Sentences with phrase «faint signal on»
NASA's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes received the explorer's last faint signal on 22 January from a distance of 12.3 billion kilometers.
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«Measurements of the extragalactic background radiation are always hard to get, because this signal is very faint and, as a result, its detection is strongly dependent on how well one can remove the sources of contamination,» says Angelica De Oliveira - Costa, an expert on cosmic background observations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As they orbit each other, the black holes pull on the fabric of space and create a faint signal that travels outward in all directions, like a vibration in a spider's web.
After detecting the initial flash, Swift focused on the burst's faint X-ray afterglow, a dim electromagnetic signal emitted when high - energy particles from the blast heat the surrounding material.
«We focused on red - dwarf stars, which are smaller and fainter than our Sun, since we expect any biomarker signals from planets orbiting such stars to be easier to detect.»
Researchers from the IceCube project will place a string of Digital Optical Modules into this hole, which can detect the faint signal produced on the rare occasion when a neutrino collides directly with the nucleus of an atom in a molecule of ice.
«We needed that long because the target is so faint, we need enough strength of signal to process the data to concentrate on such quiescent emissions and to get the signatures identified firmly.»
Astronomers from MIT and ASU have detected faint radio signals coming from the Cosmic Dawn — the time when the first stars began to flicker on (Credit: CSIRO Australia)
The cylinder contains the radio receiver which amplifies the faint cosmic signals by a factor of many million, making them strong enough to be recorded on a chart.
There's a faint smile on her face to signal the appearance of calm.
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Hammerheads cruise the seafloor in search of crabs, lobster, octopus, and fish, using special sensors on its head to detect faint electrical signals.
And when Seal Faith went back on December 22nd, she managed to pick up the faint signal of the chick's radio transmitter.