But they also depend on how far away it is, how fast it is drifting by, and how close it is to the line of sight.
CMB, it is possible to deduce how far away they are, and thus how old the universe is.
Adrian Coomber, mayor of Carterton, said numbers vary based on how far away a soldier's regiment is based and how many ceremonies take place in a single day.
Your phone triangulates itself based on how far away you are from certain wi-fi hotspots.
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"This tournament is crucial in telling us how far away England are, " said Sheens.
She was asked how far away from her mother she lived and said about five minutes walk away.
Really, just how far away are the places Kirk and crew travel to?
When a signal bounces back from the GPS-enabled device on the Earth, it can tell exactly how far away that device is.
Until 1997, no one even knew how far away these explosions were.
Using an app, 3PD's customers will be able to look up how far away a delivery is from arriving, says Will O'Shea, chief sales and marketing officer.
Track-The Proximo App dashboard keeps track of up to five items, including a customizable active proximity meter, so you always know how far away you are from them.
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When objects are described with mathematically defined curves, however, the computer can decide how many polygons to draw, depending on how far away the object is meant to be.
The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).
To close this series, the final segment will look at what it would take for electric cars to really become affordable replacements to gasoline-powered vehicles and how far away such a breakthrough might be.
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The conventional wisdom says that the ideal viewing distance (how far away you sit from the TV) is 1.5 to 2.5 times the screen size, but who cares about convention when the Super Bowl is on?
Seager called the discovery of the three planets "a huge milestone, " but her excitement is tempered because potentially habitable planets have been announced in the past and there's currently no way to get more details, given how far away they are.
Jon Sopel: Well how far are we away from this because there are all sorts of offers being put forward and they seem to get rejected, and it seems that there is no consistency around the country, with what you're trying to do.
The universe is pretty transparent to optical light--that's how we can see far away galaxies.
That is perhaps a measure of how far they have drifted away from those they need to attract.
Europe remains the single biggest overhang on the market, even with the looming deadline for the U.S. Supercommittee to produce major deficit cuts just a week away and little clarity on how near or far Congress is from a deal.
Knief had spent a portion of her trip examining libraries in Florida and Louisiana, and she had walked away feeling pleased with how Kern County's far-flung network of seventy-one branches, many of which she had single-handedly expanded, stacked up by comparison.
Nobody, including officials of the government and power companies, knows how far we really need to be be away from the plant.
Gen Evren's indictment carries great symbolic significance in Turkey, our correspondent says, demonstrating how far the balance of power has shifted away from the once untouchable military establishment.
Riess and colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure supernovae that are very far away, showing that dark energy must be responsible for how the universe appears to expand faster and faster.
The retweet was far from inflammatory: Attitude can take away your beauty no matter how good looking you are or it could enhance your beauty, making you adorable.
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So, in other words, if we judge society by how well it serves the poor, then free enterprise is far and away the greatest anti-poverty program known to man.
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Lots of middle-class liberals came from as far away as California and New York to show first-time voters how to use punch-card machines, and to keep an eye open for any signs of voter intimidation.
"I think the lack of oversight so far away may be too much for these banks to handle, considering how badly they've handled overseeing their own staff, " says Ira Rheingold, executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
They taught me that punishment would not go away, but would be far less severe if I told the truth about what happened and how or why I veered off the charted course.
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