Sentences with phrase «faint objects like»

Faint objects like galaxies and globular clusters are clear to the naked eye from here; the night I visited, the night sky was bright enough to read by, the Milky Way was lit up like a celestial highway and faint meteors continually peppered the heavens.

Not exact matches

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects like neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

Astronomers would like to know the size distribution of all objects in the belt — information that would help describe the composition and collisional history of the objects — but today's telescopes simply can not pick out the faintest KBOs.

Maybe it was just large accumulations of dim but familiar objects, like extremely faint red stars or white dwarfs, some astronomers speculated.

There are also strange, «tadpole» - like objects, disturbed and apparently merging galaxies dubbed «train wrecks,» as well as a multitude of faint, «dwarf» galaxies.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).

While NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) failed to the tell - tale warmth of gas giants like Saturn within 10,000 AUs and larger than Jupiter objects out to 26,000 AUs (NASA / JPL news release), an icy «super-Earth», would have been too cold and faint for WISE to detect — even if the hypothesized planet has a small internal heat source and absorbs some sunlight.