Sentences with phrase «large objects in the background»

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Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

The cluster is so massive that its powerful gravity bends the light from galaxies far behind it, making background objects appear larger and brighter in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

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.

A shallow depth of field (smaller f - stop number) will only focus on the objects in the foreground and leave the background blurry and a wider depth of field (larger f - stop number) will produce an image with more of the background in focus.

A painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Sultan is regarded for his ongoing large - scale painted still lifes featuring structural renderings of fruit, flowers, and other everyday objects, often abstracted and set against a rich, black background; but he is also noted for his significant industrial landscape series that began in the early 1980s entitled the Disaster Paintings, on which the artist worked for nearly a decade.

Images of everyday things like eyeglasses and cigarette packs appear larger - than - life, creating cinematic inversions of foreground and background in which otherwise unremarkable objects take on a looming (and often sharply comical) significance.Info: David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., Los Angeles, Duration: 9/9-21 / 10/17, Days & Hours: Tue - Sat 10:00 - 18:00, http://davidkordanskygallery.com