Sentences with phrase «as bright objects»

Gentex says each pixel sets its own exposure and the headlamps appear as bright objects, but darker objects such as the outline of the car, or a pedestrian jogging at the side of the road, could also be visible.

They could have emerged from gamma - ray bursts, mysterious and short - lived cataclysms that briefly rank as the brightest objects in the universe; shock waves from exploding stars; or so - called blazars, jets of energy powered by supermassive black holes.

Not exact matches

In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

As the American Conservative's Matt Purple wrote, «Conservatives objected that leveraging kids in policy arguments was a lousy tactic — until they found a kid of their own: Kyle Kashuv, just as bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.&raquAs the American Conservative's Matt Purple wrote, «Conservatives objected that leveraging kids in policy arguments was a lousy tactic — until they found a kid of their own: Kyle Kashuv, just as bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.&raquas bright and eloquent as his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.&raquas his peers and a stout defender of the Second Amendment.»

However, I do object to bright people like Dawkins writing uncritical and abysmally researched polemic and then parading it as a respectable work.

These objects would appear as bright, miniature quasars shining through the early universe.

These bright, celestial objects serve as beacons across the sky, helping astronomers peer deep into space and calculate the size, shape and mass of the universe.

She told Disney she'd spotted standalone galaxy - like objects right where the Parkes survey had found gas clouds identified as merely extended parts of nearby bright galaxies.

This huge, dusky object forms a conspicuous silhouette against the bright, starry band of the Milky Way and for this reason the nebula has been known to people in the southern hemisphere for as long as our species has existed.

Given the redshift of the light from this stellar explosion — which occurred about 10 billion years ago, when the universe was one third its current size — the object appeared much brighter than it would have been if [dust filling intergalactic space simply made the supernovae appear dim, as some researchers had proposed].

The findings could also prove useful in optical systems, such as microscopes and telescopes, for viewing faint objects that are close to brighter objects — for example, a faint planet next to a bright star.

The OSSOS project uses powerful computers to hunt the images, and Kavelaars was presented with a bright object moving at such a slow rate that it was clearly at least twice as far from Earth Neptune and 120 times further from the Sun than Earth.

Each pair of objects is joined together by a similar structure represented as a bright horizontal band.

A team of researchers pointed the telescope at GK Persei, an object that became a sensation in the astronomical world in 1901 when it suddenly appeared as one of the brightest stars in the sky for a few days, before gradually fading away in brightness.

As a trade - off, however, bright objects such as Jupiter (now blazing in the west after sunset) and the moon often look crisper from muggy areas than from dry oneAs a trade - off, however, bright objects such as Jupiter (now blazing in the west after sunset) and the moon often look crisper from muggy areas than from dry oneas Jupiter (now blazing in the west after sunset) and the moon often look crisper from muggy areas than from dry ones.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

This nebula is visible as the bright blue object just to the left of the cluster's centre.

Astronomers studying distant objects call these stars «foreground stars» and they are often not very happy about them, as their bright light is contaminating the faint light from the more distant and interesting objects they actually want to study.

Despite the name, most black holes are among the brightest objects in the universe, because gas and other matter falling in is superheated and glows as it accretes.

Detailed analyses of light from the object suggest that, as seen from Earth, the binary system is seen edge on, with each bright blue star eclipsing the other on a regular basis.

For the radio waves to arrive as brightly as Schmidt saw them, after traveling that far, the object emitting them must be 100 times brighter than our entire galaxy.

Although the images are relatively low - resolution at just 6 meters per pixel, they reveal a bright object thought to be Schiaparelli's parachute, as well as a 15 - by -40-meter dark patch roughly one kilometer to the north of the parachute.

They are the locations of bright stars and other nearby objects that get in the way of the observations of more distant galaxies and are hence masked out in these maps as no weak - lensing signal can be measured in these areas.

Cygnus X-1 was found as part of a binary star system in which an extremely hot and bright star called a blue supergiant formed an accretion disk around an invisible object.

The artificial iris can close in seconds, but that will need to be sped up to the millisecond level for many applications, such as in sensitive cameras that could be ruined by being suddenly pointed at a bright object.

This distance then yielded the mass of the bright star as well as the dark object; the latter is so massive it can only be a black hole.

