Sentences with phrase «faint light from»

ALMA's light - gathering capabilities increase the EHT's ability to detect the faint light from the very center of our galaxy.

The HDF observation was designed to detect very faint light from the most distant galaxies Hubble can observe.

The HDF observation was designed to detect very faint light from the most...

«Examining the faint light from an elderly Milky Way star, astronomers have detected a far greater abundance

The gulf in time and space is so great that even the most powerful telescopes can't see the faint light from those first stars.

The faint light from the corona is usually overpowered by intense emissions from the Sun itself.

Astronomers studying distant objects call these stars «foreground stars» and they are often not very happy about them, as their bright light is contaminating the faint light from the more distant and interesting objects they actually want to study.

These clusters are so massive they warp the surrounding space, forming gigantic «gravitational lenses» that amplify the faint light from galaxies even farther away, ones born less than a billion years after the big bang.

We train our telescopes on small patches of sky for long spells, trying to drink in as much faint light from distant objects as possible.

Galaxy clusters enable us to see fainter light from galaxies in the distant universe.

Not exact matches

This array will, it is said, be able to detect the faintest energy emanating from distant stars — billions of light years from the earth.

And finally, that no blemish may separate him, by so much as a single atom of himself, from the essential limpidity, he labours unceasingly to purify his affections and to remove even the very faintest opacities which might cloud or impede the light.

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.

A 10 - meter mirror on something like the HDST would provide enough surface area to efficiently gather the faint light of dozens of such exoplanets as well as provide higher resolution to spatially distinguish them from the glares of their suns.

HERA's level of sensitivity — which is one of the things that allows the instrument to collect the faint traces of light from such distant sources — will get even higher with the new grant.

By using a system that receives light only from a certain angle, such devices could have an improved ability to detect faint targets.

Located 1,350 light - years away, the Orion Nebula is a relatively nearby laboratory for studying the star formation process across a wide range, from opulent giant stars to diminutive red dwarf stars and elusive, faint brown dwarfs.

From dark clear sites on Earth, zodiacal light looks like a faint diffuse white glow seen in the night sky after the end of twilight, or before dawn.

Imaging the planets themselves is extremely difficult, because their faint light is all but swamped by the glare from their star, which can be a billion times brighter.

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.

Two weeks out of every four are effectively lost because of moonlight: it severely limits observations of the deep sky and the measurement of light from faint objects.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

The xenon's job is to light up, with a jolt of electrical charge and a faint flash of light caught by surrounding sensors, when a dark - matter particle collides with one of its atoms — and the gallons of water and mile of rock's job is to stop anything else from getting in and disturbing it.

Minuscule amounts of beryllium atoms in the outer layers of two faint stars 7200 light - years from Earth.

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.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

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.

The faint radiation was visible thanks to a fortuitous cosmic alignment: The light from the distant quasar is amplified by the gravity of a much closer, invisible galaxy.

Photography picks up fainter, outlying blues from light scattering off dust particles and reds emitted by hydrogen.

Smaller numbers of meteors will be visible on Monday evening, since light from a nearly full Moon will wash out fainter meteors.

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.

During its journey to Earth, the light from these faint galaxies must pass through the lumps and filaments of dark matter in the cosmic web.

They argue that some of the smaller dips of light attributed to Boyajian's star are actually deep dips in brightness from fainter adjacent stars in Kepler's field of view, possibly caused by swarms of tiny, dense clouds or comets in interstellar space.

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 heaFaint 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 heafaint meteors continually peppered the heavens.

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

These discoveries are all the more remarkable because astronomers infer them from the faintest glimmers of light, sometimes just a handful of photons.

They studied light from 1600 faint galaxies, including 72 not seen before (Astronomy & Astrophysics, doi.org/cgsd).

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

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.

The light from 51 Eridani b is very faint; its nearest star is 3 million times brighter.

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.

«We were able to separate the light of the faint planet from the light of the much brighter star and to see that they were both growing and glowing in this very distinct shade of red.»

While spectroscopy of extremely faint sources is not trivial the primary technology challenge, the «tall tent pole», is starlight suppression — blocking the bright light from the target star so as to capture the faint reflected light of the exoplanet.

Some of the earliest telescopes and observatories were placed as far away from civilization as possible so that astronomers could observe the faintest galaxies without interference by city lights.

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.

The Sun seen from a distance of 50 light years would be a magnitude 5.8 star, so it also would be a faint point of light barely visible with the naked eye.

To see the faint disk, astronomers used the Advanced Camera for Surveys» coronagraph, which blocked the light from Beta Pictoris.