Sentences with phrase «is some faint background»

Typically, this third star is brighter than the binary and corresponds to the observing target, whereas the binary is a faint background system.

It's a faint background scent that invites you to relax.

There is no music or dialogue, and the only sound we hear is some faint background noise.

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In one of the scariest movies ever made, director William Friedkin uses his background as a documentary filmmaker to create horror that feels so real, some people fainted while watching the movie when it was first in theaters.

Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.

Faint in the banners» background were the names of nearly 1,200 campuses represented in the audience.

The deep blue background with that faint text is too hard on the eyes.

My conscious life is but a faint light shining out of a background of powers, processes, events, and memories.

Not only was the texture PERFECT, the oatmeal - quinoa flake mixture had this faint coconut flavor in the background, and with the super-duper injection of fiber, I was full straight through lunch.

Furthermore the chocolate chips melted seamlessly into the sweet binder, so the major flavour was from the tart cherries with a faint chocolate background.

The spiral galaxy M101 takes center stage in this photo from the Dragonfly telescope, but astronomers are also interested in the fainter galaxies lurking in the background.

[6] Cosmic - infrared background radiation, similar to the more famous cosmic microwave background, is a faint glow in the infrared part of the spectrum that appears to come from all directions in space.

«Measurements of the extragalactic background radiation are always hard to get, because this signal is very faint and, as a result, its detection is strongly dependent on how well one can remove the sources of contamination,» says Angelica De Oliveira - Costa, an expert on cosmic background observations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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.

Other astronomers say the method of pulling faint planetary signals out of background noise needs to be verified.

These primordial gravitational waves are too faint to be detectable directly, but it should be possible to see their imprint on the relic radiation from the big bang — the cosmic microwave background.

The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, or CMB for short, is a faint glow of light that fills the universe, falling on Earth from every direction with nearly uniform intensity.

«It's very difficult to see these faint moving objects in front of thousands and thousands of background stars,» Parker says.

Still, the zodiacal light illuminates the heavens there and obscures faint objects; it is the main diffuse background at visible wavelengths.

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.

The cosmic microwave background is a faint glow that pervades the entire sky, dating back to just 380,000 years after the big bang.

Working with a tough mentor named Yakov Zel «dovich, Sunyaev showed that the tiny acoustic vibrations in the universe moments after the Big Bang could be observed as temperature and density variations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang that suffuses the universe.

[4] Gravitational lensing magnifies the light from fainter, background objects, allowing Hubble to spy galaxies it would otherwise not be able to detect.

Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics noted that some forms of quantum gravity predict certain asymmetries — one direction of polarization might be favored over another — that could be imprinted in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a faint echo of radiation from the early universe.

We note that the population of background stars in CoRoT is 3 mag fainter than those of Brown.

Previously, the most precise test of cosmological models came from measurements with the European Space Agency's Planck satellite of what is known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- a faint glow in the sky emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

Lightning might be too faint to stand out above background or too deep to be seen through the thick clouds.

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.

By combining these color data, it is possible to make a crude estimate of the distances to the faint background galaxies (called photometric redshift).

Their absorption measurements using 24 faint background galaxies provided sufficient coverage of a small patch of the sky to be combined into a 3D map of the foreground cosmic web.

Here's an article to help you see faint stuff in the night sky using a range of techniques such as averted vision, movement and looking out for subtle changes in background contrast.

The map was created by using faint background galaxies as light sources, against which gas could be seen by the characteristic absorption features of hydrogen.

The extremely dry, cold air is perfectly suited for observing Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation - the faint light signature left by the Big Bang that brought the universe into being nearly 14 billion years ago.

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.

However, it's one of the best spots on the planet for surveying the faint cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation left over from the Big Bang.

Alright, alright, so that was a little dramatic, borderline soap opera cheesy with the faint music in the background.

The opening shot of the new polished compressor is accompanied by a typical supercharger whine, with only the faint sound of angry V8 exhaust noise in the background it sounds decidedly eerie.

They use the so - called e-ink screens, which is very crisp black text against this faint grayish background.

On a few of my calls, I heard a faint hiss in the background — I don't think this is an issue with the Bold's hardware, though, because I've heard this hiss on other T - Mobile devices.

I usually switch the partial refresh to 1 page because I don't like to see faint text in the background, but with the Aura I just leave it at the new default, which is to refresh fully once at the start of a new chapter.

The exhibition title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang and is the name Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the National Security Agency that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

A large canvas by Agnes Martin, who considered herself an Abstract Expressionist — although her work is closely aligned with Minimalism — consists of faint, hand - ruled graphite lines on an off - white background.

Schneider's backgrounds are night - black, with dominant figures (sometimes in watery deeps) that include a one - eyed woman in a bathing suit with a crescent moon, a horned staring mask, a baboon holding a houseplant and a tree with outlines of faint avian creatures on its branches, titled «Tree of Ghosts.»

Alone on the white background, they are faint — almost indiscernible.

Or, as in the example below, there's a faint halo around the head as it separates foreground from background.

Sword slices and gut punches landed with satisfying impact, and even faint noises, such as the sound of background debris scattering around during battle, were easy to pick out.

However, the background pianos and faint echoes were lost in the sea of boom.