[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.
Then you carefully measure the temperature of deep space, where the only heat
is the faint glow remaining from the Big Bang.
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.
The cosmic microwave background
is a faint glow that pervades the entire sky, dating back to just 380,000 years after the big bang.
Not exact matches
Similarly, says Kierkegaard, while we enjoy our worldly comforts, we get a
faint emotional
glow from the reading of the Jesus whom we would never
be so foolish as to obey.
It actually
glows, but the green
glow is so
faint in the light that you can't see it.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the
faint, ghostly
glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that
were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.
However, the predicted «intracluster»
glow of stars
is very
faint and
was therefore a challenge to identify.
But just as important
is what can't
be seen: the
fainter glows from smaller black holes, slowly putting on weight, as expected if supermassive black holes
were born star - sized and grew gradually.
February 28: The zodiacal light — the
faint glow of sunlight reflected off interplanetary dust —
is easiest to see about now.
Astronomers expected them to
be the tip of the stellar iceberg, their light overwhelming the
faint glow emitted by vast numbers of more...
They
were left with a
faint, nearly uniform
glow that exceeded the inherent instrumental error.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — About 1 % of the light that strikes plants
is re-emitted as a
faint, fluorescent
glow — a measure of photosynthetic activity.
A few weeks later both the Hubble telescope and ground - based telescopes found a
faint visible
glow precisely where the now - vanished burst had
been.
They
are nearly impossible to see relying on visible light, but with the infrared vision of NASA's WISE space telescope, researchers finally detected the
faint glow of six Y dwarfs relatively close to our sun, within a distance of about 40 light - years.
By stacking all of those points on top of one another, the researchers combined the
faint x-ray
glow from the heart of hundreds of galaxies, which
were undetectable individually, into a brighter aggregate (see photo inset).
Based on the infrared signature of the
faint light, they found to their surprise that the
glow seems to
be created by second - and third - generation stars — stars created out of gas and dust that has
been cooked in the hearts of very large, short - lived stars.
The
glow seemed consistent with the size and shape of the matter needed to make ngc 5907 spin the way it does, so astronomers hoped that this might
be the first sign that the dark halos
were made of ordinary stars and planets — albeit
faint ones — rather than exotic, yet - to -
be discovered particles.
Using ALMA's ability to detect the
faint millimeter - wavelength «
glow» emitted by gas molecules, Isella and his team discovered that there
was also an appreciable dip in the amount of CO in the outer two dust gaps.
This discovery
is a vital clue in a 30 - year - old mystery: identifying the source of a
faint infrared
glow that permeates the Milky Way and other galaxies.
At that wavelength an Earth - like planet would
glow like a lightbulb, although it would still appear millions of times
fainter than its sunlike star — but that
's still better than billions of times
fainter, as it would
be in visible light.
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 gas
glows because young, extremely hot stars like these
are emitting intense ultraviolet light which strips the surrounding gas of its electrons and causes it to emit the
faint glow seen in this image.
They found 47
faint smudges: galaxies that could
be at least as large as the Milky Way, but which contain so few stars that they
glow as dimly as dwarf galaxies.
The
faint glow is a telltale sign of dust warmed by the young dwarf's heat, Luhman says.
But about 1 % of them
are re-emitted as a
faint red
glow.
The paint itself
glows a
faint red when it
's put under blue or ultraviolet light.
But this might
be limited to thin layers of cells in laboratory settings, since the visible light emitted by the diamond probes — a
faint green
glow — does not penetrate whole human tissue very well.
When a neutrino collides with an atomic nucleus, a new particle called a muon
is produced, which emits a
faint blue
glow in the transparent ice that the DOMs can detect.
Herschel
is sensitive to very long wavelength infrared light, allowing the telescope to pick up the
faint thermal
glow of dust just 25 °C above absolute zero.
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.
ALMA
was able to observe the
faint millimeter - wavelength «
glow» emitted by the object, confirming it
is roughly 635 kilometers across.
The
glowing apparition
is known to amateur astronomers as the «Little Ghost Nebula,» because it appears as a small, ghostly cloud surrounding the
faint, dying central star.
«We
were able to separate the light of the
faint planet from the light of the much brighter star and to see that they
were both growing and
glowing in this very distinct shade of red.»
The ALMA radio telescope array
was able to observe the
faint millimeter - wavelength «
glow» emitted by DeeDee, confirming the object
is roughly 395 miles (635 kilometers across).
As the matter forming the brown dwarf becomes compressed by gravitational forces, enough heat
is produced to make the surface
glow a very
faint orange or deep red.
The
faint images of the
glow from 12 dark galaxies
are labelled with blue circles.
A
faint pink
glow emanated from the dozen Himalayan salt lamps placed around the floor, which, I should note,
was covered in pink salt crystals.
Using mostly a half - French, half - Japanese cast and crew, with locations restricted to Nevers, France, and the titular city, Resnais» film
is an intense, intimate film: poetic dialogue, newsreel images of Hiroshima bomb victims, intense physical foreplay, a revolutionary flashback structure, political subtext, and a decisively striking use of modernistic Japanese architecture, contrasted with roughly hewn and ornately decorated stone homes in Nevers, France collectively evoke a dreamlike atmosphere, as a romance
is joined during its fiery rise, and left when the morning embers offer a mere
faint and dusty
glow.
Glowing objects
are set to guide you through these sections but
are too
faint to
be able to see half the time, and too many times I land of the edge of the platform and not the center, causing for yet another frustrating death.
Even more distinctive than shape
is the fact that when the device
is powered on, you can see a
faint glow of red laser light around the port door.
There
's not much we can discern of the product
's design, aside from fairly chunky screen bezels, a duo of capacitive buttons and what seems like a
faint shade of «gold - copper»
glowing from the concealed rear cover.