Sentences with phrase «from background stars»

The black hole's powerful gravity distorts the space around it, stretching light from background stars.

Previous large - area searches have been incomplete for L / T transition dwarfs, because these objects are faint in optical bands and have near - infrared colors that are difficult to distinguish from background stars.

They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens, magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern of images.

So when a dim star in our galaxy passes almost directly between Earth and a second star, the gravitational field of the intervening «lens» star bends and magnifies light from the background star, a process called gravitational microlensing.

As general relativity predicts, light from the background star bent around the white dwarf, distorted by its gravitational field.

Astronomers might even spot free - floating planets through gravitational lensing, in which the planet's gravity magnifies light from a background star.

If one star, however, passes nearly precisely in front of a farther background star, the gravity of the foreground star acts like a giant lens, magnifying the light from the background star.

The foreground star has basically acted as a magnifying lens, focusing the light from the background star for astronomers on Earth to observe.

A phenomenon called gravitational microlensing, where the gravity from a foreground star momentarily bends and amplifies light from a background star, was used to do a statistical search for solar systems like ours.

If the foreground star happens to have any planets orbiting it, these will distort and dim the light from the background star in a noticeable way as well, which will help astronomers measure some of their basic properties, like their mass and orbital period.

Not exact matches

The camera tilts up crazily from his face into a sky full of swirling stars as the title score swells in the background and the name of the film appears on the screen.

4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained on the early earth until it was cool enough for oceans to form 7s) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars, planets, galaxies) 6) it rained on the early earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough for oceans to form 7) the first life form was blue green bacteria.

I'd like to drag these stars from the stage for a minute and focus on those in the background.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Along with the familiar cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the big bang — the distant universe is suffused with an infrared background, thought to come from galaxies and stars too faint and far away to see.

According to the researchers, the light from the earliest stars is still detectable amidst the infrared light that makes up the background of the observable universe.

Ultraviolet light from early, blueish stars (illustrated) interacted with hydrogen gas, causing it to absorb background radiation, and creating a signature scientists have now detected.

So a number of observational projects have taken a different tack, trying to identify small KBOs by monitoring background stars for sudden dips in brightness that might result from a distant object crossing the line of sight between the star and Earth.

Although they can not be seen individually, «the total light produced by these stray stars is about equal to the background light we get from counting up individual galaxies,» says Bock, also a senior research scientist at JPL.

They found that about 63 percent of the background radio emission comes from galaxies with gorging black holes at their cores and the remaining 37 percent comes from galaxies that are rapidly forming stars.

Testing the model has been tough because groupings of stars at distances of 8 billion to 11 billion light - years away from us are so faint that they tend to vanish into the background glow of Earth's atmosphere.

When the dwarf, named Stein 2051 B, passed in front of another star from Earth's perspective, Sahu's team followed the position of the background star.

Later she learned that although Galileo noticed the moons on the 7th, he mistook them for background stars, not questioning their true identity until the following night, when he returned to find two had moved from one side of Jupiter to the other.

Astronomers will measure the mass by examining images of each of the background stars to see how far the stars are offset from their real positions in the sky.

In this artist's illustration, an intermediate - mass black hole in the foreground distorts light from the globular star cluster in the background.

The sharp Hubble and Keck Observatory images allowed the research teams to separate out the background source star from its neighbors in the very crowded star field in the direction of our galaxy's center.

According to Shvartzvald, Yee and their colleagues, OGLE -2016-BLG-1195Lb is the lowest mass world ever discovered through microlensing, a technique in which light from a star that passes in front of a bright background object causes the latter to appear brighter, thus allowing scientists to detect anomalies created by a planet orbiting in the foreground.

Following subtraction of the sky background from these frames, differential aperture photometry was carried out on Amalthea and a nearby field star.

We describe several new techniques for the identification of background transit sources that are separated from their target stars, indicating an astrophysical false positive.

Occasionally, when the stars are aligned just right, this warping of the fabric of the universe results in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, wherein the strong gravitational field of a foreground object acts as a lens that «bends» light from an object in the background and allows scientists to catch a glimpse of what might otherwise have remained invisible.

Before we continue, a bit of background: Comets and asteroids arise from the protoplanetary disks of dust, ice and gas around young stars.

According to Space.com, the telescope detected about 34,000 signals while studying the Cygnus constellation, indicating a combination of transiting planets and background noise that may have come from either the star being studied or the instrument itself.

The team estimates that a background level of radiation, supplied by other galaxies, could delay gas in a galaxy (call it galaxy A) from fragmenting quickly into smaller clouds that would form stars.

If a star / planet system lenses a background source, we can get a very accurate measurement of the lensing star and lensing planet's masses, distance, and physical separation from each other.

The data also will be studied for evidence of a faint, uniform infrared background, the residual radiation from the first stars and galaxies formed following the Big Bang.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extstar - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extStar Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

They start off as background singers to a popular R&B star named James «Thunder» Early (Murphy, The Haunted Mansion), but Curtis has bigger dreams in mind, breaking off from Early to get the girls, now dubbed The Dreams, big gigs of their own.

on one of the mini-games, the background looks like the star festival from the Super Mario Galaxy series.

Showalter (also starring as CPA Elliot Sherman) plays the titular schlub, the «Baxter» being a creature of extreme nerdy social incompetence most often glimpsed in frown and tux in the retreating background of Dustin Hoffman rescuing Katharine Ross from the altar.

Also, some Kirby goodness was added to Karaoke Joysound for Nintendo Switch: a Kirby Star Allies background video, and three songs from the Kirby 25th Anniversary Memorial Arrange album!

In the new «On Chesil Beach» trailer, released on Thursday, Ronan stars alongside Billy Howle as a young couple from drastically different backgrounds.

The setting and some of the background has been taken from the Phantasy Star series making for an interesting combination.

The key for a young star coming from any form and any background in the Internet era is to develop a vision for the kind of work you want to be part of of and build your career to that point.

Titled Hunter Prey, it clearly draws influence from both Star Wars and Predator, along with Collora's background in creature effects.

They star as girls from different social backgrounds who develop an intense relationship and Blunt's seductive compulsive liar marked her out as one to watch.

The two also give some background info Hemmings, star Contouri (who ultimately retired from acting after a brief stay in Hollywood), the excellent locations at an artist colony and dairy refinery, plus a funny explanation about why Aussies shoot such striking widescreen films.

Starring James Cagney as ruthless bootlegger Tom Powers, The Public Enemy — aside from its obvious focus on the criminal underworld — first taught Scorsese the idea of using music as counterpoint, particularly in the final scene where Cagney arrives home dead with the lighthearted «Forever Blowing Bubbles» playing in the background.

Nia Valdolas also starred in and scripted My Big Fat Greek Wedding, about a family whose daughter marries a man from a very different cultural background.