Sentences with phrase «faint objects so»

«Spitzer allowed us to see really faint objects so that we could do a census of all the star - forming regions out to 3,000 light - years.

«The discovery is telling us that galaxies as faint as this one exist, and we should continue looking for them and even fainter objects so that we can understand how galaxies and the universe have evolved over time.»

Not exact matches

As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects like neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects such as neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

So Anita Cochran of the University of Texas and her colleagues turned to the Hubble telescope's Wide Field / Planetary Camera, which can spot much fainter objects.

All of the thousands of brown dwarfs found so far are relatively close to the Sun, the overwhelming majority within 1500 light years, simply because these objects are faint and therefore difficult to observe.

There are many smaller, fainter brown dwarfs too, so this could be a significant underestimate, and the survey confirms these dim objects are ubiquitous.

One such object, A1689 - zD1, is located in the box — although it is still so faint that it is barely seen in this picture.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

Once more massive and brighter than Gacrux and so burnt out much faster, it is now probably a few hundred times fainter than Sol, with 0.6 to 1.4 times its mass and less than one percent of its diameter — a very dense object at planetary size.

The stars in the stream are incredibly faint, so it was necessary to use a proxy technique to measure the speeds of brighter tracer objects moving along with the stream stars.

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).

This is because many of the inner Oort cloud objects are so distant that even very large ones would be too faint to detect with current technology,» says Sheppard.