Sentences with phrase «single point of light»

At a distance of 5,500 light years, the blue straggler binary appears as a single point of light, but by analyzing the amount of ultraviolet light, the researchers saw the unmistakable signal of a white dwarf.

Confocal microscopy uses a single point of light, usually a laser beam, to scan a sample into a series of optical sections, building up each image pixel by pixel.

In seven of the observations, Gaia was able to make out both the dwarf planet and its moon, but only saw a single point of light in the other two.

If cosmologists are correct, every single point of light in the night sky bears the imprint of dark matter.

Each lens pointed in a different direction, and each resolved a full image on the retina rather than contributing a single point of light to the final image.

A dense, brilliant blue star and a diffuse, bloated red star orbit perilously close to one another, merging into a single point of light.

The two stars are too close together to be individually resolved by Hubble and instead appear as a single point of light at the center of the nebula.

To the unaided eye, the two main components appear as a single point of light with an apparent visual magnitude of − 0.27, forming the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus and is the third - brightest star in the night sky, outshone only by Sirius and Canopus.

From Earth, Alpha Centauri appears as a single point of light: It's one of the brightest stars in the southern sky.

Thus the star seen as a single point of light to the human eye is in fact triple.