Sentences with phrase «images of the background star»

These images of the background star may be distorted, brightened and multiplied depending on the alignment between the foreground lens and the background source.

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As well as the SMC itself this very wide - field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picture.

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.

For the most part, the stars lie along four spiral arms (artist's representation of the Milky Way, background image), the researchers report online today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Combining the available images and removing the haze of the lensing galaxy's collection of stars, the result was very clear: an almost perfect Einstein ring, indicating a gravitational lens with very precise alignment of the lens and the background light source [1].

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.

This sequence of low - resolution telescope images (the best that are available) shows an asteroid discovered in 2008 as a tiny dot (with an arrow pointing toward it) as it moves across the sky against a background of stars.

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.

We find that when we apply this image - restoration process to science images with a variety of stars on a variety of background levels, it restores flux, position, and shape.

For such bright standard stars with negligible background signal, a simple correction algorithm with an accuracy of better than 0.1 % is derived, which eliminates the need to execute the CTE correction code for the complete image.

The right - hand image is the same, but with contours denoting levels of increasing attenuation of the background nebular light toward the central star.

The lovely RL Fisher Cotton Ocean Star Tie - Up Valance features images of large, printed starfish on a vibrant background.

The star attraction, by far, is the photo mode, in which you can pose your Mii, use custom backgrounds, and add text in order to create all manner of ludicrous images.

4.30 - 4.45 pm Screening of Maya Deren's The Very Eye of the Night (1958) in which a shimmering constellation of stars establishes the background for negative images of figures resembling Greek Gods superimposed on and magically transported along the Milky Way.