Sentences with phrase «nebulous object»

Like Galileo, Hershel also noted that some nebulous objects could be resolved into stars and believed for a while that all nebular objects could be so resolved.

The catalogue included almost 10,000 southern stars, 42 nebulous objects, and 14 new constellations, now known as the Lacaille family.

Not exact matches

In keeping with all the rest of Ceres's oddball uncertainties, the findings hold major albeit nebulous implications for our understanding of the dwarf planet and its relationship to the other large objects in our solar system.

According to Ronald Stoyan of Germany, position and description given by Abbe Lacaille in his catalog indicate that he described this object as his «Nebulous Star» No.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

Found objects, artifacts and detailed descriptions for concoctions produced during astronomical events by Miss Peale, Founder of the Society for Nebulous Knowledge, 2004.