Sentences with phrase «faint objects across»
Astronomers often hunt faint objects across the universe.
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He found it — a faint, pale dot streaking across the sky — while reviewing images from the university's Pan-STARRS telescope, which searches for near - Earth objects (NEOs) from the mountain Haleakala.
ALMA was able to observe the faint millimeter - wavelength «glow» emitted by the object, confirming it is roughly 635 kilometers across.
It is not possible to get a good photograph of the entire Virgo cluster because the galaxies are rather faint and small objects scattered across 15 degrees of the sky.
The ALMA radio telescope array was able to observe the faint millimeter - wavelength «glow» emitted by DeeDee, confirming the object is roughly 395 miles (635 kilometers across).
It is impossible to get a good photograph of the entire cluster because the galaxies are faint objects scattered across 15 degrees of the sky, and a large angle photograph would be swamped by thousands of foreground stars in our own galaxy.
The FOS examined fainter objects than the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS), and could study these objects across a much wider spectral range — from the UV (1150 Angstroms) through the visible red and the near - IR (8000 Angstroms).