Sentences with phrase «faint point of light»
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.
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What had been a faint point of light was turning into a world sculpted by ice.
He discovered a faint point of light that we now see as a complex and fascinating world.
Even in the best telescopic views such a small and distant object just appears as a faint point of light.
On Oct. 19, 2017, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i picked up a faint point of light moving across the sky.
There it was — a faint point of light that wasn't supposed to be there.
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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Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).
Downstairs in the gallery, three large photographs titled «Dark Star», after a point of light in the universe too faint for direct observation.