Sentences with phrase «faint background»

The map was created by using faint background galaxies as light sources, against which gas could be seen by the characteristic absorption features of hydrogen.

Their absorption measurements using 24 faint background galaxies provided sufficient coverage of a small patch of the sky to be combined into a 3D map of the foreground cosmic web.

Using the light from faint background galaxies for this purpose had been thought impossible with current telescopes — until Lee carried out calculations that suggested otherwise.

A higher contaminant density can be expected to linearly increase the fraction of target stars that are contaminated by faint background binaries.

Observational evidence to confirm the idea that the universe had a very dense beginning came in October 1965, with the discovery of a faint background of microwaves throughout space.

The numerous galaxy collisions literally tear some galaxies apart and scatter their stars onto wide orbits around the newly created large galaxies, which should give them a faint background glow of stellar light.

Zemcov et al. sent up a rocket to measure the fluctuations in this faint background and found largescale fluctuations greater than known galaxies alone should produce (see the Perspective by Moseley).

Typically, this third star is brighter than the binary and corresponds to the observing target, whereas the binary is a faint background system.

Scientists have long wondered why this faint background light is so uniform across the sky, Carlstrom said.

By combining these color data, it is possible to make a crude estimate of the distances to the faint background galaxies (called photometric redshift).

The numerous galaxy collisions literally tear some galaxies apart and scatter their stars into wide orbits around the newly created large galaxies, which should give the galaxies a faint background glow of stellar light.

It's a faint background scent that invites you to relax.

There is no music or dialogue, and the only sound we hear is some faint background noise.

The exhibition title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang and is the name Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the National Security Agency that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

Each overlapping grid contains repetitive, controlled marks in pink and purple hues that are, as art critic Andrew Forge noted «small enough to provide a completely unified surface, open enough to be transparent, and vigorous enough to set up a faint background vibration.»