Saturn (left) and Mars are the 2
bright objects in...
This non-linear response can make dark objects in bright backgrounds look smaller than
bright objects in dark backgrounds.
This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe — protons, neutrons and electrons — unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other
bright objects in space.
The first clue that supermassive black holes exist was the discovery several decades ago of quasars — extremely
bright objects in the centres of distant galaxies.
Some images have even caught
bright objects in the gullies.
Consequently,
bright objects in the field of view become saturated and appear artificially large.
Just because that something is the second
brightest object in the night sky and you've probably seen it just about every single night of your entire life is no excuse for not saying something.
Just because that something is the second
brightest object in the night sky and you've probably seen it just about every single night of your entire life is no excuse...
Jupiter is usually the fourth
brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus); however at times Mars appears brighter than Jupiter.
Quasars are
the brightest objects in the Universe.
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.
We knew it had an extremely bright surface — it's
the brightest object in the solar system.
It will remain, after Venus, the second -
brightest object in the sky through early summer.
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.
The brightest object in a nearby star cluster, thought for decades to be a single star, is actually two massive stars in the process of merging.
Previous research suggested these giants release extraordinarily large amounts of light when they rip apart stars and devour matter, and likely are the driving force behind quasars, which are among
the brightest objects in the universe.
It will pop into view: Venus, the third -
brightest object in the daytime sky.
Why does the second -
brightest object in the night sky get so little respect?
Bañados was looking in particular for quasars — some of
the brightest objects in the universe, that consist of a supermassive black hole surrounded by swirling, accreting disks of matter.
The accretion disks around supermassive black holes (black holes with masses millions of times that of the Sun) are some of
the brightest objects in the Universe.
(In fact, monster black holes at the centers of galaxies can cause matter around them to radiate so much light that they become some of
the brightest objects in the universe.)
Most of
the brightest objects in this picture are galaxies.
This snow reflects sunlight, making Enceladus
the brightest object in the solar system.
The Hyades cluster is
a bright object in Taurus, but the view is partially ruined by Aldebaran - a brilliant orange giant star that lies in front of the cluster at less than half the distance.
The object is also
the brightest object in the Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt other than Pluto itself.
Partial solar eclipses are hazardous to view because the eye's pupil is not adapted to the unusually high visual contrast: the pupil dilates according to the total amount of light in the field of view, not by
the brightest object in the field.
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.
An examination of Zuckerberg's management approach reveals that his success rests on three pillars: his unique ability to look into the future, his otherworldly consistency, and the business discipline he has nurtured
in an industry quite often enamored of
bright, shiny
objects.
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.»
BLOCK: Well, the appropriately named Matthew Brightman, of Lyndhurst, Ohio, writes this: thank you for telling me what those two immensely
bright objects are
in the sky.
More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the
object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how
bright the
object is
in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.
He walked down the road to another telescope and asked astronomers there what they would say about an
object that
bright appearing
in the Large Magellanic Cloud, just outside the Milky Way.
I love the color contrast
in this image, the fact that we're seeing entirely different populations of
objects, and also the simple idea that this is such a strange view of the Andromeda galaxy, a huge spiral so
bright and close it's easily visible to the unaided eye from a dark site.
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.
Hubble captured images of the galaxy
in visible and infrared light, witnessing a new
bright object within NGC 4993 that was
brighter than a nova but fainter than a supernova.
This «gravitational lensing» causes the supernova's light to appear
brighter and sometimes
in multiple locations, if the light rays travel different paths around the massive
object.
It is one of the
brightest and most massive
objects in the early universe.
If one of the
objects happened to pass directly
in front of a
bright star, the dark interloper's gravity would temporarily bend and amplify the light.
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.
With the help of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German - led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of
object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and exhibiting comet - like features, including a
bright coma and a long tail.
CENTAURUS A This disturbed
object is one of the
brightest galaxies
in the X-ray sky.
In 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted a
bright object orbiting the star Fomalhaut.
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 ones.
Preliminary orbital calculations suggested that the
object had come from the approximate direction of the
bright star Vega,
in the northern constellation of Lyra.
The night's three
brightest objects form a triangle low
in the sky just after sunset.
These initial observations suggested that the apparently faint
object was
in fact both extremely
bright and extremely distant.
A strange green blob
in the nearby universe may be a «light echo» from a long - dead quasar — an extremely
bright object powered by a colossal black hole.
In terms of brilliance for size, Venus is by far the mostluminous object in the night sky, so bright it will no doubt inspire aflood of UFO sighting
In terms of brilliance for size, Venus is by far the mostluminous
object in the night sky, so bright it will no doubt inspire aflood of UFO sighting
in the night sky, so
bright it will no doubt inspire aflood of UFO sightings.
When we discovered the Kuiper belt
object called Santa
in December of» 04, we went crazy — this was the
brightest thing we'd ever seen.