Fainter

Other innovations developed at Imperial include a computer game in which children aim at targets that become fainter and fainter until they can only be pinpointed by acoustic cues.

The dramatic outline grows fainter with each work, but the accuracy of behavioral observation and the quality of empathy seem only to deepen.

The stellar material can also be seen as fainter wisps near the cavity’s interior.

A James Webb Space Telescope image showing the spectrum of light from objects in the Orion Nebula, known as Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, among some of the fainter lines.

Astronomers recommend giving your eyes at least 15 minutes to adjust to the dark to catch more of the fainter meteors - and don't look at your phone.

For fainter stars or clusters of stars, we have analogous techniques (such as looking at the relative strengths of various emission or absorption lines) that can reveal their compositions as well.

Saturn will be the fainter pinpoint of light to Jupiter’s right.

The top bank was thinner and fainter with a nice curved shape but without rays.

Walawender said there is “a sort of contest going on”, with the comet getting easier to see as it gets higher up in the sky away from the sunset, “but it’s getting fainter at the same time.

Webb's sensitivity enables scientists to see fainter stars and a higher density of background stars.

To get the best views you will want to head outside after the moon sinks below the horizon, so there is no glare blocking the views of the fainter meteors.

A companion, Rigel B, is 500 times fainter than the supergiant Rigel A and visible only with a telescope.

After that time its distance will begin to increase and it will become fainter, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's sky for the next 210,000 years.

As the track progresses, the song becomes fainter and the news report louder.

Because of this, the brighter star is called the primary and the fainter one is called the companion.

Cruithne, having a maximum near-Earth magnitude of +15.8, is fainter than Pluto and would require at least a convert reflecting telescope to be seen. citation citation Cruithne is in a normal elliptic orbit around the Sun.

Curtis noticed that these novae were, on average, 10 magnitudes fainter than those that occurred within our galaxy.

Discovery and observations Discovery image of Adrastea, taken on July 8, 1979, by Voyager 2. Adrastea is the fainter dot, in the very middle, straddling the line of the Jovian rings.

Fainter bluish or purplish areas may be visible between the yellow brushes (see illustration).

He had extraordinarily sharp eyesight, allowing him to see magnitude 7.5 stars with the naked eye, about four times fainter than visible to normal eyes.