Word: fainted
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...achievements. The primary detectors of the scientific instruments on both telescopes have to be kept as cold as possible to be able to obtain high-resolution data while they make their observations. If the instruments or their surroundings reach higher temperatures, then they start to emit infrared themselves, swamping faint emissions from cool celestial objects. That means operating at temperatures of minus 272.7 degrees Celsius (522.9 degrees Fahrenheit), just 0.3 degrees above absolute zero. To do that, they use a cryostat, a giant bottle filled with more than 528 gallons (2,000 L) of liquid helium, which evaporates...
...recording took place in or around 2000. Members of his family say even they were unaware that this was taking place. The recordings were on cassettes - mostly Peking opera and kids' music - that had been lying around the house. Zhao methodically noted their order by numbering them with faint pencil marks. There were no titles or other notes. The first few recordings were of discussions with friends. But most were taped alone, and Zhao apparently read from a text he had prepared...
...Anyone who has gazed at the bright sliver of a crescent Moon in clear skies has probably also noticed that the dark side is not entirely dark. The faint glow rounding out the Moon is earthshine: light from the bright day side of Earth shining on the night side of the Moon. Scientists have studied earthshine for decades - but Langford, along with her colleagues at Melbourne and Princeton Universities, decided it would make a perfect test case for detecting oceans and landmasses on a faraway alien world...
...Hopeful astronomers are looking toward a NASA mission called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, or TPF - a space-based planet-imaging telescope capable of picking out the faint light of small exoplanets that would otherwise be lost in the glare of their own suns (almost all the exoplanets found so far have been detected indirectly). "Obviously," says astronomer Eric Ford, of the University of Florida, "we're anxious for TPF to be launched...
...While mortgage losses show faint signs of moderating, banks still have a lot of credit-card ugliness to work through. At JPMorgan Chase, card services was by far the worst-performing division, with a loss of $547 million. When Whitney asked CEO Jamie Dimon if the business would return to profitability this year, his answer was a succinct "No." At Citi, "credit-card losses seem to be breaking their historical correlation with unemployment," CFO Kelly said. That is, credit-card losses normally rise with the unemployment rate. Now they're rising faster...