Sentences with phrase «dimming of distant stars»

The telescopes look for the slight dimming of distant stars that occurs as Kuiper belt objects momentarily pass in front of them.

Not exact matches

The cyclic dimming of more distant stars would be too faint for Kepler to measure.

A device called a coronagraph can be built into a telescope to block most of the photons from a distant star's glow, allowing the dim light from a planet to pass into the telescope's sensors and create a glare - free image.

Microlensing works on a much smaller scale: Individual stars or planets focus the light of more distant stars, making the background star appear to grow brighter and then dim again.

In the 1990s, observations of exploding stars showed that more distant explosions were dimmer than existing theories predicted.

The specifics to how Haumea dimmed the light of that distant star would be perfectly explained by a semi-transparent ring with a width of 70 kilometers (around 43 miles) and a radius of 2,287 kilometers (1,421 miles).