Sentence examples for small and faint from inspiring English sources

He compared them with globular clusters (both in the Milky Way Galaxy and in the Magellanic Clouds) and concluded that they were too small and faint to be normal globular clusters.

Since these planets are expected to be small and faint compared to their sun, spotting them is tricky with existing ground-based optical telescopes.

But in eight cases, they found nothing, while the ninth was small and faint, the team reported in the 1 May issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

In Jupiter's case, four of these moons are large and bright while the rest are small and faint.

The phenomenon is called lensing because it often magnifies the images of distant objects that would otherwise be too small and faint to be visible.

In the control, small and faint droplets were mainly lining the hepatocyte margins).

On Tuesday night there was a proper but very brief demonstration, a candlelight vigil for people mauled, and the three demonstrators killed, in last month's police riots, but since then things have dwindled down to a few small and faint-hearted episodes of chanting, and some awkward efforts at marching, by groups of Muslim women.

The first renal biopsy performed in January 2006 showed focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, foci of tubular atrophy, mild interstitial inflammation and fibrosis, normal arterioles and small vessels and faint focal mesangial IgM deposits by immunofluorescence, with no abnormalities in juxtaglomerular apparatus morphology.

This led him to wonder about life on planets around red dwarf, or "M," stars, which are slightly smaller and fainter than the Sun (and not presently included on the target lists of SETI astronomers) but that are prone to more frequent flares.

Astronomers have for the first time discovered a dwarf galaxy that has a spiral structure, like our own Milky Way, albeit much smaller and fainter.

One is sunlike, while the other is smaller and fainter.