Sentences with phrase «captured faint light»

It takes highly sensitive (expensive) cameras to capture the faint light of, say, a distant galaxy.

Not exact matches

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.

* The faint light emitted can be captured by a mobile - phone camera, making it easy to share with clinicians — no complex lab equipment required.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

The galaxies are the smallest, faintest, and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe, and were captured by Hubble deep exposures taken in ultraviolet light, and confirmed using the mighty Keck I telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

While spectroscopy of extremely faint sources is not trivial the primary technology challenge, the «tall tent pole», is starlight suppression — blocking the bright light from the target star so as to capture the faint reflected light of the exoplanet.

Thus, any attempt to capture the faint Na light by long time - exposures would result in a highly blurred image.

To capture the faint signals from sodium atoms close to Io, the observers had to find a way to cope with the bright sunlight reflected from Io's surface, as well as from the even stronger light from nearby Jupiter.

In an ongoing series, Finch captures the changes in natural light on his studio wall through faint washes of paint — recalling Mondrian's concern with moments of transition, the captured half - lights of twilights and sunsets.