Sentences with phrase «sky objects such»
Many will know Newton for his stunning astrophotographs and CCD images of deep - sky objects such as the nebulae and galaxies.
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Young supernova remnants such as Cassiopeia A are among the most beautiful objects in the X-ray sky.
Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.
This will allow it to produce images of extended objects in the night sky such as giant cosmic clouds of gas and dust.
A search of 70 per cent of the sky with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) has shown no planet, even though such an object should absorb sunlight and re-emit it in the infrared (New Scientist, Science, 30 November 1991).
Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.
A recent analysis based on a sky mapping project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, which discovered more than 800 new «trans - Neptunian objects,» suggests that the evidence also could be consistent with a random distribution of such objects.
Scorpius X-1, (catalog number Sco X-1), brightest X-ray source in the sky, the first such object discovered in the direction of the constellation Scorpius.
«NIRES is expected to be one of the most efficient single - object, near - infrared spectrographs on an eight to ten - meter telescope, designed to study explosive, deep sky phenomena such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts, a capability that is in high demand.»
It is a process that develops slowly across time when one object in the sky moves into the shadow of another such object.
Astronomers don't dream about stars, skies, or galaxies, but they explore and learn about them, bring out the facts related to such enigmatic stellar objects.
The sculpture pulls the sky down to the earth in a sublime union of the elemental forces of landscape; presenting a proposition about space and the nature of the object that is such a central enquiry in Kapoor's work.
HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a technique used in digital photography as a method of dealing with scenes that include both bright and dark areas, such as an object in shadow in front of a bright sky.