Whillans drill camp sits 380 miles from the South Pole, a constellation of faint dots nearly invisible through the membrane of mist that often cloaks West Antarctica during the summer. (discovermagazine.com)
For incontestable evidence that each faint dot spotted is an intergalactic globular cluster, Hanes says ground telescopes will need to gather precise details on each cluster's velocity, to confirm they are not actually orbiting galaxies. (sciencemag.org)
A habitable world would be a faint dot lost in the overpowering glare of its larger, 10 billion times brighter star. (scientificamerican.com)