What's the difference between astral and astronomical?
Astral
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.
Example Sentences:
(1) When a strong solution of the antimicrotubule drug, MBC, was applied at anaphase A, tubulin immunocytochemistry showed that both astral and spindle microtubules were destroyed completely in less than a minute.
(2) The antimicrotubule drug, methylbenzimidazole-2-ylcarbamate (MBC), destroyed astral microtubules and virtually eliminated intra-astral motility in vivo, whereas the antiactin drug, cytochalasin E, did not greatly affect the frequency of intra-astral motility episodes.
(3) The formation of the astral mitotic spindle is initiated at the time of nuclear envelope breakdown from an interaction between the replicated spindle poles (i.e.
(4) Shorter astral fibers, however, remained present in the enlarged ARB; presumably these had not been cut by the irradiation.
(5) After stopping the drug action the astral microtubules appear, but no other patterns of normalization in the mitotic apparatus occur.
(6) During the cytochalasin B treatment, either in bipolar or multipolar metaphases, there are destructions in the ultrastructure of the mitotic apparatus: there are no astral microtubules; in the poles there are diplosomes and duplex of centrioles with fibrillar material around both centrioles; kinetochores are of prometaphase type.
(7) A second subsystem, called ASTRAL, has been developed for the high-resolution Evans & Sutherland PS300 colour graphics terminal and is designed to manipulate complex display structures.
(8) When treated with taxol, the oocyte spindle became astral and microtubules appeared in the cortex of the oocyte in the form of small strands or bundles.
(9) The existence, structural basis and function of astral forces that are active during anaphase B in the fungus, Nectria haematococca, were revealed by experiments performed on living cells.
(10) Disruption of either the astral microtubules or actin function resulted in improper spindle orientation in approximately 40-50% of the cells.
(11) Both polarization and electron microscopy showed a substantial loss of non-kinetochore spindle microtubules with an increase in astral microtubules: this was particularly evident in the region adjacent to the spindle domain.
(12) Astral and kinetochore MTs were sensitive to MT disassembly conditions, and shortening of kinetochore MTs always accompanied reactivation of anaphase A. Interphase and interzonal spindle MTs were relatively stable to cold and calcium until extraction of cells was promoted by longer periods in the PM, or by higher concentrations of detergent.
(13) In sections of dividing sea urchin eggs detailed images of spindle and astral fibers were revealed.
(14) Five Leaves Left is one of those albums that seem tied to exhorting and then playing on a particular mood in the listener – like Astral Weeks and Forever Changes certainly and arguably stationed on that particular echelon of creativity (though I wouldn’t personally like to enter into that particular argument).
(15) Tilda Swinton was recently reported to be in talks to play the Ancient One, a mystical Tibetan mentor to Strange whose traditional powers include astral projection, teleportation and the ability to create energy blasts.
(16) In the case of nocodazole and colcemid, non-kinetochore astral microtubules were depleted first and the kinetochore-to-pole distance shortened.
(17) It's a sign of Monáe's otherness that the closest comparison people could find for her, back in 2010, was one of pop's more astral figures.
(18) This is the first report of intra-astral motility of organelles in a fungus, and it lays the foundation for additional studies of aster function in vivo.
(19) Beads appeared to move along astral fibers, were generally excluded from the spindle proper, and accumulated at the spindle poles.
(20) The astral shape becomes more pronounced during mitosis, after which the cytasters regress, but retain the mature centrioles.
Astronomical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(2) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(3) Askap will also help astronomers investigate one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: dark energy.
(4) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(5) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(6) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
(7) Speaking at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington, he said: “When I was younger, a trillion was an astronomic number.
(8) Estimates of what we will be able to see will improve over the next few days as astronomers track the comet's progress.
(9) We've tried very hard to get women and black astronomers and engineers into the programme.
(10) Those found around the nearest sun-like stars are the most interesting to astronomers.
(11) Between the 10-year projection of a half million FTE nursing shortage, astronomical medical care costs and a lingering recession, nursing administrators have no option but to make difficult choices in resource allocation.
(12) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.
(13) Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
(14) The site also allows astronomers to study objects such as the Magellanic clouds, which can only be seen in the skies of the southern hemisphere.
(15) People sitting out in the desert aren’t talking amongst themselves about how, ‘Joe Bloggs received a mandatory sentences for a ‘three strike’ burglary, I better not do the same thing’.” Collins said the legislation would compound recidivism rates for Aboriginal people in WA jails, rates which he said were already “astronomically high”.
(16) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(17) But at the same time it just proved how significant Meerkat has become.” Meerkat’s rise has been astronomical.
(18) Astronomers rank the planets by scoring them on three different scales.
(19) "The odds of you as an individual being hit by this are around one in 20 trillion," Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society told the BBC.
(20) The astronomical profits these companies and their cohorts continue to earn from digging up and burning fossil fuels cannot continue to haemorrhage into private coffers.