THE Milky Way's brightest satellite galaxy stands accused of the same crime as itself: tearing apart a celestial object that wandered too close.

Astronomers had been able to spot the signature of specific molecules in the early universe before, but those observations were mostly confined to extremely bright objects such as quasars.

Today, Sirius can be seen almost worldwide as the brightest star in the sky — excluding the sun — and the fourth brightest night - sky object after the moon, Venus and Jupiter.

With each pass of the sky, astronomers hope to gather more information about faraway, gamma - bright objects, watching them evolve as their gamma - ray emissions change over time.

It may be as large as 1,100 miles in diameter, and it has a mysterious deep red surface — neither particularly dark, like a typical rocky object, nor bright and icy like Pluto and other Kuiper belt objects.

As this cosmic stuff rubs together it produces friction and light, making black holes among the universe's brightest objects.

As the object turns, the aurorae — shown in this artist's conception as a bright ring around the top pole — come in and out of view, altering the amount of visible light and radio waves astronomers detecAs the object turns, the aurorae — shown in this artist's conception as a bright ring around the top pole — come in and out of view, altering the amount of visible light and radio waves astronomers detecas a bright ring around the top pole — come in and out of view, altering the amount of visible light and radio waves astronomers detect.

Then the heated ices sublime, producing a bright halo of glowing gas that trails behind the rock: the coma and the tail of a comet, which fade again as the object retreats past Neptune.

Unimaginably powerful sources of radio emissions, brighter than entire galaxies, quasars were initially viewed as mysterious objects found billions of light - years from us but unknown in our own galactic neighborhood.

Viewed from a planet at Earth's orbital distance around Alpha Centauri A, stellar companion B would provide more light than the full Moon does on Earth as its brightest night sky object, but the additional light at a distance greater than Saturn's orbital distance in the Solar System would not be significant for the growth of Earth - type life.

It was originally detected by its gravitational attraction on the larger, brighter star and only later observed visually as a faint object (now called Sirius B), about 10,000 times fainter than Sirius (now called Sirius A) or 500 times fainter than the Sun.

Abstract: Extremely red objects, identified in the early Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the bright - rimmed globule IC 1396A and photometrically classified as Class I protostars Class II T Tauri stars based on their mid-infrared colors, were observed spectroscopically at 5.5 to 38 microns (IRS), at the 22 GHz water maser frequency (GBT), and in the optical (Palomar).

The sources photometrically ide... ▽ More Extremely red objects, identified in the early Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the bright - rimmed globule IC 1396A and photometrically classified as Class I protostars Class II T Tauri stars based on their mid-infrared colors, were observed spectroscopically at 5.5 to 38 microns (IRS), at the 22 GHz water maser frequency (GBT), and in the optical (Palomar).

That far out, the only way a single round object could be as bright as 2003 UB313 would be if it is at least as large as Pluto and completely reflective.

On June 11, 2008, On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted at the meeting of its Executive Committee to establish bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune as a new class of substellar objects in the Solar System called «plutoids» (IAU press release).

The object stands out as extremely bright inside a large, chemically rich cloud of material, as shown in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Previously classed as spectral type M4.5 e (with emission lines), the object was observed to be four times brighter than would be expected for a dim red dwarf of that type based on a revised parallax measurement of its distance from the Solar System (Ken Croswell, Science@Now, September 6, 2011).

For an object to appear as bright as most quasars do at their calculated distances, it must emit more energy than several dozen galaxies put together.

In regards to this, Professor Ohta commented, «This is a big step towards getting the big picture of galaxy evolution as the objects connecting especially bright galaxies in millimeter / submillimeter waves and normal galaxies were detected with ALMA.»

In addition to taking 1,100 years to complete its orbit around the sun, the object is blisteringly chilly, which makes sense seeing as it's located in the Kuiper Belt where our sun is no more than a bright pinprick in the sky.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

In 1960, one of these bright radio - emitting objects was identified as a faint, bluish - looking «star» by astronomers using the 200 - inch telescope on Palomar Mountain in California.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

The lander is white because the data received from Mars were saturated at this location — that is, the lander was so much brighter than the surrounding terrain that the camera saw it as a white object.