Sentences with phrase «image faint objects»
For example, an instrument on one satellite could block the glare of the sun or a distant star, making it possible for a camera on the other to image faint objects such as the sun's ghostly corona or exoplanets orbiting a star.
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The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.
He found it — a faint, pale dot streaking across the sky — while reviewing images from the university's Pan-STARRS telescope, which searches for near - Earth objects (NEOs) from the mountain Haleakala.
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Hubble captured images of the galaxy in visible and infrared light, witnessing a new bright object within NGC 4993 that was brighter than a nova but fainter than a supernova.
Judging from images of these far - flung galaxies, they found the Milky Way likely began as faint, blue, low - mass object containing lots of gas.
But when it has been working, the 10 - metre Keck Telescope, in Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has impressed astronomers with images and spectra of objects too faint to be detected by other telescopes.
There are also two cameras - one which can achieve image resolutions 10 times greater than that of even the largest Earth - based telescope, and a second which can detect an object 50 times fainter than anything visible from Earth.
Researchers were able to confirm characteristics of the Little Cub galaxy using Keck Observatory's Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, a faint - light instrument capable of taking spectra and images of the most distant known objects in the universe.
For extremely faint objects, the added goal is to get enough duplicates of that image in order to layer them together later.
Astronomers are stuck with such indirect methods of detection because current telescope technology struggles to image very distant and faint objects - especially when they orbit close to the glare of a star.
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array used 14 - centimeter state of the art telephoto lens cameras to produce digital images of the very faint, diffuse objects.
Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler aperture.
Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler... ▽ More The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.
Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Spectrograph in 1996 offered some evidence to support earlier indications that either star could be a high - mass brown dwarf (Schultz et al, 1999).
Making an extra effort to image a faint, gigantic corkscrew traced by fast protons and electrons shot out from a mysterious microquasar paid off for a pair of astrophysicists who gained new insights into the beast's inner workings and also resolved a longstanding dispute over the object's distance.
Adaptive optics removes the blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere, greatly increasing the acuity of astronomical images and allowing astronomers to study very faint and distant objects in the universe.
Since our Sun is many billions of times brighter than the faint objects ALMA typically observes, the solar commissioning team had to developed special procedures to enable ALMA to safely image the Sun.
«In order to find them, we combed through images of billions of celestial objects millions of times fainter than what the naked eye can see.»
The Einstein Cross — The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the most detailed image ever taken of the gravitational lens G2237 + 0305 — sometimes referred to as the Einstein Cross.