Sentences with phrase «faint background light»

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My conscious life is but a faint light shining out of a background of powers, processes, events, and memories.

That ancient, relic light washes over us even now, diminished by the intervening eons to a faint all - sky microwave glow: the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, or CMB for short, is a faint glow of light that fills the universe, falling on Earth from every direction with nearly uniform intensity.

Still, the zodiacal light illuminates the heavens there and obscures faint objects; it is the main diffuse background at visible wavelengths.

Testing the model has been tough because groupings of stars at distances of 8 billion to 11 billion light - years away from us are so faint that they tend to vanish into the background glow of Earth's atmosphere.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

[4] Gravitational lensing magnifies the light from fainter, background objects, allowing Hubble to spy galaxies it would otherwise not be able to detect.

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.

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.

The extremely dry, cold air is perfectly suited for observing Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation - the faint light signature left by the Big Bang that brought the universe into being nearly 14 billion years ago.