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With a little imagination many other animals and heroes and beautiful women can be found hidden among the fainter stars.

and if, in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself- it would have been no longer Pearl!

But the Nightingale's voice grew fainter, and her little wings began to beat, and a film came over her eyes.

When winds are blowing hard, the radar echoes are fainter, giving a measure of how strong the wind is blowing over the oceans.

The limiting magnitude is directly related to aperture, where larger apertures allow you to see fainter stars.

The stars grew fainter and the sky, shrouded by a murkiness that could have been clouds or mist, seemed much higher than before.

What both groups found was that the light from distant supernovae was fainter than predicted.

My sister fainter and it was a minute or two before we could bring her round.

Much of the diffuse glow comes from fainter stars that cannot be individually distinguished by Hubble.

The light from the flashlight became fainter and fainter as it ran out of battery.

Some of the starlight still gets through, easily obscuring planets that are millions of times fainter than their parent stars.

It is neater, he says, to have organisms that glow brighter, rather than becoming fainter, as the environment becomes more toxic.

The central planetary nebula nucleus (PNN) or white dwarf central star is the fainter of these two stars.

In the midst of a losing neuron duel, subjects could often turn the tide by focusing hard on the fainter image, Cerf says.

Stars with less mass than the sun are smaller and cooler, and hence much fainter in visible light.

Children do, but once we grow up, life becomes a burden and a chore, and the music grows fainter.

In this deep, wide telescopic view, fainter filaments clearly extend below and to the left of the bright crescent region.

The rings are presently tilted nearly edge-on to our view and the brighter planet is overexposed to record details of the fainter comet.

A dense plume flows east from the Wallow Fire in Arizona, with a fainter plume rising from the Horseshoe 2 fire in the south.

That will help spot the fainter galaxies, Robertson says, eliminating the need for extrapolation.

The light from an elliptical galaxy is brightest in the center and gradually becomes fainter toward its outer regions.

Astronomers rate the brightness of stars by a system of numbers called magnitudes. The fainter the stars , the greater the number they are .

Their sniffers ran on overdrive for several hours following the injection. And the rats could detect fainter scents, too.

Fainter markings, called shadow stripes, sometimes show up between the black stripes (1).

The central bright portion of the outer image has been masked to reveal fainter extended structures.

The X-rays reveal hundreds of young stars in the central cluster and fainter clusters on either side.

Meanwhile, the risk of catastrophic impact continues to grow ever fainter.

This is similar to a standard candle appearing fainter at greater distances (left-hand illustration).

With every second that passed, her cries became fainter and fainter.

The detection of the second, fainter tail, however, was asurprise to the scientists.

To the end, in a rough and ever-fainter whisper, he condemned it.

so any rise in prices has a fainter "wealth effect" than in Britain, say, where 66% of homes are owner-occupied.

This will make our box much fainter and give some depth to the two boxes, making one seem more important and imposing than the other.

That picture HAD got no fainter with the lapse of months.

At first, the hike was easy, but gradually, the trail became fainter and finally disappeared.

The sounds of music grew fainter in the distance.

The image has been color-coded so that brighter stars appear white, and fainter stars, red.

The planet recovered in the NICMOS data is about 100, 000 times fainter than the star when viewed in the near-infrared.

And as we get farther away, the sound gets fainter and fainter.

The sounds of music grew fainter in the dista nce.

He's gonna faint. He's a fainter.

It can also see objects ten times fainter than previous surveys.

To become gradually fainter; dwindle: