Sentences with phrase «background stars in»

We note that the population of background stars in CoRoT is 3 mag fainter than those of Brown.

Many stars without water were also detected, and these are background stars in the Milky Way.

If the foreground star happens to have any planets orbiting it, these will distort and dim the light from the background star in a noticeable way as well, which will help astronomers measure some of their basic properties, like their mass and orbital period.

Not exact matches

The tune of «When You Wish Upon a Star» plays in the background as well, building until its finish.

Country star Jason Aldean is calling for more gun control in the form of background checks, claiming that «it's too easy to get guns.»

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White background means to output, as explained in the theory of 9 stars.

But when the movie credits roll, we will either find ourselves in bed alone or with our less - than - perfect spouse sans the advantages of professional lighting, flattering camera angles or an original star - studded soundtrack playing in the background.

The camera tilts up crazily from his face into a sky full of swirling stars as the title score swells in the background and the name of the film appears on the screen.

How about cosmic microwave background radiation, time dilation in supernovae light curves, the Hubble deep field, the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, the Integrated Sachs - Wolfe effect, the hom.ogeneity of stars and galaxies, etc, etc...

The flatness of the soffit is relieved by gold - stenciled stars on a blue background, reminiscent of the central dome of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna (early 5th century).

Although I've incorporated avocado in desserts on Girl Cooks World several times before (here and here), I thought it was about time they were given a starring role, rather than being a background ingredient providing texture and body.

Lombardo's statement may not hold the truth behind what is going on in the background, but if the recent rumours are to be believed then you will have to decide whether to believe that Arsenal are willing to activate Higuain's ridiculously high release clause ahead of Juventus, or that Arsenal are willing to offer $ 50 million plus Giroud for the Napoli star.

San Clemente, Calif. (JSerra Catholic) 10/23/1995 (age 22.5) # 8 BACKGROUND: A three - star athlete recruit out of high school, Dante Pettis was a four - sport star at Junipero Serra Catholic, spending his time balancing baseball, basketball, football and track — set the Orange County record in the long - jump (24» 07»), running a personal - best 21.84 in the 200 - meters.

Using a couple of the locals and a few props in the background, the young star hash tagged his way through a weird choice of words.

I'd like to drag these stars from the stage for a minute and focus on those in the background.

With a background in the sport, Christine Ohuruogu could lead a netball dream team of track and field stars, but who would make the squad?

The flag is a red star, in a yellow circle, in a green ring, on a red background.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

I don't want to mention too many names but Karen Bradley (formerly of the Tory policy unit), Philippa Stroud (because of her lifelong commitment to social justice), Liz Truss (a radical thinker on public sector reform), Harriett Baldwin (because of her knowledge of the financial world) and Fiona Bruce (because of her legal and business background) are just five stars - in - the - waiting.

Composite photo of the slowest - spinning neutron star discovered so far (9 - 2016): background stars photographed in optical wavelengths; colorful cloud is the supernova remnant RCW 103, photographed in X-ray wavelengths, with the white neutron star at its center.

The background sky here in a rich part of the Milky Way is very crowded with stars.

Coupled with software to reduce assorted stellar background noise, it could measure light changes down to 20 parts per million, making it more than sensitive enough to detect an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star in an orbit as large as Earth's.

So when a dim star in our galaxy passes almost directly between Earth and a second star, the gravitational field of the intervening «lens» star bends and magnifies light from the background star, a process called gravitational microlensing.

«In a way, the stochastic background is the hardest thing to detect, but also the one which would offer you the most insight, because black holes and neutron stars are kind of old hat,» says Bruce Allen, a LIGO team member and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

When you see the satellite as a line against a background of stars, it is due to the object's motion in the sky during a long exposure.

The clouds resemble smoke billowing across a background of millions of stars, but in fact these clouds are a dark nebula.

Small primordial ripples in the structure of spacetime, which can be seen in the cosmic microwave background, grew to colossal scale and led to the formation of stars, galaxies, and other structures.

Once in space, the two will go their separate ways: Planck to study in detail the cosmic microwave background, and Herschel to spy on the cool gas and dust clouds that are the nurseries of stars and galaxies.

And with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s, the big bang theory of the universe's birth assumed the starring role on the cosmological stage — providing cosmologists with one big answer and many new questions.

So a number of observational projects have taken a different tack, trying to identify small KBOs by monitoring background stars for sudden dips in brightness that might result from a distant object crossing the line of sight between the star and Earth.

Thus, at a distance of 700 million light - years — not very far on a cosmic scale — it is barely observable through the background glow of stars in our own galaxy.

«It's very difficult to see these faint moving objects in front of thousands and thousands of background stars,» Parker says.

By precisely locating the same stars in Andromeda in 2002 and then again in 2010, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have calculated how the galaxy has moved against the background of deep space — confirming that the galaxy's sideways motion is but a fraction of the speed at which it's hurtling toward the Milky Way.

To discover the tails, astronomers had to carefully filter out the countless stars and background galaxies in the field of view that did not match the expected colors and brightnesses of globular cluster members.

Despite being remarkable in its own right — it has bright bursts of star formation and recorded supernova explosions — it blends into the background somewhat thanks to the gloriously bright star hogging the limelight next to it.

«Planetary targets move with respect to the stars in the background.

Background Astronomers can figure out what distant stars are made of (in other words, their atomic composition) by seeing what type of light the star produces.

In the background is the star's binary companion, Kepler - 13B, and the third member of the multiple - star system is the orange dwarf star Kepler - 13C.

For the most part, the stars lie along four spiral arms (artist's representation of the Milky Way, background image), the researchers report online today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Data collected with the Hubble Space Telescope is helping astronomers map dark matter in space along with X-ray pictures of colliding galaxies, measurements of cosmic background radiation, and analysis of the way stars on the ends of galactic arms rotate.

When the dwarf, named Stein 2051 B, passed in front of another star from Earth's perspective, Sahu's team followed the position of the background star.

Next they ruled out a false positive, usually caused by an eclipsing binary - star system in the background, with two relatively small telescopes on the ground, which offer better spatial resolution than COROT does.

As we talked, Star Trek: The Next Generation ran on, soundless, in the background.

The ATA can observe a wide range of wavelengths, so it can check stars in the foreground for ETI signals while it watches background galaxies for clouds of atomic hydrogen.

This means that in 2014 and 2016 Proxima Centauri will pass in front of two background stars that are along its path.

Astronomers will measure the mass by examining images of each of the background stars to see how far the stars are offset from their real positions in the sky.

Such minute variations in these quantities are required to explain the way in which stars and galaxies clump together and the detailed properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

«Among those interested in the microwave background, [Weiss] was suddenly one of their stars.»

Astronomers might even spot free - floating planets through gravitational lensing, in which the planet's gravity magnifies light from a background star.