Sentences with phrase «faint images of»

We see ghosts as faint images of what has changed, decayed or transformed in his painting.

You can see faint images of stages on the platform — the number of fighters clustered on those images indicates the number of fighters you'll face.

The faint images of the glow from 12 dark galaxies are labelled with blue circles.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Marc Buie and Eliot Young located faint images of both satellites in HST ACS data taken for a Pluto mapping project they spearheaded in 2002.

The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.

«All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.»

The biggest issue here is that the e-ink panel is bogged with ghost images, with a faint image of the previous display lingering.

Apparently, if you squint your eyes and tilt your head 38 degrees to the left while looking at the linen, you can see a faint image of a face.

The dress will feature the faint image of a naked woman, superimposed with brushy dots.

If we look at the current legal industry structure we see a faint image of the future.

Not exact matches

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

The man who can not feel at least some faint intimation of this grief is a paltry soul of base coinage, bearing neither the image of Caesar nor the image of God.

«If the image of God and the law of God were completely obliterated from man's soul by sin, if no «faint outlines» of the original remained, men would have no conception of justice, righteousness, or peace to use as the foundation of the human standards of equity.

But even at this distance, it is very challenging to obtain good images of the faint reflected light from discs, since they are outshone by the dazzling light of their parent stars.

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.

Astronomers exploit this property of space to use the clusters as a zoom lens to magnify the images of far - more - distant galaxies that otherwise would be too faint to be seen.

Judging from images of these far - flung galaxies, they found the Milky Way likely began as faint, blue, low - mass object containing lots of gas.

Images of Io's next - door neighbor, Europa, revealed another utterly unexpected landscape: smooth as a cue ball and nearly as white, except for a network of thin, faint brownish fractures.

LIGHTEN UP Some of the faintest, most distant galaxies detected to date (arcs) appear in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744.

Two teams have finally seen it by combining millions of faint images into one

They used images from the UltraVISTA survey, one of six projects using VISTA to survey the sky at near - infrared wavelengths, and made a census of faint galaxies when the age of the Universe was between just 0.75 and 2.1 billion years old.

Light from the star, too faint to be seen in the image above, is polarized due to interactions with the vacuum of space in a strong magnetic field.

Given this very close arrangement, astronomers are intrigued by the galaxies» apparent lack of any significant gravitational interaction; only a faint bridge of neutral hydrogen gas — not visible in this image — appears to stretch between them.

To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.

Faint ground - hugging patches on Pluto are indicative of clouds, seen in these July 2015 images from the New Horizons spacecraft.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

The faint spot close to the brighter brown dwarf star may be the very first real image of an exoplanet.

The inset is an image of an extremely faint and distant galaxy that existed only 400 million years after the big bang.

That is, if one removed all but the edges of the reflector, the image would be much fainter but would not lose clarity.

The exposure times used to create this image set — a tenth of a second — were too short for the camera to detect Pluto's four much smaller and fainter moons.

BARELY THERE A faint galaxy, seen in the center of a Hubble Space Telescope image, is about the same size as the Milky Way but has relatively few stars.

For example, an instrument on one satellite could block the glare of the sun or a distant star, making it possible for a camera on the other to image faint objects such as the sun's ghostly corona or exoplanets orbiting a star.

The gas glows because young, extremely hot stars like these are emitting intense ultraviolet light which strips the surrounding gas of its electrons and causes it to emit the faint glow seen in this image.

«They're so faint that it takes quite a bit of work to pull them from the images, that's where Kuchner's project will help immensely,» he said.

But when it has been working, the 10 - metre Keck Telescope, in Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has impressed astronomers with images and spectra of objects too faint to be detected by other telescopes.

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the center of NGC 1600 is unusually faint, indicating a lack of stars close to the black hole.

The three astronomers combined several images to amplify the faint loops and flares seen rising thousands of light - years from the plane of ngc 55, which lies some 5 million light - years from Earth.

The small white boxes, labeled «a,» «b,» and «c,» mark multiple images from the same background galaxy, one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest galaxies ever seen.

Update: On 16 October, NASA released an image of a faint ejecta plume observed by the LCROSS shepherding spacecraft.

If I close my eyes until all after - images have disappeared and put on a sleep mask to ensure that I'm not peeking under an eyelid, I can «see» a faint but clear dark shadow of my arm when I move it slowly back and forth in front of my face.

And in 2007, the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to Pluto imaged two wave sets spiraling through each other in the faint, dusty ring of Jupiter.

In early July, Alan Stern directed his postdoc Andrew Steffl to sift carefully through all of the HST images in order to see whether or not Pluto has any faint satellites.

There are also two cameras - one which can achieve image resolutions 10 times greater than that of even the largest Earth - based telescope, and a second which can detect an object 50 times fainter than anything visible from Earth.

Researchers were able to confirm characteristics of the Little Cub galaxy using Keck Observatory's Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, a faint - light instrument capable of taking spectra and images of the most distant known objects in the universe.

We searched for a counterpart in Hubble Space Telescope ACS / WFC archived images and found at least 11 candidates, of which we could characterize only the 7 brightest, including one with a 3 sigma H - alpha excess and a faint blue star.

This is a nighttime image of our Milky Way galaxy, which includes a view of M31, that lies 2.5 million light - years distant and looks like a faint spindle, several times the diameter of the full Moon (Image: NASA / Simage of our Milky Way galaxy, which includes a view of M31, that lies 2.5 million light - years distant and looks like a faint spindle, several times the diameter of the full Moon (Image: NASA / SImage: NASA / STScI)

Using the precise VLA position, researchers used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to make a visible - light image that identified a faint dwarf galaxy at the location of the bursts.

The F ring remains too faint to see here without enhancing the contrast of the image.

ALMA is a telescope suitable for analyzing molecules in galaxies because of: 1) a high sensitivity to detect faint radio signals; 2) a high fidelity imaging capability to image actual gas distributions; 3) the ability to observe wideband multiple wavelengths simultaneously, and high spatial resolution.

In this view, all that can be seen of Saturn's D ring is the faint and narrow arc as it stretches from top right of the image.