Sentences with phrase «of faint stars»

Those highlights are set against a backdrop of billions of faint stars and galaxies.

On 19 July, Pluto passed in front of a faint star in the Milky Way galaxy — an event known as a stellar occultation.

To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.

We once thought that dark matter might be made up of large objects such as black holes or exotic types of faint stars — neutron stars or white dwarfs — that are nearly invisible to our telescopes.

«You need a long time baseline to accurately measure the positions and the motions of these faint stars.»

This factor is estimated from the counts of faint stars in the CoRoT fields (Fig. 7 in Deleuil et al. 2009), comparing them at the dominant magnitude for both contaminants in CoRoT and the sample analyzed by Brown.

Up to half of early breast cancers contain little clusters of microcalcifications, tiny deposits of calcium that on a mammogram look like a constellation of faint stars.

There are roughly 1400 star systems within this volume of space containing 2000 stars, so this map only shows the brightest 10 % of all the star systems, but most of the fainter stars are red dwarfs.

TrES - 5 orbits one of the faintest stars with transiting planets found to date from the ground and demonstrates that precise photometry and followup spectroscopy are possible, albeit challenging, even for such faint stars.

If, on the other hand, you venture out on a night that is moonless, you will see hundreds, even thousands of fainter stars that were invisible to you when the Moon was out.

High in the remote Andes of central Chile, the night sky is so dark that the constellations are hard to see, swallowed up in swarms of fainter stars.

To measure precise stellar velocities, the white light of each of these faint stars must be subdivided into thousands of wavelengths.