Sentences with phrase «brightest object in»

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.

The object is also the brightest object in the Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt other than Pluto itself.

This snow reflects sunlight, making Enceladus the brightest object in the solar system.

Why does the second - brightest object in the night sky get so little respect?

It will pop into view: Venus, the third - brightest object in the daytime sky.

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.

It will remain, after Venus, the second - brightest object in the sky through early summer.

We knew it had an extremely bright surface — it's the brightest object in the solar system.

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.

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...

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.

Consequently, bright objects in the field of view become saturated and appear artificially large.

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.

Some images have even caught bright objects in the gullies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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 non-linear response can make dark objects in bright backgrounds look smaller than bright objects in dark backgrounds.

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.

Saturn (left) and Mars are the 2 bright objects in...

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 sightingIn 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 sightingin 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.