Sentences with phrase «only fainter stars»

Not exact matches

Simply put, the object they seek is not only small but exceedingly faint compared with the blazing star nearby.

Because these extremely faint stars are brightest at near - infrared wavelengths of light, the team emphasized that this type of observation could only be accomplished with Hubble's infrared sensitivity to extraordinarily dim light.

This galaxy was only partially digested, and a faint stream of stars was still hemorrhaging from it.

Unfortunately, the fact that planets can be seen only when they happen to be in the line of sight between star and telescope means that many stars must be observed, and Kepler increases its stellar haul by monitoring even the faintest stars.

The fact that they found none heavier than 18 times the Sun's mass suggests these heavier stars may not produce supernovae, or that they only produce very faint ones that are too dim to detect, the team says.

So the search for the oldest living stars is the search for those with only the faintest of impurities, usually expressed as the ratio of iron to hydrogen.

We searched for a counterpart in Hubble Space Telescope ACS / WFC archived images and found at least 11 candidates, of which we could characterize only the 7 brightest, including one with a 3 sigma H - alpha excess and a faint blue star.

Planets are small and faint compared to their host stars; only a few have been observed directly outside our solar system.

They are so faint that they are invisible to the naked eye, and famous red dwarfs like Kapteyn's star can only be seen with binoculars.

It was originally detected by its gravitational attraction on the larger, brighter star and only later observed visually as a faint object (now called Sirius B), about 10,000 times fainter than Sirius (now called Sirius A) or 500 times fainter than the Sun.

This extremely faint star system of two, very small and dim, red dwarf stars is located only about 14.2 light - years away.

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.

The disk is fainter than the star because its dust only reflects light.

NGC 188, a very old open cluster (estimated 5 billion years old), showed only 10 to 20 faint stars.

Not only are these planets intrinsically faint, they also orbit very bright host stars.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

Since Director William Oldroyd's reputation is on the line with his first full - length movie, he is fortunate in starring Florence Pugh as title character, a woman whose prior film experience has been only in «The Falling,» wherein she played a charismatic pupil in a 1969 English girls» school faced with a mysterious fainting epidemic.

Though The Disaster Artist is nominally an adaption of the same - titled book by Wiseau's former roommate and co-star Greg Sestero and the critic and journalist Tom Bissell, the movie bears only faint traces of its characterization of the secretive, self - made filmmaker; the exclusion of any biographical details (many of which are now public knowledge) leaves yawning gaps in the script, which was written by the duo of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days Of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault In Ours Stars, etc.).