Sentences with phrase «light around other star»

Not exact matches

The scope's light - collecting capacity — made possible with almost 800 mirror segments just 50 millimeters thick — will allowastronomers to detect Earth - like planets around other stars, measure the properties of the universe's first stars and galaxies, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

It was a brilliant paper about how you could find planets around other stars by measuring the light from those stars.

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

While other techniques are best at finding planets around nearby sun - like stars, gravitational microlensing can study any star up to 20,000 light years away.

The telescopes also were key parts of an international program to look for planets around other stars by means of gravitational microlensing, in which the gravity of a small object passing in front of a star briefly amplifies the star's light.

It will also allow us to understand the mechanisms that may be going on around other stars, given the Sun is the easiest to study because it's significantly closer than the other stars (4.3 light years being th next closest).

It is also the only telescope and instrument in the world — in space or on Earth — that is capable of measuring reflected light from planets orbiting around other stars.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

The movie is both a star vehicle and an ensemble piece; the other actors revolve around Newman yet give off more than just his reflected light.

The glammiest scenes of the film are as wild as Haynes has ever gotten, with Maryse Alberti using stage lighting to dim everything around its roman - à - clef rock stars to maximum the chromatic pop of their outlandish costumes and the frenzy of their sexual liberation, which goes one further than the heterosexual revolution of the «50s and «60s by venturing into other orientations.

It's difficult to notice, really, since new lead Lucas Black (Jarhead, Friday Night Lights) resembles the star of the other two films, Paul Walker, as well as the film following the same basic plot revolving around the arena of street racing.

Interestingly, last year, SoftBank unveiled two Sharp phones in Japan with Star Wars theme (one for the light side, and other for the dark side) around the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.