Sentences with phrase «'s a faint halo»

While the bright part of the nebula is of about 65 arc seconds in diameter (more accurately, the «cork» is about 42x87», the «wings» 157x87»), this nebula is surrounded by a faint halo covering a region of 290 arc seconds in diameter (Millikan, 1974); this material was probably ejected in the form of stellar winds from the central star when it was still in the Red Giant phase of evolution.

This planetary nebula is certainly the most impressive object of its kind in the sky, as the angular diameter of the luminous body is nearly 6 arc minutes, with a faint halo extensing out to over 15», half the apparent diameter of the Moon (Millikan 1974).

Or, as in the example below, there's a faint halo around the head as it separates foreground from background.

And where even ultra HD LCD sets can bleed light and create faint halos around bright objects on the screen, the LG OLED delivered clean, sharp lines without any blooming or blurring.

Not exact matches

«This discovery implies hundreds of faint dwarf satellites waiting to be discovered in the halo of the Milky Way,» he said.

The mysterious mass of the halo of at least one galaxy thus comes from relatively dim bulbs that were simply too faint for earlier generations of instruments to detect.

The glow seemed consistent with the size and shape of the matter needed to make ngc 5907 spin the way it does, so astronomers hoped that this might be the first sign that the dark halos were made of ordinary stars and planets — albeit faint ones — rather than exotic, yet - to - be discovered particles.

It has a bright core surrounded by a faint but extensive halo of stars.

Unusually faint for its spectral type, Groombridge 1830 is a yellow - orange halo subdwarf star of spectral and luminosity type sdG8p / VI.

When SagDEG will be disrupted after the current encounter, M54 and the other at least three globulars of this dwarf (Arp 2, Terzan 7 and Terzan 8, which are all much fainter than M54) will be the «remnants», while the other stars will be spread over the galactic halo, or escape as intergalactic travelers.

We obtain new MIR and FIR images of M82, which reveal both faint extended emission in the halo and very bright emission in the center with signal dynamic ranges as large as five and three orders of magnitude for the MIR and FIR, respectively.

The expansive white ground reverberates with an exquisite tint of pink, appearing as though the red of the circle seeped slowly out by osmosis to the porous surface area surrounding it, balanced at the other pole by extended halos of faint blue that saturate the white around Gottlieb's brushstrokes.