Sentences with phrase «which is a faint»

«But we know that in the past, the star, which is a faint red dwarf, was more active.

Also depicted is the parent star, which is a faint red dwarf named GJ 436.

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Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

After an MRI, a CAT scan, and an ECG, she learned there was no underlying problem — it was exhaustion which had caused her to faint, her head smashing the corner of her desk and cutting her eye.

Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.

The long strip of linen cloth known as the Turin Shroud, which bears the faint image of a crucified and beaten man, has been an enigma and an object of reverence for centuries.

This little novel tells of curious happenings in a small contemporary English village: ordinary animals and people, it seems, are suddenly turning into extraordinary creatures, into the invisible, supernatural ideas or forms of which our natural examples are but faint images.

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it alAm I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it alam I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

There is probably even an earlier anticipation in his account of the «multiplicity of Platonic forms» which is «given» for a particular actual entity: «This ordering of relevance starts from those forms which are, in the fullest sense, exemplified, and passes through grades of relevance down to those forms which in some faint sense are proximately relevant by reason of contrast with actual fact» (PR 43fC).

There are plenty of such excellent statements — formulated largely by ministers and adopted by the denominations, the Federal Council, and the World Council of Churches — to which we have as yet only faint approximations in the political and social life of the rank and file of church members.

As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

While it is easiest to grasp the prius of creativity - esse in the human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of subjectivity (which for process thinkers does not imply consciousness!)

A faint notion of the divine is dawning, which never is revealed to mere effort, not even the most persistent.

In case you've missed them, here's the little treasure trove of step - by - steps, almost all of which have made me faint.

We didn't check the temperature of ours but it was definitely cooked through with the faintest blush on the inside — which is how Michael Smith recommended it be cooked on an episode I watched where he cooked pork tenderloin ages ago.

Which is bad for several reasons — a big one being I'm 6» 2 and when I faint, the villagers have scramble out of the giantess's landing zone!)

I want to speak up in favor of the regular almond milk variety, though, because it's still subtly sweet, it's got an amazing aroma and faint taste of almonds, which makes me melt, and it's not so sweet that it knocks my socks off, makes my teeth hurt, and I wander around feeling like I'm in a sugar coma.

It looks as though the midfield pair are set to miss a sizeable chunk of the campaign, which is obviously a blow to Arsenal's faint title aspirations.

Further, the Liverpool boss added that it's unlikely that he'll have the former Southampton man at his disposal until October, although he holds faint hope that he will return ahead of schedule given his professionalism and the speed with which he has recovered previously.

The provider of the first goal, Welbeck got the faintest touch on a cross, which was then deviated past the goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis via a heavy deflection.

Arsenal fans will be hoping for a morale boosting win against Borussia Dortmund tomorrow, which would make us all feel a lot better as well as keeping alive our faint hopes of topping the Champions League group.

It's also almost completely silent when running on low - medium, and emits only a very faint white noise, which is actually soothing to most babies and ideal for a nursery.

The downside is that these do have a faint fishy smell, which may or may not be a dealbreaker; it can set off nausea for some pregnant moms.

Though both babies were healthy, mom did suffer a short fainting spell, which had also happened with a previous birth.

Damask Love has designed three adorable fruit pencil cases including strawberry, pineapple, and watermelon which you can make by updating regular blank fabric pencil cases with faint and green felt to craft a new pencil case, while each design is painted slightly differently all are easy to make.

In contrast, sometimes you'll notice a faint whitish color on your baby's tongue, which is entirely normal.

-- To which my husband always answers: «Yes, our kids watch it all day» — Not actually, I just finding it astonishing what folk think is okay to ask us but would nearly faint if we asked them the same sort of questions about their private lives and choices.

I'm not even with child, and I was with my dad just now in the hospital, who fainted while getting an IV which then caused me to almost faint.

This faint line on a home urine pregnancy test kit may be an evaporation line, which is a result of urine evaporating and drying out.

Traditional black hole seeds, on the other hand, which derive from dead stars, are likely to be too faint for the JWST or other telescopes to see.

Instead, the natural preservative star anise seed oil is used, which also gives it a faint and temporary licorice scent.

I call myself «Doctor,» but I clarify that I'm not the helpful kind, which is especially important in case someone faints on a plane.

HERA's level of sensitivity — which is one of the things that allows the instrument to collect the faint traces of light from such distant sources — will get even higher with the new grant.

«Since most of these icy worlds are incredibly small and faint, it's exciting to find a bright one that is easier to study, and which is on an interesting orbit.»

Imaging the planets themselves is extremely difficult, because their faint light is all but swamped by the glare from their star, which can be a billion times brighter.

Still, detecting the faint dip was a challenge: Other cosmic sources, such as the Milky Way, emit radio waves at much higher levels, which must be accounted for.

The instruments that will fly aboard Webb — cameras and spectrographs with detectors able to record extremely faint signals — are part of the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM), which is currently undergoing its final cryogenic vacuum test and will be integrated with the mirror later this year.

Story number 1: Human beings register incredibly faint odors coming off each other which [that] we don't realize we are smelling but affect whether or not we like the people..

But von Hippel, Gilmore and their colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope, and this allowed them to identify and measure the temperature of white dwarfs as faint as 25th magnitude, which is about 100 million times fainter than any star visible with the naked eye.

By stacking all of those points on top of one another, the researchers combined the faint x-ray glow from the heart of hundreds of galaxies, which were undetectable individually, into a brighter aggregate (see photo inset).

On the chip's surface, which is cooled to near absolute zero -LRB--- 459 degrees Fahrenheit) to eliminate thermal vibrations, two tiny aluminum cones connected by an electric field generate extremely faint sound waves that bounce back and forth.

«Earth's hydrosphere, if it even existed at the Hadean time, may have been frozen all the way down, which would have all but eliminated tidal dissipation or friction,» Zhong said, adding that a weaker, fainter young Sun could have made such conditions possible in theory.

Encouragingly, the brighter members of this new sample of faint spots, which are least likely to be caused by noise, were more likely than fainter spots to be moving in a pattern consistent with Neptune's influence.

The team used the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope to thoroughly study the visible wavelength spectrum (Note 1) of the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB, Note 2), which is a violent explosion of a massive star.

But they can be detected by a special type of apparatus: a huge tank of liquid in which rare antineutrino collisions with atomic nuclei produce faint but measurable bursts of light.

He says the Chandra X-ray Observatory may be sensitive enough to pick up an even fainter X-ray signal, which could mark the spot where the burst exploded.

Recently, astronomers have discovered a related form of supernova, called Type Iax, which look like Type Ia, but are much fainter.

As for the distant future, astronomers dream of an infrared counterpart to Gaia, which would be able to peer through the Milky Way's dust cloud into its very center, and also would excel at detecting and measuring faint red and brown dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood.

The comet, which is now about one - millionth as bright as the faintest star visible with the naked eye, can't be discerned in wide - field images taken by Rosetta's instruments.

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.