Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult enumeration of a mass of tiny specks on a photographic place, the Harvard astronomers estimate that there are about 10,000 objects in the cluster between the brightest stars, about 18th magnitude, and the dimmest that have yet been counted, about 19.5 magnitude. How many stars there are fainter than this has not yet been estimated...
...Found Fainter...
...methods of measuring light. He finds, for instance, that the sun in 26.54 magnitudes brighter than the star Capella--that is, over thirty billion times as bright. "His measures for both the Sun and the Moon are appreciably different from the conventionally accepted values, for he finds the sun fainter and the moon brighter...
...disappearing on Christmas Eve. On Christmas night there were new sodium lines. "I had to leave them to come here," said Dr. Cherrington. "I don't know what has been going on up there since." Some 40 novae have been found since 1900, but they were all much fainter and farther away than Gamma Cassiopeiae...
...almost inaudible whine, fainter than a mosquito, rose to my ears from the back axle. Only harsh critics would have heard...