Sentences with phrase «of fainter objects»

Just as bigger telescopes collect more light and enable viewing of fainter objects, increasing the mass of germanium allows for a greater probability of observing the rare decay.

It is one of the faintest objects in the sky, discovered using a 25» Schmidt camera in 1952 by G.A Shajn and V.E. Hase at the Crimean Astrophyical Observatory at Simeis (in the former U.S.S.R).

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«We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer Solar System, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»

The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.

As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

Observations of SN 1987A with the COSTAR - corrected Faint Object Camera.

Hubble captured images of the galaxy in visible and infrared light, witnessing a new bright object within NGC 4993 that was brighter than a nova but fainter than a supernova.

Human eyeballs aren't the best detectors of faint and distant astronomical objects.

It's a mature object, not surrounded by the clumps of light - blocking debris that accompany stellar infants — and yet overall it has grown fainter over the past four years.

Though astronomers still do not know what kinds of events or objects produce FRBs, the discovery is a stepping stone for astronomers to understand the diffuse, faint web of material that exists between galaxies, called the cosmic web.

Judging from images of these far - flung galaxies, they found the Milky Way likely began as faint, blue, low - mass object containing lots of gas.

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way 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.

Scientists have now had a first look at most of the survey area, but data from the next three years of the survey will likely allow them to find objects that are even fainter, more diffuse or farther away.

To help pull in faint objects, Chandra contains a series of nested mirrors that each funnel X-rays to a sharp focus at its narrow end, where a camera sits.

«Spitzer allowed us to see really faint objects so that we could do a census of all the star - forming regions out to 3,000 light - years.

We also found that it has a dark red colour, similar to objects in the outer Solar System, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it.»

XMM - Newton is on a distended orbit that takes it one - third of the way to the moon; this keeps it out of Earth's shadow long enough to stay pointed at — and collecting photons from — the same faint object for more than a day.

A material that filters visible light according to its direction of travel could make it easier to photograph faint objects

We train our telescopes on small patches of sky for long spells, trying to drink in as much faint light from distant objects as possible.

In August a group of European astronomers nominated another, fainter Pleiades object, Teide 1, as a more solid brown - dwarf candidate, with just 7 percent of the sun's mass.

Two weeks out of every four are effectively lost because of moonlight: it severely limits observations of the deep sky and the measurement of light from faint objects.

Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe.

If those objects are bigger than Jupiter, longer exposures with NICMOS could reveal them as faint points of light, notes team member Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Though Hubble and Spitzer have detected other galaxies that are record - breakers for distance, this object represents a smaller, fainter class of newly forming galaxies that until now have largely evaded detection.

«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Even in the best telescopic views such a small and distant object just appears as a faint point of light.

The astronomers scanned photographic plates covering 750 square degrees of sky, picking out faint objects.

So Anita Cochran of the University of Texas and her colleagues turned to the Hubble telescope's Wide Field / Planetary Camera, which can spot much fainter objects.

The team used the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope to thoroughly study the visible wavelength spectrum (Note 1) of the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB, Note 2), which is a violent explosion of a massive star.

This rapid surveying — along with the ability to detect objects 100 times fainter than current surveys — will allow it to find 99 % of NEOs bigger than 300 metres.

Astronomers would like to know the size distribution of all objects in the belt — information that would help describe the composition and collisional history of the objects — but today's telescopes simply can not pick out the faintest KBOs.

«It's very difficult to see these faint moving objects in front of thousands and thousands of background stars,» Parker says.

Maybe it was just large accumulations of dim but familiar objects, like extremely faint red stars or white dwarfs, some astronomers speculated.

For example, an instrument on one satellite could block the glare of the sun or a distant star, making it possible for a camera on the other to image faint objects such as the sun's ghostly corona or exoplanets orbiting a star.

In earlier observations, emission from two or more faint objects often was blurred or blended into what appeared to be a single, stronger source of radio waves.

However, the researchers pointed out, the remaining 4 percent of the radio emission could be coming from as many as 100 billion very faint objects.

Pérez - González said they will use the instrument to observe a section of HUDF in 5.6 microns, which Spitzer is capable of, but that Webb will be able to see objects 250 times fainter and with eight times more spatial resolution.

Instead of looking at distant and faint objects for long periods to get enough light, LSST will look at things that change fast.

But when it has been working, the 10 - metre Keck Telescope, in Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has impressed astronomers with images and spectra of objects too faint to be detected by other telescopes.

Urban glow will keep the faintest, most distant objects in the Universe out of reach.

This phenomenon increases the apparent brightness and angular size of the lensed objects, making it easier to study sources that would be otherwise too faint to probe.

David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii and Jane Luu, now at Stanford University, found a faint slow - moving object beyond the orbit of Pluto a year ago, and a second in March.

All of the thousands of brown dwarfs found so far are relatively close to the Sun, the overwhelming majority within 1500 light years, simply because these objects are faint and therefore difficult to observe.

But this newly found galaxy is significantly smaller and fainter than most of those other remote objects detected to date.

The term is a misnomer: Observing a number of vaguely round, cloudlike objects in the sky during the late 18th century, Sir William Herschel thought they resembled faint planets.

A team of astronomers led by Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands used two Spanish telescopes to find 18 faint, red objects in a cluster of stars called Sigma Orionis.

Deep Ecliptic Survey In this study, a mosaic of eight CCD detectors coupled to the 3.8 - meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, scanned for faint Kuiper belt objects as small as 30 miles in diameter.

It turns out that the number of objects goes up steeply: When you go a factor of 10 fainter, you see 100 times as many objects.

There are also two cameras - one which can achieve image resolutions 10 times greater than that of even the largest Earth - based telescope, and a second which can detect an object 50 times fainter than anything visible from Earth.