Sentences with phrase «faint light on»

An encounter with his convict brother sheds a faint light on their shared remorselessness — the quality that supposedly makes The Iceman an intriguing character.

The unveiling of the human genome almost 7 years ago cast the first faint light on our complete genetic makeup.

Not exact matches

And while solid colors rule in the boardroom, Bisio says a faint check in the shirt or subtle stripes on suit coats are suitable light touches.

Then, as he described it, through reading, and pondering «beauty, art, water, flowers, trees...» something began to happen: «God began to appear on the horizon, it was a faint light, like hope.»

All of a sudden, there is a faint singing in the distance and the doorway is lit up by a woman in a long white gown, wearing a wreath with candles on her head.

Hubble made an educated guess based on the reasoning that the brightest stars in each galaxy all shine with the same luminosity, like light bulbs of equal wattage, so the fainter they appear, the farther away they lie.

A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than typical galaxies.

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.

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.

Peering out past the glass, I could see the twinkling lights of the new Mongolia in the square below, and further beyond that, the faint outlines of the old Mongolia on the dark hillsides of the ger district.

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.

On Oct. 19, 2017, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i picked up a faint point of light moving across the sky.

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.

They are nearly impossible to see relying on visible light, but with the infrared vision of NASA's WISE space telescope, researchers finally detected the faint glow of six Y dwarfs relatively close to our sun, within a distance of about 40 light - years.

Finally by noon on April 12, a faint light broke through, and the captain was struck by the thought that the Benares resembled nothing more than a giant calcified pumice stone.

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.

Based on the infrared signature of the faint light, they found to their surprise that the glow seems to be created by second - and third - generation stars — stars created out of gas and dust that has been cooked in the hearts of very large, short - lived stars.

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.

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

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.

Like Auger, TA also features batteries of specialized telescopes that on clear, moonless nights can detect the faint light, or fluorescence, produced by an extensive air shower.

Once the coronagraph zeros in on the faint light of an exoplanet, a low - resolution spectrometer then analyzes the chemical «fingerprints» of that world.

The team has focused on a particular type of objects called Dust - Obscured Galaxy (DOG) that has a prominent feature: despite being very faint in the visible light, it is very bright in the infrared.

The galaxies are the smallest, faintest, and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe, and were captured by Hubble deep exposures taken in ultraviolet light, and confirmed using the mighty Keck I telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

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.

Redshift is a measure of how much the Universe has expanded since the light left a distant source and can only be determined for faint objects with a spectrograph on a powerful large telescope such as the Keck Observatory's twin 10 - meter telescopes, the largest on Earth.

All of the brightest and largest galaxies within 20 million light years are marked on this map together with many of the fainter dwarf galaxies.

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).

Condition: Overall excellent; the dress is still very crisp and only shows light, normal wear, including a small faint scuff on the bodice that is super hard to see (see last photo)

Diamond color is graded on a scale from D - Z and is divided into five broad categories (colorless, near colorless, faint, very light and light).

A faint blue light came on under his chin.

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

Earlier this year, as the truly repulsive story of Mark Berndt (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart)-- an elementary teacher in the L.A. Unified School District accused of committing unspeakable acts against his students — came to light, I noted here on Public Sector Inc. that the failure to prevent his crimes owed in part to the influence of the California Teachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special interest.

In fact, it took me a while to notice the very faint Sport label lit up on the speedometer face.

It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing ground - shudder watching it till it was gone.

In the faint, delicate light of a new day, she makes out Maya's silhouette as she stirs on the...

It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing groundshudder watching it till it was gone.

Two more storefront windows on either side of the door emanated a faint light and in this glow I could see a wooden ship and a black - and - white photograph of a sailor from an earlier generation resting on a ledge inside.

It's fainter than the light - source bleed found on the Nook, but it's still there.

This beautiful baby boy has faint gray stripes that only peak through his shiny black coat when he basks in the sunlight or plays with the lights on the Christmas tree.

On day 2 of the Salkantay trek, we woke to the faint hint of light that paints the sky just before daybreak.

In an ongoing series, Finch captures the changes in natural light on his studio wall through faint washes of paint — recalling Mondrian's concern with moments of transition, the captured half - lights of twilights and sunsets.

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.

His potent paintings of images that are often intentionally difficult to see — sometimes light chalk on dark paper, or faint or dark paint on black canvas — both embody the spirit of that moment and its embrace of controversial images taken from popular culture, and have a timeless mastery that may send you as far back as Vélazquez for affinity of touch.

Even more distinctive than shape is the fact that when the device is powered on, you can see a faint glow of red laser light around the port door.

And where even ultra HD LCD sets can bleed light and create faint halos around bright objects on the screen, the LG OLED delivered clean, sharp lines without any blooming or blurring.