Sentences with phrase «brighter than the dust»

However, at those wavelengths, stars glow 10,000 times brighter than the dust.

Not exact matches

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 high detection rate found at this bright level suggests that there must be a significant number of systems containing fainter dust, undetectable in our survey, but still much brighter than the Solar System's zodiacal dust,» explains Olivier Absil, co-author of the paper, from the University of Liège.

These sand grains are coarser and less reflective than the fine dust that gives the brighter regions of Mars their ruddy appearance.

Picture distant blue stars brighter than the full moon at night, shining through the spidery veins of dust and gas that hang through the nebula like cobwebs.

Surprisingly, this dust gives off the brightest infrared radiation in the solar system (except for the sun's), some 300 times brighter than Earth's.

This indicates it is a cloud of gas and dust rather than a star, they say, because a star is so hot that it should be brighter at the shorter wavelength.

Particles in the rings are on average much brighter than Chariklo's surface because they often collide, exposing fresh, bright ice; meanwhile, Chariklo itself continues to accumulate dust, he suggests.

Dust is 20 times brighter at 353 GHz than at the 150 GHz searched by BICEP2.

It may also explain why other bodies in the Kuiper belt are unusually bright, the researchers say: Fresh ice is typically much brighter than an ancient stagnant surface on which dust and substances produced by interactions with sunlight or other radiation have built up through the ages.

Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the researchers identified a disc - shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the sun, located 360 light years away in the Centaurus constellation.

Researchers found that the size of the dust particles in the inner 22 au gap is smaller than in the other bright regions and guess that a planet similar to Neptune is located in this gap.

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.

Even though I chose one of the brighter shades (a risky move, if you saw my polar - vortex - pale skin), it applied as though I was dusting powder over my cheek, rather than just piling up bright pigment on my skin.