Sentence examples for dim object from inspiring English sources
The discoverers said the dim object was most likely a cluster of newborn stars, a kind of baby galaxy one-200th the size of the Milky Way, that formed when the universe, estimated to be 14 billion years old, was still a youthful 600 million years old and stars were a relatively new phenomenon.
Most telescopes capable of seeing a dim object at such distances, such as the Hubble Space Telescope or the 10-meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii, have extremely tiny fields of view.
As a dim object drifts across the line of sight to the star, its gravity acts like a single magnifying glass slowly passing in front of a distant streetlight.
Was it possible that the dim objects, suggested by the lensing observations, could be the galactic dark matter?
In the glare of their parent stars, however, such small, dim objects would not be easy to detect directly in images made with telescopes from Earth's vicinity.
Extrasolar planets were not expected to be easy to see directly with Earth-based telescopes because such small and dim objects would usually be obscured in the glare of the stars that they orbit.
Other astronomers, including Dr. Kenneth Lanzetta of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, have found extremely dim objects that may turn out to be even more distant than the new quasar, but most astronomers believe that those findings remain uncertain.
While some of it is gas or dark dim objects like stars and planets, cosmologists speculate that most of it is subatomic particles left over from the Big Bang.
Astronomers are debating how to describe strange, dim objects in the constellation Orion.
Besides discovering thousands of distant, dim objects such as brown dwarfs, Gaia's sensors will likely detect hundreds of thousands of comets, asteroids, and other minor bodies in our solar system, the researchers say.
The planet was discovered with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, which is especially adept at finding dim objects in the night sky.
