Sentences with phrase «gathers photons of light»

The detector includes a charge - coupled device (CCD), which gathers photons of light and converts them into picture elements, or pixels.

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It would also be swimming in stellar glare, meaning Project Blue's telescope would have to filter out on the order of 10 billion stellar photons to gather just one photon of planetary light.
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