Sentence examples for more distant star from inspiring English sources

Thus, light from a more distant star would brighten and dim if a dim foreground MACHO were to pass in front of it.

In this way, an extrasolar planet can act as a gravitational lens that would focus the light from a more distant star.

But every now and then, a MACHO passes in front of a more distant star beyond the halo.

Alternatively, says Holley-Bockelmann, a roaming hole might reveal itself if it passes in front of a more distant star.

By monitoring the brightness of millions of stars at once, astronomers can tell when one star passes in front of a brighter, more distant star, gravitationally bending its light and brightening it the way a glass lens would.

Riechers notes that astronomers have confirmed the explosion of a massive and more distant star 70 million years earlier.

The stars are arranged in a flat disc, so that the more distant stars look as of they are grouped into a band, like the lights of a far-off city.

For more distant stars, indirect methods are used; most of them depend on comparing the intrinsic brightness of a star (found, for example, from its spectrum or other observable property) with its apparent brightness.

Some stellar systems with so-called invisible companions are binaries; these companions might be detected through changes in the proper motion that is, the rate of motion of the visible stars across the background of more distant stars.

This means that the transit method can be used on fainter and more distant stars, increasing the volume of space that can be searched for planets by a factor of more than 10,000.

But Peterson thinks that reverberation mapping is more accurate because it examines gas next to the hole instead of the movement of more distant stars.