Sentences with phrase «light of the star»

The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull.

In light of Star Trek 3: The Search for More Time's production woes, let's take a took back at some other notable sequels that also had a hell of time getting to a theater near you.

The second, the cold light of the stars, symbol of hypercosmical reality, with its crystal ecstasy.

Where strong exozodical light was present they were able to fully resolve the extended discs of dust, and separate their faint glow from the dominant light of the star [3].

While Webb looks at the bright star, grisms in the filter wheel will spread the white light of the star out on a detector.

If a planet transits directly across one of these features, it's back - lit by a different light than the average light of the star.

The beautiful, glittering light of the stars are almost yours alone with The Venue.

He could have created an actual «firmament» with holes in it for the light of the stars and for the rain to leak through from the water outside (of the stars).

Stapledon closes his book with the suburban Londoner disengaging himself from the cosmic «I,» returning to earth, again poised between the light of the stars and the light glowing from the window of his home:

Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard.

The light of the star was the light of reason that brought them to God made man, not in the splendour and dignity of a palatial throne, but in a poor and wretched manger.

The idea is to blot out the light of a star and zero in on a small planet, right next to it in the sky and 10 billion times fainter (at visible wavelengths) than it.

Called VISIR, the instrument will be equipped with a coronagraph — a mask to block out the light of the star so that the much fainter planets can be seen.

A chance to get a close look is coming soon: Kervella's team mapped out the system's trajectory and found that in a decade, Alpha Centauri A will pass in front of a more distant star and act as a gravitational lens, distorting the light of the star behind it.

Europe's Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) and the U.S. - backed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) are attached to big telescopes in Chile and employ sophisticated masks, called coronagraphs, to block out the light of the star.

The element leaves a clear signal in the light of a star, so Israelian's results provide an efficient way to sort through large numbers of stars and decide which ones to focus on for the more detailed studies needed to find planets.

The team believes this contradiction could be explained if the planet was embedded in a large cloud of dusty material, which scatters the light of the star.

When that happens, the object's gravity focuses the light of the star, which then looks brighter than normal for a few weeks or months.

The instrument, called a spectrometer, breaks apart the light of the star and planet, ultimately exposing chemicals that make up the planet's atmosphere.

Seager mentions the possibility of using stellar suppression techniques in the future, a process in which blocking the light of the star from the vantage point of a telescope allows the instrument to gather more light from the planet or planets around that star.

Subtle movements of gravity cause the light of a star to move toward the blue end of the light spectrum, which means it's moving toward us, or the red end of the spectrum, which means it's moving away.

The revolutions in physics that laid bare the beautiful structure of the universe «can explain the light of stars, but not the lights that shine from planet Earth,» Hawking said.

The effects of gravitational lensing distorting the light of the star are not shown here.

«I got seven frames where the light of the star is gone,» he says.

Observations of the star KIC 8462852 by NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes suggest that its unusual light signals are likely from dusty comet fragments, which blocked the light of the star as they passed in front of it in 2011 and 2013.

It will monitor the light of these stars, looking out for small dips in brightness.

This illustration shows a star behind a shattered comet which blocked the light of the star as they passed in front o...

The method that was used, i.e. a spectroscopic analysis, consists in separating the light of the stars in its different frequencies in order to obtain information on the star's chemical composition.

Planets shine — to our eyes on Earth — by reflecting the light of stars.

The interstellar dust generally dims the light of stars behind it.

The gravity from the closer objects would bend the light of the star behind them.

By the light of the stars, he made his way to the steps that zigzagged up the steep hillside, and began to climb.

The light of the stars is o damn stark / When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space... Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake / No promises to keep and none to make.

The outside seating availability means you can wine and dine under the light of the stars while enjoying live music entertainment.

On The Night Tour in Drake Bay, Costa Rica, you'll have the opportunity to witness an impressive set of nocturnal species in their natural rainforest habitat, all by the light of the stars and a headlamp.

because of an orange avarice ray, or seeing the Joker show genuine affection and concern for Batman after being affected by the light of the Star Sapphires, is genuinely entertaining and used to great effect during the many cut scenes.

«Tonight we were at the McDonald Observatory,» Donald Judd wrote in a note from October 12, 1987, «You look at the sky at once, but the light of the stars you see are all different, all being seen as different times.»

Installation shot How does one begin to capture what it feels like to sail directly into the ambiguous, guided only by the light of the stars and the moon?

«Our study explains why it often happens that we describe species which were collected alive decades ago and which can be extinct now — just as astronomers study the light of stars which do not exist anymore.»