Sentences with phrase «too faint»

Downstairs in the gallery, three large photographs titled «Dark Star», after a point of light in the universe too faint for direct observation.

In ambient light, And I Can't Run appears to show a muddle of onlookers; the scene they observe is too faint to make out.

Glowing objects are set to guide you through these sections but are too faint to be able to see half the time, and too many times I land of the edge of the platform and not the center, causing for yet another frustrating death.

ASUS» keyboard also supports optional haptic feedback, but the feedback is not adjustable and is too faint for our tastes.

When I played videos, the Fire's audio seemed too faint; but that appeared to be a software problem, not a hardware problem.

You'd typically see white smoke (steam) coming out of the tail pipe, but it could be too faint to notice if the leak isn't large.

Like many before it, The Last Jedi has already been hailed as the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back, and while that's true, it's too faint a compliment.

However, most stars that we study are too faint for this system — there are not enough letters in the Greek alphabet to name the 13,234 th brightest star in Orion!.

Unfortunately, however, no single SFR estimator is universally available or even applicable in all circumstances: the numerous galaxies found in deep surveys are often too faint (or too distant) to yield significant detections with most standard SFR measures, and until now there have been no global, multi-band observations of nearby galaxies that span all the conditions under which star - formation is taking place.

Both Sedna and 2012 VP113 were found near their closest approach to the Sun, but they both have orbits that go out to hundreds of AU, at which point they would be too faint to discover.

Observations from large ground - based telescopes will continue until the object becomes too faint to be detected, sometime after mid-December.

This is because many of the inner Oort cloud objects are so distant that even very large ones would be too faint to detect with current technology,» says Sheppard.

The remaining examples are mostly named after astronomers, the best known are probably Barnard's Star (which has the highest known proper motion of any star and is thus notable even though it is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye), Kapteyn's Star and recently Tabby's Star.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

Individually, those filaments were too faint to see.

However, DX Cancri is much too faint to be seen with the naked eye.

The sample number was progressively reduced to 129 KOIs on 125 target stars, by removing already known false positives, stars too faint to be observed by SOPHIE, and candidates with orbits of more than 400 days, to insure that at least 3 transits could be observed.

Despite the relative proximity of this system to Earth, however, a star with such a low mass would probably be too faint to be detected through visual observation because of glare from the brighter stars.

It is an obvious group of galaxies because it contains several of the brightest galaxies in the sky (although they are all too faint to be seen with the naked eye).

According to Troja, the X-ray signal, spotted nine days after LIGO's first detection, would've been too faint for any other X-ray telescopes to see.

For the casual astronomer, you won't be able to spot the planet or its stars, as they're too faint to be spotted with the naked eye.

At least one of the three stars is a flare star, but all three are too faint to be seen with the naked eye.

Unfortunately most of those planets and planet candidates are around stars that are too faint for these observations, so we need a plethora of close - in planets around bright stars.

While, the newly discovered galaxies are 100 times more numerous than their more massive cousins, they are 100 times fainter than galaxies detected in previous deep - field surveys of the early universe, and normally too faint for Hubble to see.

It is possible, of course, that evolution's early traces have become too faint to decipher.

Lightning might be too faint to stand out above background or too deep to be seen through the thick clouds.

The F ring remains too faint to see here without enhancing the contrast of the image.

This galaxy is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky, and although it is too faint to see with the naked eye, it is an easy galaxy to find with binoculars if you know where to look.

This brightening fluctuation can reveal the planet, which can be too faint, in some cases, to be seen by telescopes.

By comparing the brightness of distant, far - away supernovae with the brightness of nearby supernovae, the scientists discovered that the far - away supernovae were about 25 percent too faint.

Odd, she thought, since the machine used low - energy infrared light, too faint to be visible to humans.

«What we really want to know is the relative rate of superluminous supernovae to normal supernovae, but we can't yet make that comparison because normal supernovae are too faint to see at that distance.

It is too faint to tell for now, but if Segue 2 has a tail of stars streaming away from it into the Milky Way, that's strong proof for the tidal stripping scenario, says Kirby.

«In principle, you can see very early times in the universe [with GRBs], when everything else was too faint,» says Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in the UK, a member of a team that used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to make one of the first measurements of the distance of the burst.

With iSHELL, researchers can observe many comets that used to be considered too faint.

Looking into the distant, early universe, we would expect dwarf galaxies to be numerous but also too faint to see.

Or the signal from a collision may be too faint because the crash occurred too far away.

The authors say that sky surveys had missed this object because it's too faint.

A comet usually too faint to be seen with the naked eye has brightened by a factor of a million since Tuesday, suggesting its surface may have cracked open and expelled clouds of dust and gas.

This phenomenon increases the apparent brightness and angular size of the lensed objects, making it easier to study sources that would be otherwise too faint to probe.

But when it has been working, the 10 - metre Keck Telescope, in Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has impressed astronomers with images and spectra of objects too faint to be detected by other telescopes.

This allows Hubble to see galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to observe and makes it possible to search for, and study, the very first generation of galaxies in the Universe.

These stars are too faint for TESS's small telescopes to see, but they could give the JWST valuable targets, says Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium, which is leading the project.

It has now been four centuries since Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope toward this awesome sight and noted that the «milk» is actually countless individual stars, too faint to be separated by the naked eye.

Y dwarfs are too faint to be detected by visible - light telescopes, but NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite, which can sense infrared heat, picked them up easily.

The team, she says, «have developed a wonderful pathway for understanding planet candidates orbiting stars that are too faint for the traditional planet confirmation method.»

Even so, it is too faint for the naked eye.

According to the research, about 90 percent of galaxies in the observable universe are too faint and too far away to be seen with present - day telescopes.

The mysterious mass of the halo of at least one galaxy thus comes from relatively dim bulbs that were simply too faint for earlier generations of instruments to detect.

WISE 0855 is too faint for conventional spectroscopy at optical or near - infrared wavelengths, but thermal emission from the deep atmosphere at wavelengths in a narrow window around 5 microns offered an opportunity where spectroscopy would be «challenging but not impossible,» he said.