Sentences with phrase «eye sky object»
If it succeeds, it will be a naked - eye sky object day and night.
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NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.
Faint objects like galaxies and globular clusters are clear to the naked eye from here; the night I visited, the night sky was bright enough to read by, the Milky Way was lit up like a celestial highway and faint meteors continually peppered the heavens.
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.
Going outside at night at one of these observatories and seeing the eyes of giant telescopes staring up at the sky, gathering in photons from distant objects, is an extraordinary experience.
By the second night, however, the object had faded in brightness to 30 million times fainter than the limit of visibility with the naked eye in Earth's night sky (Bhargavi et al, 2000).