Sentences with phrase «faint light at»

Through the darkness shines a faint light at the end of the tunnel: a television showing footage of Fidel Castro.

There was a little faint light at the end of the tunnel.

If you're holding bonds or bond ETFs, you may have noticed a faint light at the very end of the tunnel.

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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me.

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.

The idea is to blot out the light of a star and zero in on a small planet, right next to it in the sky and 10 billion times fainter (at visible wavelengths) than it.

Because these extremely faint stars are brightest at near - infrared wavelengths of light, the team emphasized that this type of observation could only be accomplished with Hubble's infrared sensitivity to extraordinarily dim light.

It is like looking at the night sky: the bright stars of physics and biology catch the attention, but it is the vast array of the individually faint stars of chemistry that collectively casts most light.

But at about 1,000 light - years away, Kepler 452 b is far too faint for easy follow - up studies.

It must be invisible, or at least very faint, so it can not be made of anything that significantly radiates, reflects or absorbs light.

He breakfasted by candlelight at 11:00 and thought he could see a faint glimmering of light, but at 5 P.M. he still could «neither read nor write without candle.»

It lies at a distance of 280,000 light years from the Sun, and such a remote galaxy with faint brightness has not been identified in previous surveys.

During the past decade astronomers looking deep into space with supersensitive electronic detectors have found millions of faint blue galaxies at distances exceeding 4 billion light - years.

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

At that wavelength an Earth - like planet would glow like a lightbulb, although it would still appear millions of times fainter than its sunlike star — but that's still better than billions of times fainter, as it would be in visible light.

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.

Instead of looking at distant and faint objects for long periods to get enough light, LSST will look at things that change fast.

A team led by astronomer Kevin Luhman of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found extra emissions of infrared light from a faint dwarf with just 15 times Jupiter's mass — at the threshold of what astronomers consider «planetary mass.»

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) detected faint ultraviolet light from an aurora at the moon's south pole.

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.

From the inside out, the «Cassini division» in faint red at left is followed by the A ring in its entirety in this ultraviolet - light image.

With a visual luminosity that has reportedly varied between 0.000053 and 0.00012 of Sol's (based on a distance of 4.22 light - years) the star is as much as 19,000 times fainter than the Sun, and so if it was placed at the location of our Sun from Earth, the disk of the star would barely be visible.

When Webb turns its attention to extremely faint, faraway objects, it will take a long time — at least a day, or as long as a week — for NIRSpec to collect enough light to see a good spectrum.

UGCA 86 (centre) and UGCA 92 (right) are much closer, they are two faint irregular dwarf galaxies located about seven million light years from us at the front of the group near IC 342.

To detect faint radio waves coming from 10 billion light years away in an extremely harsh environment at an altitude of 5000 meters, new breakthrough technologies are incorporated into ALMA by integrating high - efficiency receivers, high - speed computer, and high - precision antennas allowing high accuracy tracking.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).

It significantly enhances the spectroscopic capabilities of HST at ultraviolet wavelengths, and provides observers with unparalleled opportunities for observing faint sources of ultraviolet light.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

For about two weeks the star could be seen in daylight, but at the end of November it began to fade and change color, from bright white over yellow and orange to faint reddish light, finally fading away from visibility in March, 1574, having been visible to the naked eye for almost 16 months (more about Brahe's «acid tongue and silver nose,» the cultural shock of the «new star,» and how supernovae create high - energy radiation from Wallace H. Tucker).

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Marden's early paintings box the viewer into the moment of encounter, offering at most a sliver of spattered canvas along a picture's bottom edge — like a faint crack of light beneath a door — as a whispered invitation to ponder the work's material history and creative context.

The viewer almost feels enveloped by the mist rising off three pale gray - on - gray paintings from the 90's, one of a New York rooftop, another of a patch of beach in faint morning light and a third of barely visible trees, also at sunrise.

Forming at altitudes above 50 miles, they are so faint that they can only be seen from the ground in the reflected light...

At first glance, it's easy to miss a tiny, faint light hidden among a mesmerizing cluster of colorful stars.

I'm talking to those of you who are yearning for a new job and a change of scenery, but that light at the end of the tunnel is absurdly distant and faint.