Sentences with phrase «tiny bright patch»
The name NGC 3503 however, only refers to a tiny bright patch of this nebula.
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The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.