skies or within a dark beehive.

The Coalsack Dark Nebula ( or simply the Coalsack ) is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, easily visible to the naked eye as a dark patch silhouetted against the southern Milky Way.

The location is ideal because of its dark skies, good astronomical seeing, low humidity and position above most of the water vapor in the atmosphere, clean air, good weather and almost equatorial location.

In 2007, the International Dark-Sky Association named Natural Bridges the first International Dark-Sky Park, which is a designation that recognizes not only that the park has some of the darkest and clearest skies in all of the United States, but also that the park has made every effort to conserve the natural dark as a resource worthy of protection.

Binoculars and telescopes with large fields of view ( approximately 3 °) will show it as a foggy patch of light under sufficiently dark skies.

However, using a UHC filter, which filters out some unwanted wavelengths of light, it can be seen by the naked eye under dark skies.

Thetford is also the site for the UK's Star Party, as it is centrally located in a rural area with dark night skies.

Throughout the daytime, particularly when the skies are free of clouds, urban surfaces are warmed by the absorption of solar radiation.

Relative to clear skies, clouds reduce the global mean radiative forcing due to CO < sub > 2 </ sub > by about 15 %, that due to CH < sub > 4 </ sub > and N < sub > 2 </ sub > O by about 20 %, and that due to the halocarbons by up to 30 %.

When Indrajit realised that Lakshmana could not be won over, he started using his supreme magical powers, darting across the clouds and skies like a bolt of lightning.

That morning, low stratus clouds overspread much of Oklahoma, with clear skies along and west of a dry line located from Gage to Childress, Texas.

Sylphs could create giant artistic clouds in the skies with their airy wings.

A blue filter mimics the effect of older orthochromatic film, or even older film sensitive only to blue light, rendering blue as light and red and green as dark, showing blue skies as overcast with no contrast between sky and clouds, darkening blond hair, making blue eyes nearly white and red lips nearly black.

File: WeatherPitch. jpg | The All-Weather Pitch or " Cage ", here pictured on a dull day with ominous clouds darkening the skies overhead, is used in the production of senior footballers of the calibre of Michael Murphy, Neil Gallagher, and Colm McFadden.

Vampires also possess magical abilities which they use to destroy foes, and cover the sunny skies with clouds while marching to war.

The fog and clouds, which are formed by the marine layer, move in at night, usually after midnight, and typically dissipate in the late morning, giving way to clear, sunny skies.

He often retouched his negatives to blank out buildings and trees, or to put clouds in white skies ; in one print from 1851, he pieced together fragments of 10 different negatives to create a composite print of the medieval cloister of St. Trophime, in Arles.

No clouds marred the skies ... when the ornate Guild escort craft descended, had noted the flotilla of weather satellites, climate-bending technology that — through brute force — kept Kaitain a peaceful and serene place.

No clouds marred the skies ... when the ornate Guild escort craft descended, had noted the flotilla of weather satellites, climate-bending technology that — through brute force — kept Kaitain a peaceful and serene place ...

Notably different from many of Ruscha ’ s works of the same period, most obviously in its exclusion of text, his series of Miracle pastel drawings from in the mid-1970s show bright beams of light burst forth from skies with dark clouds.

Low-pressure systems are associated with clouds and precipitation that minimize temperature changes through the day, whereas high-pressure systems normally associated with dry weather and mostly clear skies with larger diurnal temperature changes due to greater radiation at night and greater sunshine during the day.

" and " The brightest star cannot shine through a cloud of dark smoke, and O is the darkest of clouds I have seen in our skies.

Unlike the related phenomenon associated with severe thunderstorms, cold-air funnels are generally associated with partly cloudy skies in the wake of cold fronts, where atmospheric instability and moisture is sufficient to support towering cumulus clouds but not precipitation.

" The eagle-stars, our Father's luminous creatures, hurl themselves into the lagoons and ... Nacawé's water serpents ... rise into the skies to shape the clouds ".

It does distort them but gives that wonderful quality — black skies with white clouds — and it changes the feeling and look of the scenes.

" As the clouds darkened and the skies thundered, the voice of Parsons grew louder and clearer, like bugle notes summoning the good men and true to battle.

On 3 July 1939, when war clouds were looming large over the skies of Asia, the college formally came into existence.

Max witnesses her revival and concludes that her purpose is as a light against the dark clouds which have slowly engulfed Planet Drool's skies.

In the highland corn fields near Mondoro, beneath Zimbabwe's big skies full of large birds, battleship clouds, and horsetail sunsets, Mujuru reaffirmed his ties to the mbira.