Sentences with phrase «pinprick stars»
Not exact matches
A WORLD NEXT DOOR Proxima Centauri casts a reddish glow over the surface of Proxima b (illustrated), the closest exoplanet to Earth, while two companion stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, appear as bright pinpricks of light.
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Each of the 14,370 pinpricks of light in this x-ray image is a hot, young star in the Carina Nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust some 7500 light - years from Earth where new stars are being born.
According to Graney, Marius concluded that his observations showed that the stars were too close to Earth to satisfy the Copernican world view — which says that the stars lie at a huge distance from Earth, and so would appear as starry pinpricks to any observer.
Stars everywhere in diamond pinpricks.
Clutching my wind - up flashlight in the darkness, I walked beneath the pinpricks of unfamiliar stars to the Gunyah, an indoor - outdoor wood - and — corrugated - iron restaurant that serves as the hotel's centerpiece.