Sentences with phrase «star along the line of sight»

If we live in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, he reasoned, then we should see a star along all lines of sight.

The giveaway is a slight but regular slowing and speeding of the star along the line of sight as it's tugged by the planet's gravity.

Not exact matches

Follow - up images and analyses, posted June 30 at arXiv.org, showed that light is probably from a single bright blue star that coincidentally was behind the galaxy cluster, aligned along Hubble's line of sight.

The spectra revealed each star's velocity along our line of sight, because a star moving towards us shows a blue shift in its spectrum, whereas a star moving away from us shows a red shift.

For the transit method to work, a planet must pass almost perfectly along our line of sight, the chances of which are around 0.5 percent for an Earth - sized planet (in an Earth - sized orbit) and 10 percent for a Jupiter - sized planet (if it orbits near its star)[source: Ames Research Center, FAQ].

Observation: During a solar eclipse you see that the stars along the same line of sight as the Sun are shifted «outward».

Messier object number 24 is not a «true» deep sky object, but a huge star cloud in Milky Way, a pseudo-cluster of stars spread thousands of light years along the line of sight, perceived through a chance tunnel in the interstellar dust.