Sentences with phrase «images of distant stars»

As Webb observes light that's traveled from the far reaches of the cosmos, it captures images of distant stars and forming galaxies as they were in the earliest stages of the universe.

Not exact matches

The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.

Taking an optical image of distant planets is tough because the bright light from their stars drowns them out.

Gravity from a galaxy (box) in this Hubble Space Telescope image bends light from a more distant supernova, creating four images of the exploding star (arrows).

For the first time, astronomers have imaged a cosmic microlens, an object that increases the brightness of distant stars.

When Sigurdsson and colleagues analyzed images of the white dwarf from the Hubble Space Telescope, they concluded that the distant, unseen companion is not a low - mass star, as many researchers had thought, but a planet with about 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter.

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.

A device called a coronagraph can be built into a telescope to block most of the photons from a distant star's glow, allowing the dim light from a planet to pass into the telescope's sensors and create a glare - free image.

In a gravitational lens, the gravity of stars and other matter can bend the light of a much more distant star or galaxy, often fracturing it into several separate images (see image at right).

If the light from a distant galaxy reaches us having passed through a cluster of say, four stars, she wondered, then how many images might we see?

(In the image above the more distant quasar HE 1104 - 1805 is seen as the two larger images on either side of the smaller yet closer lens galaxy [WKK93] G.) The stars in that lens galaxy then act like ultra-high resolution telescopes (see the NASA video).

The images present a striking record of historic solar and lunar eclipses, comets, and even views of binary stars and distant constellations.

«First look at birthplaces of most current stars: Highly sensitive images reveal details of distant galaxies.»

A new image of gas around the most distant black hole known suggests that it arose without many stars around it.

Such slavering was perhaps unsurprising, given that suspended animation has often been associated with sci - fi images of astronauts hibernating in pods en route to distant stars.

Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found ways to sharpen images of the energy spectra in high - temperature superconductors â $» materials that carry electrical current effortlessly when cooled below a certain temperature.

© Estate of John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission from Whatmough) Glowing red through gravitational contraction, the candidate brown dwarf companion to Proxima Centauri is depicted with two moons (one eclipsing the flare star) with distant Alpha Centauri A and B at upper right, as imagined by Whatmough.

MAUNA KEA, HI — Astronomers have for the first time spotted four images of a distant exploding star, arranged in a cross-shape pattern by a powerful gravitational lens.

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.

AO has measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors.

Just this year it captured the most distant single star yet, learned more about a strange stellar ring, watched two galaxies merge, and created lots of new images of the Messier objects, the distant smudges first described by astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th century.

Listening to the Stars February 05, 2014 Astronomy data can be converted into beautiful images of galaxies, stars, and distant plaStars February 05, 2014 Astronomy data can be converted into beautiful images of galaxies, stars, and distant plastars, and distant planets.