Sentences with phrase «faint point»
If those objects are bigger than Jupiter, longer exposures with NICMOS could reveal them as faint points of light, notes team member Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Doing it from the ground is extremely hard because one has to look for faint points of light against the twilight sky.
To the right is a much fainter point: Nu Leonis, a binary star system in the same constellation.
Luckily, he examined these images immediately and noticed a faint point of light quickly brightening near the end of a spiral arm that was not visible in his first set of images.
There it was — a faint point of light that wasn't supposed to be there.
FAR OUT The gravity of the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149 bent the light from a bright blue star (one of the faint points of light just above and to the left of the super bright central star in this image), letting it reach us from 9 billion light - years away.
Parker spotted a faint point of light close to the dwarf planet using data from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
On Oct. 19, 2017, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i picked up a faint point of light moving across the sky.
Even in the best telescopic views such a small and distant object just appears as a faint point of light.
He discovered a faint point of light that we now see as a complex and fascinating world.
What had been a faint point of light was turning into a world sculpted by ice.
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.