Sentence examples for dim star from inspiring English sources
But a dim star is more visible than a dark star.
This is much easier if it is a large planet in a wide orbit around a dim star.
To observers of the night sky, supernova just look like bright stars that don't appear on any star charts or that appear where a dim star was before.
The same phenomenon may be demonstrated on a moonless night if the gaze is fixed on a dim star; it disappears on fixation and reappears on looking away.
If its mass is not much below the critical 0.075 solar mass value, it will appear as a very cool, dim star known as a brown dwarf.
Tests with astronomical images show that it can find targets, such as a dim star, with an accuracy of better than 0.1 pixel under poor sky conditions.
Dim stars were clearly recorded.
Brown dwarfs are small, dim stars barely larger than the largest gas giant planets.
Under a sky full of dim stars they were only a little slower (65.2 seconds).
Even so, with current instrumentation, it is challenging to search for transiting planets around these very dim stars.
Current observations suggest that they are genuine planets, though some are merely extremely dim stars (sometimes called brown dwarfs).
