Sentences with phrase «brightest object in the sky»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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...

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.

CENTAURUS A This disturbed object is one of the brightest galaxies in the X-ray sky.

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.

The night's three brightest objects form a triangle low in the sky just after sunset.

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.

Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky on a scale of apparent magnitude — the brighter the object, the greater the negative number; the dimmer, the greater the positive number.

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?

Its bright illumination makes stars and planets appear less conspicuous to naked - eye observers, and washes out delicate details in deep - sky objects for those peering through telescopes.

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.

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.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

Scorpius X-1, (catalog number Sco X-1), brightest X-ray source in the sky, the first such object discovered in the direction of the constellation Scorpius.

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 skIn 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 skin the Kuiper Belt where our sun is no more than a bright pinprick in the skin the sky.

The Orion Nebula Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) is the brightest starforming, and the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, and also one of the brightest deepsky objects at all.

Located in a South Polar region of the sky that lacks bright stars above 5th magnitude and other interesting objects, Constellation Mensa was named by the Abbé [Abbot] Nicholas Louis de La Caille (1713 - 1762).

This cloud is the bright Milky Way patch slightly above the center of our image; among many other Deep Sky objects (clusters and nebulae) one can find 10 more Messier objects in this image.

Measured colors (essentially the ratio of how bright objects appear in different wavelength filters) for objects detected in the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Infrared Deep Sky Survey that passed researchers» initial selection criteria (shown by the dashed lines).

The constellation is known for the Great Square of Pegasus, a familiar asterism in the northern sky, as well as for a number of bright stars and deep sky objects, among them Messier 15 (NGC 7078, Cumulo de Pegaso), Stephan's Quintet of galaxies, the Einstein Cross (a gravitationally lensed quasar), and the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 7742.

Oh, sure, Venus and the moon and one or two other very bright objects may peep through the bruise of the night sky, but the full glory of heavens is lost to us in cities and towns because of light pollution.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a technique used in digital photography as a method of dealing with scenes that include both bright and dark areas, such as an object in shadow in front of a bright sky.